TWENTIETH ANNUAL
GOLDEN GATE BASSET HOUND WADDLE 2018
4TH JULY, 2018

Thank you to all who came and helped us to raise much needed funds. We brought in around $11,000 gross with all the pledges, donations and raffle ticket sales! Here's a very short video clip for your enjoyment!



Waddle Picnic 2015

THIS YEAR WE ARE USING FIRSTGIVING FOR FUNDRAISING 

 

- for volunteer opportunities click HERE 

 

TSHIRTS - No event specific tshirts this year but we encourage you to wear any of our past shirts - or volunteer to get an orange volunteer shirt!
    
CheckIn/Registration will be AT THE PICNIC FIELD, Marion Park Baseball Field 8:30am - 9:30am.  Shuttle vans will take you back to the starting point.  
  • There will be a 'Registration' booth.  Pre-registrants can deliver their pledges and on-the-day registrants can pay their entry fees and deposit pledges.

Seraphim, Cherubim and Archangel members do not pay an entry fee but MUST still register. You will have received an email with the code to use.

Parade starts 10am - we need to be ready by 9:45am so we need a dedicated team of volunteers to come early to help set up the ball field (from 7:00am), handle registration (from 8:30am), decorate the vehicles at the starting point (from 8:30am), drive the shuttle vans (from 9am), pooped pup truck driver (move the truck to the parade route by 8:30am and drive it 'slowly' along the Parade route), act as Waddle contingent marshals, and help get us organized!  Email Addy at ggbassetlovr@hotmail.com if you can help


Waddle Tents

A FUNDRAISER FOR RESCUE

  • ENTRY $10 (one flat fee for the whole family this year) in advance, $15 on the day
  • SERAPHIM, CHERUBIM AND ARCHANGEL LEVEL MEMBERS ENTER FREE FOR ALL HOUNDS, BUT MUST STILL REGISTER... Watch for an email with the code to put in!
  • GGBR WILL CATER LUNCHES FOR A $5 DONATION
Online registration closes AT 12 noon, JULY 3, 2018.  

Drivers should drop off their families and dogs at (or close to) the Reichert parking lot and come to the field to register. If they park their car on the Lucky's lot, and get the shuttle back, that will help give more people a ride!

Please note, Basset Hounds only in the parade unless you have advance approval from GGBR.

PLEDGES, PLEDGES, PLEDGES PLEASE!  All the funds go to the same place...  vet care for the bassets we rescue!

PLEDGES ARE WELCOME UP TO AND INCLUDING WADDLE DAY, and for turning in pledges received after the event, up to August 1, 2018. IF YOU ARE GIVEN CHECKS AND CASH, PLEASE PUT THESE IN AN ENVELOPE LABELED 'WADDLE PLEDGES' (make sure your name/hound's name is on it also) AND HAND IN AT REGISTRATION OR DIRECTLY TO A BOARD MEMBER (Gloria, Gwen, JoAnn, Cindy or Addy).  

PLEASE NOTE: We will have at least one flatbed 'Pooped Pup Truck' this year for those of you who need it.  We ask that only disabled people ride the truck to make sure we have room for any dog that will need it. Physically able hound guardians should walk alongside the truck please. We will have extra water available to cool the dogs if we are waiting too long.  For those of you who prefer to go straight to the starting point, you can register/pay/turn in pledges on your return to the picnic field after the Waddle.  We have extra shade - TWO LARGE EVENT TENTS WITH OUR LOGO ON THEM, water and assistance on hand at the picnic field and will try to make sure you can eat lunch, buy raffle tickets and actually see the raffle drawn and still get away early.  

Waddle Parade 2015

TO AVOID COMPLAINTS FROM THE NOVATO PARADE COMMITTEE AND OTHER PARADE PARTICIPANTS - As we did last year, we WANT you to keep walking UNLESS the parade stops.  You are welcome to let your dogs walk along the sides of the pavement, so that passers by can pet and ooh and aah over the dogs.  BUT, we CANNOT hold the parade up. We get official complaints made every year, and we HAVE to abide by their rules, or risk not being able to parade with Novato again....  Instead, tell those who want to pet the dogs that they can come meet all the dogs at the Picnic.  Tell them to come get a hot dog!!

Remember, there are other groups in the parade with dogs and children and horses... all are suffering in the heat, and imagine being LAST in line!!  It sometimes takes so long for the last parade group to pass that the audience is beginning to go home... it's not fair to them if we hold the parade up, so I hope you understand.  It's also easier on your dogs' feet to keep moving on the hot asphalt.  

