Members of the Cypress Festival Committee at their scheduled meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 21 organized to set plans in motion for the 2015 Cypress Community Festival celebrating the anniversary of the incorporation of the City of Cypress in July 1956.
This year will mark the 35th Annual Community Festival, which will be held on Saturday, July 25, at Oak Knoll Park immediately following the Cypress 5k/10k Run/Walk.
The Cypress community can be proud that its festival is the largest single-day event of its kind in Orange County, annually attracting tens of thousands of visitors to enjoy live entertainment, arts and crafts booths, a car show, vendor booths, kids rides, a chili cook-off and salsa competition, and a pancake breakfast.
The Festival Committee is made up of individual volunteers and civic groups. The civic groups include the Cypress Area Chamber of Commerce which is in charge of commercial vendor booths, the Friends of Cypress Parks & Recreation who is organizing the car show, chili cook-off and salsa competition as well as the Cypress Kiwanis who is the untiring flippers of pancakes and sausage patties.
The first step in organizing for this year’s huge anniversary was to nominate and elect a slate of new officers. The new officers are Chair Todd Seymore, Vice-Chair Wanda Slade, Treasurer Lynn Adams and Secretary Maria Daniels.
Volunteers are needed to work on the following committees:
- Development of Festival Sponsors, chaired by Lynn Adams and Wanda Slade
- Booths and Vendors, chaired by Wanda Slade
- Entertainment, chaired by Jon Ramos
- Public Relations, Social Media, and Festival Website, chaired by Shelley Henderson
- Coloring Contest, chaired by Maria Daniels
- Volunteer Coordination, chaired by Marie Chance
If you would like to volunteer to help the Festival Committee, or you have questions, please email to info@cypressfestival.com or visit www.CypressFestival.com
The next scheduled meeting of the Festival Committee is on Feb. 18 at the Cypress Senior Center located at 9031 Grindlay St. in Cypress. Meetings are open to the public, and those interested in volunteering are encouraged to attend.