The Captain Jeffries look-alike contest, Longest Beard/Mustache contest, and Ladies Hat contest are being moved to the Eiland Bandstand. All of the contests will still be held at 2 P.M. on Saturday, March 13, 2010.
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Come and get your tickets!
Tickets for the Old fashion barn dance are now available for purchase at the ZHS front office. Tickets are just $5 and the dance is open to the public. Come and get yours today!
And the winners are….
A joint effort between Main Street Zephyrhills and the Zephyrhills Chamber of Commerce earned Zephyrhills 2nd place in this year’s Pasco County Fair’s Community Exhibit. The exhibit featured Roberto Escobar’s design for the official centennial logo as its centerpiece. Be a judge for yourself and check out the photo below. Click the image for a larger view!
Zephyrhills Community exhibit - 2nd Place
Official Zephyrhills 100th Anniversary Logo Unveiled!
At the Zephyrhills City Council meeting on January 11th, 2010, the official logo of Zephyrhills’ 100th Anniversary was unveiled:
Roberto Escobar of RS Media Solutions donated his time (and talent) to create the official centennial logo.
You can see this logo on the new street banners up and down Fifth Avenue and on window stickers all around Zephyrhills.
If you’d like a window cling for your business or home, please contact the Main Street office at (phone removed) today!
Escobar's lovely family
Commemorative Crystal Ornament
The collectible ornament below is also available from Main Street Zephyrhills for just $25. Supplies are extremely limited, so call today and get your ornament before they’re gone! Call (phone removed) now!
Square Dancing at ZHS
photo credit: pchgorman
Founder’s Day is just around the corner. There’s a lot planned to celebrate Zephyrhills’ centennial, but what’s going on at Zephyrhills High School? A good old fashion Barn Dance, that’s what!
The Old-Fashion Barn Dance will be held on Friday, March 12 in the ZHS Activity Center. The dance is a fundraiser for the ZHS Chorus Program. The Chorus and Band will be performing at the Music Festival in Washington, D.C. in early April of this year. All proceeds from the Barn Dance will help the students raise money for the trip.
“The dance will help them do that, but it will also show folks how our Zephyrhills pioneers entertained themselves during the early years of the town,” said ZHS Chorus director and music teacher Louise Gore.
If you’ve never been to a barn dance before or even don’t even know what one is, you are in for a real treat! According to Louise, the dance will be run like the Tampa Friends of Old Time Dance run their events. There will actually be a caller teaching and calling the dances.
The dances, mostly line and circle dances, are some that were brought over from England, Ireland, Scotland, and France. Some of the dancers are called mixers because there are partner changes throughout. You get to meet everyone who came to dance that way!
“Think the Virginia Reel,” Louise said. “The dances are not that difficult, which makes them great for the whole family: everyone from elementary-school age to grandparents can do them!”
The event will start around 6:00PM and run until 10:00PM. Cookies and old fashioned lemonade will be available in the lobby during the dance. Entrance is only $5, and the event is open to the public.
The dance is almost like a warm-up for Founder’s Day and, like Louise said, will provide people with a different “date night” than they have seen in at least 60 years!!
Call for Founders’ Day Parade Entry Forms
Main Street Zephyrhills, Inc is calling for all Founders’ Day Parade applications. The parade will be held on Saturday, March, 13, 2010 at 10A.M. The forms must be returned by Friday, February 26, 2010. If you have any interest in participating in the parade, please fill out the entry form and return to: 5224 7th St. Zephyrhills, FL 33542. Click here for the entry form! On the entry form, please make sure indicate which decade your float is in: 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, or 2000.
Video Shout-Outs
As you know, Zephyrhills has a very important birthday approaching fast! What better way to celebrate her birthday than with a “Happy Birthday” shout out?
We are creating a compilation of video shout outs to Zephyrhills that will be featured on the official Zephyrhills 100th Anniversary website, zephyrhills100.com and will be posted to our Facebook page at facebook.com/zephyrhills100. The compilation will also be included in the time capsule that is being placed at Zephyr Park on March 14th, 2010.
