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Parade Float Winners
Best Originality – Shore Lodge and Whitetail Club (Shrek and friends) Best Theme Relevance – Toby’s Place (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) Best Décor – Hawk Construction and Property Services (Frozen) Best Team Spirit – Mountain Samba Dancers .
Shore Lodge still leads as parade returns
Shore Lodge and Whitetail Club’s Shrekthemed parade float claimed the prize for “Best Originality” in the 2023 McCall Winter Carnival Mardi Gras Parade held last weekend. The parade was cancelled in 2021 and 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but returned for this year’s Winter Carnival, for which the theme was “Fairy Tales, Folk Tales and Tall Tales.” The 2023 parade featured 36 floats and revamped judging that reduced the number of prizes from 11 to four, said McKenzie Kraemer, a McCall Area Chamber of Commerce spokesperson.
Tourists prefer current carnival format
Shorter, later carnival planned for 2024 causes angst Eric Miller pondered the future of the McCall Winter Carnival Snow Sculpture Contest as he examined a snow sculpture depicting trolls in front of DoneRight Management in McCall. Miller, 60, of Salem, Oregon, had just learned that the 2024 winter carnival will be moved to the end of February instead of beginning at the end of January.
Go bigfoot or go home
PHOTO BY CHELSEA TUTTLE/FOR THE STAR-NEWS Go bigfoot or go home McCall residents deliver top 2023 snow sculptures A campfire congregation of sasquatches at Café 6 Three 4 in McCall claimed the top prize for professional sculptors in the 2023 McCall Winter Carnival Snow Sculpture Contest. “Christmas at the Foots,” sculpted by McCall resident John Schulz, claimed the first-place award for the 2023 snow sculpting contest.
Recycling center to reopen Tuesday
The Valley County Recycling Center is set to reopen Tuesday after being closed for almost a month. A large baler that is used to compress and wrap recyclables for shipping broke down Dec.
Cascade to build its own city shop
All bids from contractors rejected The City of Cascade will build a new 2,400-squarefoot shop and act as the project manager after rejecting all bids submitted from contractors as too expensive. The city’s engineer Trevor Howard of Horrocks Engineering presented four bids that ranged from $750,000 to about $1.2 million to build a new structure near the city’s sewer lagoons south of Kelly’s Parkway in Cascade.