Volunteers from the Quincy Fire Department, including mascot Sparky, make their traditional journey up Main Street. See if they will make an appearance this year. Registration is due this Friday, July 22 for the Saturday, July 30 annual fair parade. File photo
Crowds lined Main Street in Quincy to see everyone who entered this year’s Plumas-Sierra County Fair Parade sponsored by the Quincy Chamber of Commerce on Aug. 11.
It’s become a decades old tradition that Quincy resident David Adrian starts the parade with the firing of the gun powder-laced anvil that creates a large attention getting boom. It’s said that Adrian brought the tradition to Plumas County from Weaverville where it was used to start their annual Fourth of July festivities. At the time Adrian moved to Plumas County he was a business teacher at Quincy High School. He later passed the state bar exam and opened his law offices.
Another tradition following the firing of the anvil — the California Highway Patrol guides the first of the parade participants, this year the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3825 with Alan DeWolf, Marty Byrne, Russell Jennings and Robert Turcott.
The Quincy Chamber of Commerce noted that without the assistance of many volunteers this parade would not have happened.
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Parade winners
Boy Scouts Troop 151 and Pack 151 joined this year’s entries in the Plumas-Sierra County Fair Parade held Aug. 11 in Quincy.
Division: Float
Category: Club or Organization
1st: Indian Valley Museum
2nd: Feather River College
3rd: QHS Cheer Squad
Division: Float
Category: Commercial
1st: Diamond Mountain Casino & Hotel
2nd: Quintopia Brewing Co.
Division: Float
Category: Individual or Family
A parade isn’t a parade without plenty of royalty. From left are this year’s Miss Lassen County Court with Becky Struthers serving as Ambassadress of Susanville, Gracie Claypool, Miss Lassen County and Princess Ariana Miranda.
1st: Lori Harner
Division: Bands
Category: 1 to 5 Players
1st: Face the Music Studio
Division: Bands
Category: 6+ Players
1st: Quincy Music Program
Division: Novelty
Category: Individual
1st: Nina Peters
Division: Novelty
Showing off the Plumas County Sheriff’s Office’s new Razor all-terrain vehicle are Sheriff Greg Hagwood behind the wheel and the new Quincy area CHP Commander Eric Egide.
Category: Group
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1st: Beautiful Feet Dance Company
2nd: Plumas Bank
3rd: Boy Scout Troop 130
Division: Horse
Category: Fancy Dress
1st: Rosemary Balbiani
2nd: Rylie Botts
Division: Horse
Category: Novelty
1st: Kristen Johannsen
Division: Motor Vehicles
Members of Beautiful Feet Dance Company, a faith-based group, bounce and jump their way up Quincy’s Main Street in this year’s parade.
Category: Commercial Vehicles
1st: Sierra Pacific Industries
2nd: Gordon Peard Trucking
3rd: Mike Curran Trucking
Division: Motor Vehicles
Category: Special Interest Vehicle
1st: CHP in their classic Buick
2nd: Ethan Fiolka and Siegfried Fiolka
3rd: Bob Browne and Skye Browne
Division: Motor Vehicles
Category: Classic Vehicles
1st: Feather River A’s
2nd: Will Taylor
3rd: Sierra Cascade Street Rodders
Sweetheart of the Mountain Grace Bristol of Portola is one of many royal figures to grace this year’s parade.
Lady knight Kristen Johannson arrived from Nevada to participate in the parade riding her faithful Friesian Doeke van Hee.
Members of the Feather River College athletic teams made an impressive showing along with their Golden Eagle mascot during last year’s fair parade. There are three plans for this year’s athletic competition, with a decision planned for July 17. File photo
No one seemed to mind that a tractor pulled John Hardgrave’s 1906 stage and not the four horses used in the old days when the stage ran between Greenville and Beckwourth. It took several years for members of the Indian Valley Museum to restore the stage. The parade entry called attention to the upcoming Frontier Day in Taylorsville on Aug. 25.
The Street Drum Corps presents some serious drumming as they make their way up Main Street in Quincy.
Quincy High School’s Cheer Squad warm up for the 2018-19 season. This year, eight seniors, six juniors, three sophomores and four freshmen are ready to cheer for their teams.
Employees at Sierra Pacific Industries in Quincy accompany this year’s entries as they passed out mini blue and white beach balls to all the kids along the parade route.
Rosemary Balbiani, the 2018-19 California High School Rodeo Queen for District 1, rides along with Rylie Botts, the Indian Valley Riding and Roping Club Silver Buckle Rodeo Queen.
Was it a lime green and white coyote or a wolf that showed up to walk in this year’s parade? Children seemed to just love him.
This is one of several mascots or characters to appear in this year’s Plumas-Sierra County Fair Parade.
Clearly, the driver of this beauty has a lot of work ahead in restoring this entry with the Feather River A’s. He didn’t seem to mind adding a little artwork to the paint job.
Johnny McDonald of Face the Music Studio is seen with one of the Bombastic Strings members representing the Van Pelt Family. They provided some lively fiddlin’ music and energy to this year’s lineup.
One thought on “Spectators line Main Street for 2018 Fair Parade”
It was a fun Parade and you’ve posted some great pictures!!!