The Hyack float continued its winning ways at the Issaquah Salmon Days Festival and Parade.
The Hyack Festival Association issued a press release thanking Adam Isfeld of Key West Ford for his “generous financial donation” that allowed the Hyack float and ambassadors to go to Issaquah last weekend to participate in the Salmon Days Festival and Parade.
The local contingent didn’t come home empty handed, winning the Issaquah Rotary Award, which is given to the float entry with the best use of animation, or the most humorous.
The Hyack float has picked up a number of awards in the 2013 festival season, including the Presidents Award at the Strawberry Festival in Marysville, the Princess Award at the Daffodil Festival Parade in Pierce County, the Most Original float at the Tacoma Daffodil Festival Parade.
The award comes at a time that the Hyack Festival Association is embroiled in controversy and internal conflicts, which resulted in the Uptown Property Group pulling sponsorship support from the organization and Key West Ford suggesting it would withdraw its support from the organization if there’s any suggestion of wrongdoing within the organization.
The controversy surrounding Hyack began on July 31, when four executive members fired the association’s executive director without approval of the board of directors. He was later rehired, but left a month later and threatened legal action for his dismissal.
Last month, the Hyack board passed a motion that all travel for Northwest Hosting Hospitality and parades be suspended until Hyack deals with its ongoing issues.
