No city celebrates Alaska Day like Sitka and no event is bigger than Sitka’s Alaska Day parade. But while spectators set up chairs and line up for candy, the party has already started just up the block.
Mt. Edgecumbe Yup'ik Dance Group. (KCAW Photo/Emily Russell)
Members of the Elks Lodge at the 2016 Alaska Day parade. (KCAW Photo/Emily Russell)
The Sitka Spruce Tips 4-H Club marching in the 2016 Alaska Day parade. (KCAW Photo/Emily Russell)
Employees from Seamart hand out apples and oranges at the 2016 Alaska Day parade. (KCAW Photo/Emily Russell)
Marchers had to line up an hour before the start of the 2016 Alaska Day parade. (KCAW Photo/Emily Russell)
The Sitka Studio of Dance staying dry in the 2016 Alaska Day parade. (KCAW Photo/Emily Russell)
Employees from Sitka National Historical Park lining up to march in the 2016 Alaska Day parade. (KCAW Photo/Emily Russell)
Margaret Stock and her campaign came to Sitka for the 2016 Alaska Day parade. (KCAW Photo/Emily Russell)
Nurses from Sitka had their own float this year at the 2016 Alaska Day parade. (KCAW Photo/Emily Russell)After receiving the anonymous judges’ report, Alaska Day Festival organizers awarded the following prizes of $150, $100, and $50, respectively, for entries in the 2016 Alaska Day Parade:
Civilian marching unit
1st Place- Blatchley Middle School Band
2nd Place- Seattle Firefighters Pipes and Drums
3rd Place- Sitka High School Band
Military marching unit
1st Place- USCG Air Station Sitka
2nd Place- USCG Cutter Maple
3rd Place- US Army Color Guard
Symbolic of 1867 Period
1st Place- Sitka Ninth Infantry
2nd Place- American Colony Singers
3rd Place- Festival Greeters and Re-enactors
Organization entry
1st Place- Sitka Studio of Dance
2nd Place- Athabaskan Dancers from Mt. Edgecumbe High School
3rd Place- 4-H Club
Theme award “Celebrating Nursing in the Last Frontier””
1st Place- Sitka Community Hospital – Early Nurses
2nd Place- Sitka Volunteer Fire Dept. Old Truck with Nurse
3rd Place- Sitka Community Hospital Long Term Care
Business Entry
1st Place- Baranof Island Brewing Co.
2nd Place- Wells Fargo
3rd Place- SeaMart
