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Azalea Festival Pre-Party
The North Carolina Azalea Festival Organization hosted its Pre-Festival Party on Friday,
January 21, at the Hilton Wilmington Riverside. The Pre-Festival Party gets everyone in the
“Azalea Festival mood” every year, and this year there were more than 900 people in attendance.
The crowd enjoyed entertainment by the upbeat party band Sleeping Booty. Four
tickets were raffled off for The Avett Brothers, the recently announced headliners for the
Azalea Festival concert that will be held at UNCW’s Trask Coliseum on April 8. Major sponsors
of this year’s festival include the Hilton Wilmington Riverside, Progress Energy, Wachovia
Wells Fargo Company, and Coastal Beverage. All money raised at the event goes toward the
Azalea Festival, which starts April 6.
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WBM march 2011
By Molly Grennan | Photogra phy by Allison Br einer Pot ter
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1 Azalea Festival vice-president Donna
Cameron, Sabrena Baker, secretary Robby
Collins, office manager Alison Baringer
2 Cathy Raney, Donna Taylor, Venitta
Reeves 3 Ellis Hartley, Samantha Stokes,
Dalton Green, Kari Lee, John Green
4 Co-chair Brenda Dalrymple, chairperson
Sandee Spradley 5 Tracey Kellogg, Darrel
Erbe, Lindsey Champion 6 Jill Giuffre,
Teresa Wishon, Kristen & Nick Jupena, Terry
Ando 7 Gwyn & Reid Hardy, Marie Bartsch
8 Durwood Sykes, Alex & Maria Hall