2023-2024 Warrens Cranberry Festival Royalty January Blog

 

Royal greetings!

 

We visited The Capital & Executive Residence in Madison. They were both decorated beautifully for the Holidays. We had a fantastic day and took lots of pictures with all the lovely Christmas trees.

 Our next event is the Westby Ski Jump in early February.

 We are excited for all the events to come and are honored to represent the Warrens Cranberry Festival!

 Yours truly,

 2023-2024 Warrens Cranberry Festival Royalty 

Queen: Annabelle Haun, Princess: Skylee Laakso, and Jr. Miss: Kiralynn Lakowske

 

Queen Annabelle & Princess Skylee
at the Executive Residence in Madison

2022-2023 Warrens Cranberry Festival Royalty February Blog

Royal greetings!

 

We enjoyed dress shopping with Nodji for our formals earlier this month. The gowns we chose are really pretty and we can’t wait to wear them to our future events.

 Queen Kendall attended the 100th annual Westby Ski Jump in early February. Before the event started, all the visiting royalty introduced themselves over the loud speaker. It was awesome watching the skiers take off and glide through the air and land at the bottom of the jump. The weather was great and the air was filled with excitement. 

 Our schedule is quieter through the winter months. We are looking forward to our busy upcoming parade season this summer.

 We are honored to represent the Warrens Cranberry Festival!

Yours truly,

 

2022-2023 Warrens Cranberry Festival Royalty

Queen: Kendall Murdock and Princesses: Abigail Beck and Makenna Roose

 

Queen Kendall at Westby Ski Jump

2019-2020 Warrens Cranberry Festival Royalty February Update

Royal greetings !

We are excited to share our latest events. On January 22nd we traveled to Wisconsin Dells for Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Trade Show. We walked around taking pictures and visited with the vendors. We watched the presentation to “Train Your Brain”. Following the presentation we attended the cranberry growers meeting and gave a short introduction and talked about our events. We took a picture with June Potter from the Cranfest Advisory Board, she was celebrating her birthday that same day.

On February 1st we attended the 97th Annual Westby Snowflake Ski Jump Tournament. We visited and gathered with all the other royalty for a group picture. We did introductions at the opening ceremony that kicked off the ski jump. We climbed the steps up the steep jump, some of us ventured all the way to the top. What a great view of the ski jumpers and the beautiful valley. We were able to watch some

pretty long jumps and also a couple wipe-outs. It was a fantastic day of at the ski jump and had a great time representing the Warrens Cranberry Festival.

Yours Truly,

The 2019-2020 Warrens Cranberry Festival Royalty

Queen: Lindsay Murdock and Princesses: Katie Carlson and Annabelle Haun

Here is a sneak peek of what’s ahead on our schedule:  Warrens Community Easter Breakfast, Alice in Dairyland Coronation, and Westby Syttende Mai.

Princess Katie, Queen Lindsay, June Potter, and Princess Annabelle

2019-2020 Warrens Cranberry Festival Royalty October Update

Royal Greetings everyone!

We are honored to represent the Warrens Cranberry Festival this upcoming year.

As the newly crowned royalty our first event was the Warrens Cranberry Festival. Princesses Annabelle, Katie and I, Queen Lindsay, went to Warrens on Thursday. We did an interview along with the Mayor of Tomah, Mike Murray, as well as filming a commercial with Nodji Van Wychen and her family. The rest of the Festival consisted of greeting vendors and meeting new people. Many of the festers were from different states and even different countries. Saturday we went on a marsh tour which for both Annabelle and Katie was their first time. The tour was very informative and we had an amazing tour guide. Even though Sunday was rainy we still had a great time at the Royalty Tea and parade. 

October 5th we attended Harvest Days at the Wetherby Cranberry Marsh. After the tour we put on hip boots and took pictures wading in the cranberry bed. We helped out by taking

pictures of the visitors and made sure nobody fell in. Once the weather starting getting bad we headed to the warehouse for warm apple cider and socialized with the visitors.  We ended our day with lunch at the Wisconsin Cranberry Discovery Center in Warrens and explored the museum downstairs. A fun day for all despite the bad weather.

