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Four days of fun forthe whole family…

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Ventura Seaside Highland Games

October 11-12, 2014

www.seaside-games.com

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Ventura Seaside Highland Games Returns October 11th & 12thThe Volunteer Crew of the Seaside Highland Games is preparing to welcome you to the Ventura County Fairgrounds for their TWELFTH straight Festival this October. The dates are October 9, 10, 11 & 12 and the planned activities will keep you moving all four of those days!

The big weekend is October 11 & 12 on the Fair-grounds, of course, but leading up to that are the Second Annual Seaside Open Golf Tournament on Thursday and the Single Malt Whisky Tasting and the renown for miles around “A Scottish Evening” event on Friday! Form your foursome now and plan to tee off with the ranks at Los Olivos’s Scottish-style links course in a shotgun start that Thursday morning. A day dedicated to golfers and just golfers will allow you time to take in ALL the weekend’s happenings without being rushed.

Things will be a-buzz Friday at the Four Points by Sheraton Ventura Harbor Resort where plans will be in place for the 5 PM Single Malt Scotch Tasting event and the 6:30 Scottish Evening. Some of the industry’s premier Scotch suppliers and Brand Ambassadors will be presenting a wide array of Single Malts for you to taste and savour as you mingle with friends in a casual cocktail-like setting in the room otherwise occupied by Sheraton’s Alexander’s Restaurant.

The overflow crowd will then fill the Sheraton Ball-room for a fine buffet supper, live entertainment by a lead weekend entertainer and the presentation of Sea-side’s Famous Scottish Fashion Show. Fashions ranging from haute couture to more accessible items from fine Vendors at the Festival and the models are your friends and loved-ones! A silent auction is a very special part of this evening where you may take home a piece to complete just the right look! And a bottle of fine Scotch will be up for grabs, too!

Saturday morning before most of you will think of coming out, the bands, the dancers and the athletes will all be gearing up for a long day of their respective competitions. We try hard not to overbook but Sea-side’s popularity has brought large numbers of talented competitors, hoping to go away with trophies, schol-

actiVitieS:

THURSDAY• 2ndAnnualSeasideOpenGolf

Tournament

FRIDAY• SingleMaltWhiskyTasting, -5PM,FourPointsbySheraton

VenturaHarborResort• “AScottishEvening”,6:30

PM,intheBallroom- BuffetSupper- FashionShow- LiveEntertainment- SilentAuction

SATURDAY• OpeningCeremonies,noon• Allday...

- LiveCelticentertainmenton3stages

- Athleticcompetitions- ScottishFiddlecompetitions- ClanCurrieHarpGlen- Dancecompetitions- HarpPettingZoo- PlentifulCelticfood- Fabulousvendorssellingall

sortsofmerchandise

SUNDAY• DrumMajorCompetition• SingleMaltWhiskyseminars• Allday...

- MoreliveCelticentertain-menton3stages

- MoreAthleticcompetitions- Genealogy/History- MoreDancecompetitions- HarpPettingZoo- MoredeliciousCelticfood- Moreuniquevendorsand

merchandise

arships and prize money—and every year the numbers keep rising! Don’t worry, though, you will see a full array of events being ar-ranged for your en-joyment throughout the day, both days!

Saturday around noon comes the ever-popular Open-ing Ceremonies and Grand Parade. Come early for that to secure a seat and, if you are not in it, you will be sure to catch the heart-thumping band and clan contingencies as they march by so close, you could touch them! ALL activities come to a halt the grounds over for this event and then resume to their full capacity at the conclusion. continued page 16

On the Pacific Coast just 50 miles north

of Los Angeles.

Friday Evening at SeasideBefore buckling down to the serious Scottish Games business on

the Fairgrounds Saturday and Sunday, we offer a time of relaxation,

fun, food and fellowship. Come to the Four Points by Sheraton in

Ventura Harbor on Friday, October 10 to have a wee dram with us at

the Single Malt Whisky Tasting. Five o’clock the pouring begins and

doesn’t stop until the evening’s next event, the “A Scottish Evening”

affair at 6:30 just across the hall in the Sheraton’s big ballroom.

Starting off with a wonderful buffet supper, you will dine with friends

old and new and be entertained by some of the weekend’s top

performers and treated to the beauty and style of a Scottish Fashion

Show! It isn’t just all kilts

and sox anymore! See haute

couture fashions and many

items available from Games’

vendors on the weekend! See

you there for all the fun!

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A few highlights…First, is that one of our wonderful Vendors inquired about the possibility of creating a Tea Room on the grounds and serving tea (and coffee too) along with their products. What are their products? WELSH CAKES of course! Joe and Denise Carbone aka The Welsh Baker have the idea that by providing a hot beverage and a place to sit plus some of their very yummy baked goods (much more than the amazing Welsh Cakes), our Games guests will enjoy the surroundings more and take a break from the non-stop action outdoors. The Welsh Bakery Tearoom will be inside beside their Vendor stall and directly across from the Celtic Spring Stage! So you will have a little music with your tea! Try it, I’m sure you will love it!

