Get ready for this years festival April 26th - May 1st, 2010. The festival committee wants you to be involved. This is a great opportunity to promote your business/organization and showcase our town!

Parade!
Consider being a part of our parade on Saturday, May 1st at 2 p.m. Professional floats are available to rent from an Indiana business. Walt Evans Decorators located in Brazil provides several local parades with great floats. Call them at 888-446-7621 or visit their website (www.paradefloatstuff.com/rentafloat.html). If renting is not an option consider building your own! It doesn't even have to be a float - walking units, musical units, balloons, costume characters or something specific to your business are great additions to our parade!  We want churches, service organizations and clubs also! Need an idea? Call us! You can contact our parade chairman Leandra Buechler at 812.865.4884 if you have questions.

Dress Up!
Get involved in the town wide clean up this spring. Take time to decorate your storefront, plant some flowers or pick up trash.... let's do our best to look our best for the community and visitors to the festival. Check the Progress Examiner for dates and times of the town wide clean up.

Website!
Our website gets lots of visits every month all year long. Event schedules, festival pictures, parade entry forms. posting forums and more at www.orleansdogwoodfestival.com. View and post detailed ads online for the annual town-wide yard sales.

Publicize!
We do our best to make sure information we have is accurate and included in festival materials. Please contact local newspapers and radio stations to let them know what your organization is doing - most of these announcements are free of charge. If you need a list of local media contacts please call.

Participate!
Did you know that the Orleans Dogwood Festival, Inc. is a registered not for profit organization? We rely solely on volunteers and donations to make the festival a success every year. When you attend festival activities such as the Phi Beta Style Show, Patrons Breakfast and carnival you not only support those groups, you support the festival! The committee is looking for new ideas and people to join us. Only with renewed interest and dedication to the Orleans Dogwood Fesitval can we continue to celebrate many more years of Dogwood History & Tradition.

Donate!
If you would like to make a monetary donation to the festival, please make check payable to Orleans Dogwood Festival and mail to Orleans Dogwood Festival, c/o Tara Jenkins, 263 W. Harrison St., Orleans, IN 47452.

Thank you!
Without your support we couldn't do it.