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RANGELEY – The Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum invites everyone to sign up for the Little Miss and Mister Wood Chip Contest and to enter a float in this July’s Logging Festival parade, part of the Logging Museum’s Logging Festival Days, July 23 and 24. Come celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Logging Museum Festival.
For the Friday, July 23 program at the Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal), Main Street, Rangeley, the Museum invites girls and boys, aged 6 to 8, to enter the contest and sing a song or recite a poem. Although no dance entries are accepted in the contest, children are welcome to exhibit dances and other activities during the evening program, if time allows. Every Wood Chip contestant receives a prize. The Museum can accept 5 to 6 girls, and the same number of boys. The winners will ride in the Little Miss and Mister Wood Chip float in the Logging Museum parade on Saturday, July 24th. In the winter, they will preside over the Giving Tree events: Little Miss Wood Chip becomes the Giving Tree Angel and Little Mister Wood Chip serves as Santa’s elf. Finally, in the 2011 Logging Museum parade, the winners will ride in the Giving Tree float.
Little Miss Wood Chip 2010 is Maya Cunningham, 7-year-old daughter of Alison and Mark Cunningham, Stoneham, MA, who sang “When you walk through the storm.” Little Mister Wood Chip is Cedric Wilford, 6-year-old son of Michael and Dena Wilford, Yorke, ME, the great-grandson of Sheila Yorke, Rangeley, He sang “Shoo-fly don’t bother me.”
The first Little Miss Wood Chip was Pamela Haley of Rangeley on July 26th, 1985.
For the Logging Festival parade, the Museum will have seven cash prizes in six different categories: Most Appropriate to the Logging Industry at ($100), Best Logging Truck at ($100), Most Entertaining at ($75), Most Original at ($50), and Most Humorous at ($25), and two “Best Youth” entries ($25 each).
Last year, prizes went to Green Thumb Landscaping & Property Care for their portable saw mill (Most Appropriate to the Logging Industry”); Mark Beauregard (Best Logging Truck”); Dennis and Nancy Henderson of West Paris for their barrel train ” (“Most Entertaining”); Rangeley Library 100th Anniversary (“Most original”); Dick Curley for the float “In M&H we trust” (“Most Humorous”); Little Miss and Mister Wood Chip Maya Cunningham and Cedric Wilford with Lewis Haley and his car (“Best Youth Float”); and to the Giving Tree Angel Lauren Farmer in her grandfather’s Rangeley fire truck (“Best Youth Float”).
The Logging Museum thanks all who participated in 2009 and invites them to return this year to celebrate the Festival’s 30th year and Rangeley’s biggest parade. To enter the Little Miss and Mister Wood Chip contest, call Becky Hill (864-5595) or Peggy Yocom (864-3421). To put a float in the parade, call Steve Richard (864-5595).
The Logging Museum, located on Route 16 one mile east of Rangeley, opens every Saturday and Sunday in July and August from 11am to 2pm and by appointment. The auction is July 3rd at 10am, and the Knit and Crafts Sale is July 17th at 9am. For more information, call President Ron Haines (864-5551) or the Richards (864-5595), or email Peggy Yocom at myocom@gmu.edu.