Now, from the sublime to the...well, a delightfully fun competition. How about a HAGGIS EATING CONTEST?? Yes, we have decided that this is something Seaside needs in the worst (wurst?) way!! Charles Lamb, maker of fine haggis (the Original “Oatmeal Sav-age”) has consented to sponsor a Seaside Highland Games Haggis Eating Contest!! He has done this for years and it is about time we at Seaside got on the bandwagon (or the Offal Truck).... So, if you are the determined man or lady you think you are and....have a stomach of iron, come on out and give it a try!! There are PRIZES to be won and there are rules--of course there are rules--that will be explained to you at contest time. In the Seaside Food Court at times to be announced. You will never forget the experience!

Oh, one more thing: Our friend Tooti Bevill has just contacted us to say that she will be bringing her highland cattle back to Seaside again this year!! This is exciting news for all you youngsters and a few older city slickers who have never seen cows up close and personal. But these are not just any cows--they are, in the vernacular, “HEELAND COOS”, the shaggy horned beasts found in abundance in the braes and beside the Hee-land lochs in Scotland. Tooti generously shares her lovely beasts with all who happen by and even marches with them in Saturday’s Grand Parade! You don’t want to miss this!!

family fun

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Don’t miss the athletic competitions while you are at that end of the Fairgrounds where the Highland Heavies, the 805 Heavies, the Big Boys, will show how it’s done both at home and abroad! Hammers, weights, sheafs and cabers—ALL get tossed by men and women athletes alike! A show like no other you won’t want to miss!

Clan Row encompasses so much—be sure and check the Scottish Fiddle

9OCT

Join us for a great day at the Olivas Links Golf Course!

!Oilvas Links 3750 Olivas Park Drive Ventura, CA 93001 !FEE: $60 (SIGN UPS AND PAYMENTS DUE BY 10/1/14) PRICE INCLUDES: GREEN FEE

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Send Checks to: John Origer (Treasurer) (checks payable to: Seaside Highland Games 23406 Gilmore St, West Hills, CA 91307 joriger@gmail.com (818)398-2668

2ND ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT

11:30 TEE

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PRIZES!

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CLOSEST TO THE PIN

LONGEST DRIVEFor more information…Contact John & Nellie at SeasideChief@aol.com or call 818-886-4968.

competitions, see and experience the Clan Currie Harp Glen and “Pet-ting Zoo” (don’t worry, they won’t bite) and, on Sunday, be sure and check out the Drum Major Competition on the green. Ray Pearson’s Single Malt Scotch Seminars are avail-able to you, as are the plentiful Celtic food and quality merchandise vendors in the Shopping Halls and spilling out onto the grounds.

Dance of all sorts—Highland at the first stage as you enter the grounds and Scottish Country Dance in McBride Hall along with a variety of surprise performers, too! The Children’s Glen across the way is a place where the wee ones will want to spend some time. Well worth it, folks, as these fine volunteers bring all sorts of activities right down to your child’s needs and abili-ties.

Grab a Games t-shirt and program either on your way in or out and you will remem-ber your experience well until it’s time for Festival #13!

Thanks and see youin October!

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Volunteers Needed The Seaside Highland Games is a 501(c) (3) non-profit corporation and is totally run by volunteers. Come out and help us, work for a few hours and spend the rest of the day enjoying the festival. If you can help on Saturday or Sunday, October 11 and 12, just e-mail Nellie at SeasideChief@aol.com and advise of your availability!

It is always fun!

LiVe entertainment… The Alex Beaton Stage (Main Street Center Stage)

• Browne Sisters and George Cavanaugh• Men of Worth from “up north”

Celtic Spring Stage (indoors)

• Celtic Spring • Hidden Fifth• Bows & Toes

Celtic Rock Stage• 1916• The Ploughboys

children’s glen

Three stages filled with the best professional Scottish/

Celtic/Irish entertainers to be found will match your ev-

ery mood. The Alex Beaton Stage, the Main Street Cen-

ter Stage, will highlight the Browne Sisters and George

Cavanaugh and the very excellent Men of Worth from

“up north”. The indoor Celtic Spring Stage will present,

who else but Celtic Spring themselves along with Hid-

den Fifth and the very fine Bows & Toes. Then, way at

the far end of Main Street—our Clan Row—is the Celtic

Rock Stage where the slightly more raucous 1916 and

The Ploughboys will let loose with some fun and enter-

taining riffs!

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ontest A fun-filled

weekend for the whole family!

Ventura County Fairgrounds • Ventura , CAOctober 11 & 12, 2014

1916 • The Ploughboys • Men of WorthThe Browne Sisters & George Cavanaugh

Ce l t ic Spr ing • Hidden F i f th • Bows & Toes

Whisky Tasting & “A Scottish Evening” Friday @ Four Points Sheraton

www.seaside-games.comor call John&Nellie @ 818-886-4968

Great Entertainment on Three Stages

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Ventura County Fairgrounds • Ventura CA

The Premier Scottish Festival on the West Coast

Massed Bands & Gala Opening Ceremonies

Celtic Vendors Galore

Dart Competitions

Harp Circle

Sheepdog Demos

Children’s Glen

Thursday Golf Tourament

Dance Demos and...

“Large Men &Lovely Ladies

Throwing Stuff”