Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back to The Buzz: Blog and our Alumnae Spotlights! We are reigniting this effort by starting with a short interview with the 2025 Daffodil Festival President, Marin Sasaki-Boyce! Marin served as the Orting Princess in 2017 under President Ernie Ouellette. Their theme, Daffodil Paradise, brought the warm sun to our chilly […]
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We asked the 2023 Royal Court to answer a few questions about some of the things they’ll take with them from this past year, before we get started with Selection Season for 2024. So, before they pack up their luggage and hit the road for their next great adventure, let’s give the Royal Court of
Be it in a JROTC uniform or a Daffodil Festival tiara, Queen Vivian knows what it takes to be a leader! On Saturday, March 4th, the annual Daffodil Festival Queen’s Coronation event took place in the auditorium of Mt. Tahoma High School, in order to crown the 2023 Queen of the Royal Court. One by
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The skies over Pierce County were a little gray this past weekend, but for those inside Pioneer Park Pavilion in downtown Puyallup on Sunday, February 5th, things were about to get a lot more yellow. One by one, twenty-four of Pierce County’s brightest emerging leaders, athletes, scholars, and more, took to the stage to be
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The members of the Daffodil Royal Court volunteer dozens of valuable hours of their senior years of high school to community representation and service. Through Festival programs like “Sponsor a Princess,” the Festival Closet, and more, we can make sure that they continue to look and feel good doing it!
A past Princess of the 2012 Royal Court, 2023 Daffodil President Madison Riddle has returned to the Festival to lead its 90th season. On October 6th, Madison and her fellow ’12 Princess, The Buzz Blog Editor Savannah Fry, sat down to discuss the legacy behind an Alumnae President, how cute her octopus is, and name
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The Daffodil Festival meets its Princesses at a very significant moment in their lives: in the Fall of their Senior Year of high school. Their resumes boast many notable accomplishments in scholarship, extracurriculars, community service, and more, partially because they’ve been working so hard to boost these resumes for college acceptances across the four years
A Tiara for a Tassel: The Daffodil Royal Court of 2022 Graduates! Read More »
The Daffodil Festival Princess Tea took place on Sunday, May 1st, 2022, at Laurel Creek Manor in Sumner. One of the final official events of the Daffodil hosting season, the Princess Tea is a special occasion on the Royal Court’s calendar, as it is one of their best opportunities to get personal with some of
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As an organization that has been in motion in Pierce County for nearly a century, you might imagine that it takes a lot of work to look this good! Because April is National Volunteer Month, we wanted to take the opportunity to thank some of the wonderful people who make The Daffodil Festival such an
Behind the Yellow Blazer: Meet 2022 Festival President, Scott Dellinger! Read More »
It’s not every day you become Queen of the Daffodil Festival… and certainly not when, in a first of the Festival’s recorded history, you earn the title of Miss Congeniality on the same night. However, as of Sunday, March 27th, Princess Clara of Curtis High School, did just that. Now Queen Clara is ready
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