Volunteers still needed - this event is only as good as we can make it and we NEED YOU!!  Please contact ADDY DAWES, ggbassetlovr@hotmail.com (needs in bold below!):

  • Staffing Registration tables - two tables - alpha split, two or three people on each table taking pledges, selling raffle tickets and on the day registrations - at least SIX people!  
  • GOT!! Someone who is willing to wear the Hush Puppy costume, dance around at the beginning of the Parade and wave to the crowd during the Parade (you'll be riding on one of the trucks as it's far too hot to have you walk the Parade!) Thank you Rik Peake!!
  • Set up at the Marion Park Baseball Field from 7:00am - LOTS OF PEOPLE to help set up the various tables for the raffles, TShirts, inflating the Hush Puppy, helping put up our super new shade tents, EZUps and x-pens, ice the water and soda etc.  So much to do!!  WE HAVE SOME VOLUNTEERS, but always need more...  
  • At least TWO OR THREE strong people to position the inflatable HUSH PUPPY to get him blown up! Pick up would probably need to be around 7am!  WILL NEED HELP ON THE MORNING TO GET THE HUSH PUPPY BLOWN UP (WE HAVE A GENERATOR TO POWER THE PUMP, NOT ASKING YOU TO BLOW HIM UP PERSONALLY!) AND TETHERED TO THE GROUND SO HE DOESN'T FLY AWAY!
  • Same strong people needed to get the large tents erected. The video makes it look easy but I think a couple more people are needed to make sure they are put up safely.
  • Float decorators - for the "pooped pup truck" - at Reichert/Grant area at 8:00am and we need LOTS OF PEOPLE to help with this! The float will have haybales and we have some decorations... if you can bring bunting and anything red white and blue to hang on it, that would be appreciated!  EVERYONE AT THE START POINT NEEDS TO HELP WITH THIS PLEASE!  Starting 8:00am
  • SOMEONE to drive the 'furry' (minivan ferry), taking people from the baseball field back to the start of the Parade.  We need TWO volunteers as we'll have TWO vans!!  
  • DRIVERS FOR THE TWO FLAT BED TRUCKS that act as a float and a Pooped Pup truck. These volunteers need to drive the flat beds back to the feedstore to unload the haybales and leave the trucks at the storage field (not far away).  You will drive Gloria's car back from the storage field to Marion Park. 
  • VOLUNTEERS TO TAKE THE DECORATIONS OFF THE FLAT BED AT THE END OF THE PARADE - safely stow these for reuse next year.  Ten minute job on the street at the picnic field!!
  • HAYBALES for the pooped pup truck - do you have access to hay bales for loan so we don't have to rent them?  
  • A FEW PEOPLE to stay at the Baseball Field during the parade, to watch waddlers belongings, the raffle tables etc.
  • CHILDREN (or other volunteers) to carry the banner, or to walk at the front of the parade with the banner. We have a few lined up already, but if you know that your child would love to lead the bassets, let us know! We need a few children who are willing to hand out candy and flyers/cards telling people where to find us at the end of the parade  to those who express interest.
  • RAFFLE TICKET SELLERS - there will be a raffle, sometimes known as a Chinese Auction or Raffle, where people buy a number of tickets, then drop their tickets into containers relating to the gift baskets they want a chance of winning.  ONE HOUR EACH...
  • AT LEAST ONE PERSON to record the winning numbers from the raffles and the names of the people who win/what they won.
  • SEVERAL PEOPLE TO HELP SERVE LUNCH
  • LOTS OF PEOPLE to clean up the field at the end of the day - check that trash is picked up and we have left the area as we found it etc.   WE HAVE A GROUP OF PEOPLE.... ALWAYS MORE NEEDED!!
  • VIDEO CAPTURE OF PARADE - In past years we have been lucky enough to have wonderful little video clips of the GGBR contingent. Any professional videographers out there? We need someone to volunteer to be waiting on the sidelines as the parade passes, and to video the GGBR Waddle, plus take short segments at the field and at the staging area.  You can then join the end of the contingent for the rest of the parade down Grant Ave. If you can edit the video and produce several small segments for promotional purposes in addition to the full Waddle pass by, all the better. NEEDED!!!
There may be more to come as we continue to work on this year's Waddle event. We are going from strength to strength on this day and we want to continue to grow so we can get more hounds parading, and more funstuff to enjoy at the end of the parade!  NONE OF THESE JOBS WILL TAKE YOU AWAY FROM ENJOYING THE WADDLE AND PICNIC. 

RAFFLE PRIZES ARE WELCOMED... We do mostly gift baskets, IF YOU KNOW OF RESTAURANTS OR COMPANIES THAT WILL DONATE GIFT CARDS/ITEMS, OR IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOURSELF THAT WOULD MAKE A GOOD RAFFLE PRIZE or contribution to a basket, WE WOULD LOVE TO ACCEPT THEM!  BRING THEM ON THE DAY IF YOU CAN! 

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SEE YOU THERE!!