Float wins honors in annual festival
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WINCHESTER, Va. — Three wards in the Winchester Virginia Stake joined together to design, build and enter a float competition for the 79th Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival — for the third year — and won second place in the Communities Participation, non-professionally built category. More than 300,000 people attended the annual festival held in Winchester on May 6.
Missionaries from the Maryland Baltimore Mission, which includes the stake, distributed pamphlets and the "The Family: A Proclamation to the World."
The float, which was designed as a smiling locomotive, included the reminders of "Scripture Study," "Family Night," and "Prayer." Under the train's engineer were the words, "I Am a Child of God." A sign in the form of a smoky cloud from the locomotive included the words, "Helping Families Stay on Track."
Bishop William S. Butterfield of the Shenandoah Valley Ward acknowledged the tremendous work of ward members who led the float-building effort. Don Presnell, the ward mission leader, stated that more than 50 people from the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester and Berryville wards helped by constructing the float, decorating and delivering it to the parade site.
Bishop Butterfield, who waited by the float before the parade started, said that there were quite a few families — not known to be members of the Church — who stopped and asked if they could take a picture of their child or children next to the sign, "I AM A CHILD OF GOD."
