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City
of Elgin
310 North Main St.
P.O. Box 591
Elgin, Texas 78621
Office: (512) 281-5724
Fax: (512) 285-5962
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12th
Annual Juneteenth Festival
June
10th & 11th
2011
This
year is the 12th Annual Elgin Juneteenth Celebration. A milestone
in history for Elgin. We have many things to celebrate and commemorate and to
be thankful. Our town has come a long way to becoming more diversified
and working toward being a city of “Unity”. Our Juneteenth
mission is “Let’s put Unity back into Community”.
Our celebration has many activities and everyone is welcome. Please
join us in our celebrations and help us make our Juneteenth Celebration
the best in Texas!
The Juneteenth Pageant will be May 20 & 21
and includes three pageant categories –
Miss
Juneteenth, Little Miss Juneteenth and Little Miss Princess,
ranging in age from 6-22. Each category will have two runners-up
and a variety of prizes and trophies will be awarded. There
will be plenty of entertainment that you won’t want
to miss. Everyone is eligible to participate
Information Contact – Elsie Williams (512) 281-6322)
or email elwms2001@yahoo.com
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Juneteenth Pageant
May
20 & 21
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Juneteenth
Parade & Celebration
June 10th and 11th
Friday night has a street dance on Depot Street with hip hop,
blues, R&B, zydeco, and music for all ages. We dance till
midnight. Veteran’s park has booths with all types of vendors...BBQ,
Fish Fries, T-Shirts, Jewelry, etc.
Saturday morning is our annual parade beginning at Booker T Washington
Elementary and ending at Veteran’s Park. We then meet at
the gazebo and have opening ceremonies with the last of the Buffalo
Soldiers. That starts a day of celebrations and commemoration.
A Car Show with cool, vintage cars will be on display, music in
the gazebo, food vendors, bingo/raffles and let’s not forget
the kiddy area.
Registration for the parade please contact Bettye Lofton (512)
963-2721 or email bettylofton@prodigy.net
Vendor booth rental or information regarding the “Juneteenth
Celebration in the Park” please contact Eloise Wright (512)
281-5838 / Pauline Jackson (512) 281-4978 / Debbie Lundrigan (512)
229-8100 or email ewright23@austin.rr.com
rdprose@sbcglobal.net
We are always looking for new members
including our youth. The meetings are at 7pm on the 4th Tuesday
of every month. They are held at the 1st National Bank conference
room, located on US Hwy 290. Everyone is welcome to join and
if you don’t want to be a member, we do need volunteers
and sponsors. If you would like to become a member, volunteer
or sponsor of the Elgin Juneteenth Organization please contact
Elaine Joiner (512) 285-6321, zentumbler@aol.com or Coach Bishop
Mayes (512) 303-3608.
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