Dayton Daze plays at park
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Kelly Jensen parades as a 1920s flapper.
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A card-playing, moonshine-drinking man rides in the Dayton Days parade, where this year’s theme is Gangsters, Molls and the Roaring Twenties.
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DAYTON — The theme was Gangsters, Molls and the Roaring Twenties, and suspenders, fedoras and flapper dresses were the dress dujour at the annual Dayton Daze celebration on Sept. 5. The celebration raises money each year to benefit the Chief Cliff Fire Service Area.
The Idle Spur, usually the host of Dayton Daze activities, closed last fall so festivities moved to Dayton Park.
“It’s the first time we’ve had to take on everything,” Zoe Lilja said. “Everybody’s kind of winging it.”
Craft, art booths, raffle and silent auction items were set up on the east side of the park, leaving lots of room for children’s games and a pile of straw loaded with candy and prizes for the small fries. Canopies sheltered the eating area for the barbecue dinner prepared by Vista Linda from Somers. Visitors could wander over to Flathead Lake for a free sailboat ride.
New this year was a car show and vintage autos filled the lot across from the Dayton Presbyterian Church, where church women held their annual bazaar and lunch.
Mission Mountain Winery also hosted a complimentary wine tasting during Dayton Daze.
At the 3 p.m. parade, which traditionally goes around twice, visitors commented on a more family friendly atmosphere.
Jim Pomajevich drove one of the first “horseless carriages,” which he found in North Carolina.
The Dayton Ladies Temperance Union made an appearance walking in the parade and protesting liquor, while a wagon load of moonshiners tasted their “white mule” and played poker. Bringing up the rear was a moonshiner who had been caught by a revenuer.
The kids were more interested on candy thrown by the cars, fire vehicles and horseback riders.
