SEQUIM — Record crowds swarmed the fields and streets of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley last weekend for the fifth annual Celebrate Lavender Festival.
“We’re comfortable with estimating 20,000 people showed up,” festival director Pat McCauley said Tuesday.
“Based on the number of festival buttons sold and reports from the downtown street fair and from the individual farms on the tour, that figure may be conservative.”
McCauley said approximately 9,000 festival buttons were sold for $5 each.
“Children under 12 were admitted free and many people who didn’t visit the farms just came to the street fair,” she said.
“The festival was a huge success,” said Toni Anderson, owner of Cedarbrook Herb Farm, one of the eight stops on the popular farm tour.
“We were really busy, too busy to count people,” she said. “It was packed, especially on Saturday.”
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