We hope you enjoyed our adventures as much as we have!

Yours Truly,

2019-2020 Warrens Cranberry Festival Royalty

Queen: Lindsay Murdock and Princesses: Katie Carlson and Annabelle Haun.

 Here is a sneak peek of what’s ahead on their schedule: Tomah Holiday Parade, Sparta Holiday Parade,  and the Warrens Area Community Christmas Party.

Newly Crowned 2018-2019 Royalty

Warrens Cranberry Festival is excited to introduce 
the 2018-2019 Warrens Cranberry Festival Royalty

Queen: Cassandra Carlson
Princesses: Kendall Murdock & Sierra Steele

Cassandra is the 18-year-old daughter of Robert and Kristi Carlson. Cassandra is in the 12th grade at Tomah High School where she is a member of INTERACT, High School Rotary Club, Golf, Forensics, International Club, Class Officer, and Student Council. Cassandra volunteers at Chasing Daylight Animal Shelter, helps at Water into Wine Banquet, volunteers at Rotary Christmas Lights, and Purple Pinky for Polio. In her free time, Cassandra enjoys cooking, Yoga, reading, playing cards, board games, piano, painting, and hanging out with friends. 

Kendall is the 12-year-old daughter of Ryan and Samantha Murdock of Warrens and Layna and Nate Waege of Tomah. Kendall is in the 7th grade at Tomah Middle School. She volunteers at St. Mathews Church vacation Bible School. In her free time, Kendall enjoys soccer, spending time with family, being in the outdoors, and hunting. 

Sierra is the 14-year-old daughter of Ryan and Shana Steele, and is in the 9th grade at Tomah High School. She is a member of FFA, DECA, Hockey, rodeo barrel racing and pole bending, religious education classes, Vice President of Freshman Class of 2022, and on the Academic High Honor Roll. Sierra volunteers by being an alter server at church, participates in community service projects through clubs at school, and volunteers at the mobile food pantry. Her hobbies are horse-riding, babysitting, and spending time with family. 

Here is a sneak peek of what’s ahead on their schedule: Tomah Holiday Parade, Sparta Holiday Parade, Black River Falls Holiday Parade, and Warrens Community Christmas. 

Princes Kendall, Queen Cassandra, and Princess Sierra

2017-2018 Warrens Cranberry Festival Royalty December Update

Royal greetings everyone!

We were excited to show off all our hard work spent on decorating our beautiful float for Christmas. The first holiday parade was in Tomah on November 24th. It was a cold and rainy night but we still had fun spreading holiday cheer to all who attended. 

On December 1st we attended the Sparta Holiday Parade. We were invited to a royalty tea prior to the

parade where they served delicious hot chocolate. This parade was a blast and we received many

compliments on our beautiful capes and lovely decorated float. After the parade we went to see the lights in the park. We took tons of pictures with children, dogs, Santa and Mrs. Claus too! It was a lovely evening to celebrate the Christmas season!

December 2nd we had two events. We started out the day at the Wisconsin Cranberry Discovery Center for their Christmas Open House. We helped serve cranberry punch, hot cranberry cider and cranberry

hors d’oeuvres and had a great time visiting with the guests. Later that same day we headed to Black River Falls for Christkindl Festival. The city was decorated with beautiful garland wrapped lampposts and a fire pit  on each block. The parade wasn't very long, but we received a lot of applause and good comments about our float. Afterwards we took Christmas pictures with some beautiful horses, Mr. & Mrs. Clause, and also the Jackson County Royalty. This concludes our holiday parades but we are looking forward to all the

parades this summer.

December 6th we toured the Wisconsin Capital in Madison. The Capital building is a very beautiful and stunning structure. In the center of the building stood a huge Christmas tree with a toy train circling around it. We also visited Representative Nancy VanderMeer’s office, unfortunately she was out of her

office so we couldn’t get pictures with her. The capital visit was supper fun and an awesome experience!

