115th Irrigation Festival leaps into its first weekend (**Gallery**)

SEQUIM — The first of a flood of Irrigation Festival events offered a swimmingly good time at Carrie Blake Park and downtown Sequim on Saturday.

Sequim’s 115-year-old party, the longest-running festival in Washington state, will continue next weekend with a Grand Parade through town, the Loggers Ball — new this year — as well as the Logging Show, Strongman Competition, fireworks and other activities.

The Sequim Irrigation Festival Family Picnic and Kids Day at Carrie Blake Park on Saturday offered a Touch-A-Truck display, face painting, bounce houses, models, crafts, dancers and musicians from the Aspire Academy and the Happy Tymer clowns, as well as food.

In downtown Sequim, vendors in the festival’s Arts and Crafts Fair laid out their goods on Bell Street near the Merchants Street Fair, while revelers enjoyed a maypole dance.

The Arts and Crafts Fair continues today, with vendors and live entertainment on Bell Street from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For more information about the festival — and its three dozen events — see www.irrigationfestival.com.

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