Crowning a Queen

2010 Toledo Cheese Days

2009 Cheese Days Queen Dorrie Brown creates drama at Thursday's Coronation.

Toledo knows how to "crown a queen"!    Once known as the "Patron's Party", the simple gathering at the Morgan Arts Center outside of Toledo is an additional event that adds a day to the Toledo Cheese Days.

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There is a prize after earning blisters while selling tickets in the rain. It is called Cheese Day Queen. Kaley Beaber sold over $1,200 in tickets to earn the title and a $250 college scholarship. What is more daunting is number of appearances the Beaber will make while representing Toledo over the next year; Something Beaber will take a lot of pride in doing.
The coronation of the Cheese Days Queen took place at the Morgan Arts Center in Toledo. A Thursday evening event began just short of a decade ago when it became known as the “Patron’s Party”. It is now an event to recognize all of the “big cheeses” and coronate the new queen according to Mike Morgan the owner of the facility.
Sharon Peterson reveled in introducing the princesses. The girls put in a lot of time and they all worked very hard”, she said.

The Malcolm Clark Band from the Greater Tacoma area entertained throughout the evening.

Emily Davis is playfully duped.

After the coronation of the Cheese Days Queen, the community served itself some beautiful food!

2010 Cheese Days Queen Kelsey Beaber

A complete collection of photos from the event are posted at GAP Photo

Local Parades Collection Available

 

Some of my favorite events each year to approach with a camera are parades. Each summer, there are four expressions of local personality within ten miles of my home. The displays create excellent fodder for artful photographic expression. A few of my favorite photos have been in circulation for a year or two and appeared in local publications, but I posted an expanded collection at the GAP Photo website.

Take a gander at the collection of photos of Cheese Days, Egg Days, The Funtime Festival and the Vader May Day Parade.

In the meatime, I look forward to this year community events.