After visiting the to Capital we went to the Executive Mansion. The mansion was filled with beautiful Christmas trees, each had its own unique decorations. One of the trees was decorated with a variety of fruit and of course they included the best fruit of all, CRANBERRIES! We loved the tour and took lots of

pictures with all the lovely trees. After the tour we went to Ella’s Deli for a wonderful lunch. We enjoyed looking around at all the unique decor in the deli and finished off our meal  with delicious ice cream.

Everyone had a wonderful day in Madison and it was a great day to spreading some Holiday Cheer!

Happy Holidays!

The 2017-2018 Warrens Cranberry Festival Royalty

Queen: Tatianna Briggs and Princesses: Hannah Hogan and Lauren von Arx

Here is a sneak peek of what’s ahead on our schedule:  Shopping for formals, Fairest of the Fair Coronation, WSCGA Winter Meeting, and Westby Snowflake Ski Jump.

Princess Hannah, Queen Tatianna, Princess Lauren at Executive Mansion

2017-2018 Newly Crowned Warrens Cranberry Festival Royalty

The Warrens Cranberry Festival is excited to introduce the 2017-2018 Warrens Cranberry Festival Royalty. 

Queen - Tatianna Briggs, and Princesses –Hannah Hogan and Lauren von Arx. 

Tatianna is the 16-year-old daughter of Daniel and Sarah Briggs. Tatianna is in the 11th grade at Tomah High School where she is a member of Golf, DECA, Forensics, Dance, and Choir. Tatianna volunteers her time at St. Paul’s Church and is involved with the Jessie Parker Run, Pennies for Presents, Polar Plunge and

fundraising for MDA. In her free time, Tatianna enjoys golfing, baking, archery and reading.

Hannah is the 15-year-old daughter of Kelley Sunderlage of Tomah. Hannah is in the 10th grade at Tomah High School. She is employed with Tomah Parks and Recreation, is a member of the gymnastics team, and volunteers with the Sparta House of Shadows. In her free time, Hannah enjoys reading, cooking, baking, and creating art.

Lauren is the 15-year-old daughter of Daniel & Allison von Arx, and is in the 10th grade at Tomah High School where she participates in Show Choir, Soccer, Student Council, and Art honors. During the summers, Lauren has attended Girl Scout leadership camps and learned skills to be a camp counselor and leader in other areas. In her free time, Lauren volunteers at the local food pantry and enjoys various outdoor activities,

painting, listening to music, cooking, and traveling.

Here is a sneak peek of what’s ahead on their schedule: Tomah Holiday Parade, Sparta Holiday Parade, Black River Falls Holiday Parade, and Warrens Community Christmas.

 

Princess Hannah Hogan, Queen Tatianna Briggs, Princess Lauren von Arx

2016-2017 Warrens Cranberry Festival Royalty October Update

Royal greetings everyone!

We are excited to share some of the different opportunities we have taken part in since we have won the honor of being crowned your 2016-2017 Warrens Cranberry Festival Royalty.  We had a busy four days of Cranfest and on Friday night, September 23rd we had the opportunity to go to the Tomah Sparta Speedway and ride in the parade lap holding the American flag during the national anthem. Each of us got to wave the green flag to start a race, this was a very fun experience for the whole royal family. September 30th we got to ride on top of our float for the homecoming parade. It was fun seeing familiar faces and waving to family and friends. On

October 1st we went to Wetherby Cranberry Marsh and the Wisconsin Cranberry Discovery Center. This was such a fun day. We put our hip boots and waded out into the Cranberry Bogs to take pictures. While at the marsh, we had the opportunity to meet and greet people from all over the US. Next we headed off to the

Wisconsin Cranberry Discovery Center where we enjoyed a delicious lunch. We also made crafts with

children and mingled with visitors. We hope you have a "Berry" good time until we write again.

Yours truly,

2016-2017 Warrens Cranberry Festival Royalty-

Queen: Mackenzie Myers, Princesses: Lindsay Murdock and Stevie Peterson

Here is a sneak peek of what’s ahead on our schedule: Tomah Holiday Parade, Sparta Holiday Parade and Black River Falls Holiday Parade, Warrens Community Christmas.