If you want to participate, just make a short (60-seconds or less!) video answering the following questions: Who are you? How long have you lived in Zephyrhills? What is your fondest memory of Zephyrhills? Make sure you end your shout-out with “Happy Birthday, Zephyrhills!” Then just email either a .AVI or .MPG of your video to (email removed).
Visit the official Zephyrhills 100th Youtube Channel to see the format of the videos and what has already been uploaded!
Videos must be received no later than March 5th to be included in the time capsule, but we will accept videos all year long to add to the website!
New article about Founders Day at The Laker
From The Laker:
“We didn’t want to pick just one person to represent the entire city of Zephyrhills for the last 100 years,” Hatrick said. “Since the parade is divided by decades, we felt it would be best to pick one person to represent each decade. That seemed more fair and could help people learn the history of the city.”
Find out all about the Grand Marshall process and the Captain Jeffries look-a-like contest here: Zephyrhills has new plan for grand marshals.
Community Photographers Needed!
The weekend of March 12th – 14th will be Zephyrhills’ busiest weekend in 2010! Events are taking place at Zephyrhills High School, R.B. Stewart Middle School, Zephyr Park, and all up and down 5th Avenue. There’s no way just one or two people can cover all these events and make sure that the history of this historic event is preserved.
If you have a digital camera or video camera and would like to help, please contact Gary Hatrick today and let him know what event(s) you can cover. Email him at (email removed) or call him at (phone removed).
Zephyrhills 100th Anniversary: Colonist Article about 4th of July
4th of July Celebration A Grand Success, Zephyrhills Colonist-July 1912
Largest Crowd Attends Celebration that has ever been in Zephyrhills. Program began at 4:30 A.m. and Lasted until 10:30 p.m. Prof. Sanders and Col. A. S. Gangs Was principal Speakers of the Day.
The celebration at Zephyrhills, on the 4th, was voted by all who attended as complete a success as they ever witnessed, north, south, east or west and the person who was dissatisfied was not heard from. At early dawn, or just before, young American opened the days doings by marching through the principal streets, burning all the powder that he had been able to procure, and by the time he had the last grain fired, the people began to come in from all the country round, so as to be ready for the opening number of the program.
Judge Hunter’s Martial band, sounded the alarm on time, and the old soldiers firing squad, soon appeared with muskets on their shoulders, not quite so spry as they were fifty years ago, but just as proud. Commanded by Colonel F. R. Cox, that old hero of the Rapid Ann, they swung into line, closely followed by Major Charles E. Gibson’s squad of Florida National Guards with their latest improved implements of offense and defense and flanked by civilians, all marched to the G.A. R. Memorial hall, where the ceremony of hoisting “Old Glory” to her elevated perch at the top of their new 66 foot flag pole.
After the great crowd sang “America,” little Miss Gladys Geiger pulled the rope that raised the great symbol of freedom to its lofty heights assisted by Rev. E. F. Gray and President Sola E. Leekley of the W.R.C. This being complete, everybody went inside the great hall where patriotic songs and speeches were enjoyed until 11:30. Floyd A. Gibson acted as chairman of the meeting and Prof. J.W. Sanders and that old warhorse, Col. A.S. Bangs, regaled the audience with their usual silvery tongued oratory.
Dinner was announced and done justice to, and at 1:30 p.m. the sports under the supervision of C.H. McDonald and F.A. Gibson, was opened. The program was a long one and every number was carried out to perfection, lasting until 5 o’clock, when everybody went to supper. At 7:30, the orchestra opened the trouble, the first number being the Zephyrhills Cornet Band, 18 pieces, forming on the stage and singing, “Why don’t the band play Dixie, etc.” They have just received their instruments and were not yet in shape to play. The program was a good one and the house was filled to the doors. The day was ideal, the mercury not running above 82, and many was the assertions that a more pleasant day, both as to weather and program, had never been enjoyed.
When Zephyrhills starts out to do a thing, she never falls down.