Category Archives: Alley News

Gaithersburg Labor Day Parade

The Kapitol Klowns have been invited to participate in the 75th annual Gaithersburg Labor Day parade on Monday, September 2. Lineup for the parade is at noon and the parade begins at 1:00pm. There is free parking and shuttle buses from Lakeforest Mall.

If you plan to participate in the parade, please notify Tithe Burke, aka Chicklets at mtb38 [at] aol dot com

Information about the parade can be found on The City of Gaithersburg website.

Kapitol Klowns in the 2012 City of Gaithersburg Labor Day Parade

Kapitol Klowns in the 2012 City of Gaithersburg Labor Day Parade

Free parking will be available in the Olde Towne garage on South Summit Avenue. Handicapped parking will be available behind the Victor Litz store on Diamond Avenue, and behind the Shell gas station on Summit Avenue. The parade will be held rain or shine. For more information call 301-258-6350 or visit gaithersburgmd.gov/parade. Julie Wright, traffic reporter for WTOP and Fox, will be the misstress of ceremonies.

COAI Calendar

The Kapitol Klowns are participating in the COAI calendar for 2014. We picked the month of October and have a fall theme.

Nancy Carlin is trying to photo shop our clown heads for the October calendar. There are many of our members that did not send photos. If you have not sent your photo to her please do so in the next two 2 days. I was told the calendar proofs were due by August 5th to the Calliope. We have to give Nancy and Molly time to work on the project . It is very time consuming to photo shop photos.

Important Information: Photos taken on cell phones do not work properly with the photoshop program that Nancy has.

Please send a digital – high megapixels photo of your head.
The best email for Nancy is stardust4099@gmail.com

Happy International clowns week.
Thank you.

Potomac Community Resources Carnival

Potomac Community Resources is having an end of summer Carnival for the Tricia Sullivan Respite program on Sunday July 21st between 3-5pm The TSR program is for teens and adults with significant care and medical needs. All of the individuals at this program use wheelchairs and need one on one staff assistance.

PCR is willing to donate $ to Kapitol Klowns for this event- IF we have enough clowns volunteer. Last year we had 6 of us. As of right now Rita and I are the only clowns who sign up. We need at least 5 or 6

If you are available we would love to have you join us. This is a very rewarding afternoon. PCR is planning to have us make balloon animals, face paint and clown around.

2:30-3:00PM- set-up. Please arrive by 2:45pm
3:00-5:00PM- Carnival

The address is 1010 Grandin Ave Rockville MD. This is an old school building
PLEASE let me know if you are available by Thurs July 11th, I will need to make other entertainment arrangements if we do not have enough clowns.

For more information or to participate, contact Diane Jones, aka Toodles, at toodlestheclown@aol.com