Boat and Pontoon Parade

 The Lake Miltona Association coordinates an Annual 4th of July pontoon and boat parade.  All members are invited to decorate their 'boat', register it, then follow a leader around a part of the lake to pass by judges floating stand.  First and second place awards are made for both catagories - distributed to winners later that afternoon. 

The 2011 Parade

The parade started at 1:00 on Sunday, July 3rd. There were two departure points, the East Public Access and the West Public Access.  Judges along the South Shore made two awards in each of two classes for pre-registered boats and pontoons:

  • Boat - 1st place Bill Townsend $75.00 - 2nd place Matthew Davis $25.00.
  • Pontoon - 1st place Randy Hansen $75.00 - 2nd place Julie Swanson $25.00 

The award winners' names are being engraved on a plaque which will be mounted on the wall of LJ's Restaurant in Miltona.  A slide show of many of the entrants is posted here, right click, then left click on open. 

  • A photo of the first place pontoon was too blurry to include - the decorations were updated from the 2010 2nd place pontoon shown in the next paragraph.  
  • If any viewer can identify the Bill Towsend boat in the slides, please send page number and quadrant to me, labenson@q.com, thanks! 

The 2010 Parade

The parade started at 1:00 on July 4th from both ends of the lake, meeting at the Judges boat in the middle of the lake.  Boat trophy winners were Paul Hamilton, 1st place and Ted & Kay Thull 2nd place.  Pontoon trophy winners were Lowell Benson's grandchildren, 1st place (far right photo below) and Randy Hansen, 2nd place (second from the left below.)

2010 Parade snapshot

 The 2009 ParadeDecorated pontoon

 The parade started at noon from Mike Wrobel's dock - 15855 Riedel Beach Road, progressing along the North shore of the lake to the East Boat Launch. Registration of both boats and pontoons was from 9 a.m. to 11:59.  Shown here is the first place pontoon winner, decorated by Lowell Benson's grandchildren.

The 2008 Parade

First place pontoon trophy went to the grandchildren of Lowell Benson.  The second place pontoon trophy was awarded to the Alice Odden family.  There were no boats registered for the parade. The parade route was along the South shore after leaving from Mike Wrobel's dock.  The parade ended just after the Judge's float along the Gold Coast.

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