2007 Native American Connections Parade Winners
(Entries are judged on 1-Best Use of Theme, 2-Originality and 3-Creativity on a scale of 1-10)
Non-profit Organization (501c 3 status etc.)
1st Place: Native American Connections
2nd Place: Phoenix Indian Center
3rd Place: Dine Baptist Ministries
Honorable Mention: Native Health Senior Center and Native Health – A Tradition of Wellness.
Schools: Pre-School, Kindergarten, and 1st through 12th grade
1st Place: Creighton School District
2nd Place: Santa Rosa Boarding School
3rd Place: South Mountain High School – Native American Club
Honorable Mention: Good Shepard Lutheran School & Madison School District Parent Committee
Schools: College & Grade
1st Place: Mesa Community College – Intertribal Student Organization
2nd Place: Stewart Indian School Alumni
3rd Place: South Mountain Community College
Honorable Mention: American Indian Council
Performance
1st Place: O’odham Himdak Cukam
2nd Place: Intertribal Boyz
3rd Place: “Rez Band”
Honorable Mention: Ak-Chin Youth Council
Business, Specialty & Commercial (Motorized, Fire & Police Depts., etc.)
1st Place: BIA, San Carlos Irrigation District
2nd Place: Phoenix Area Office
3rd Place: KTNN – Native Broadcast Enterprise
Equestrian (Horse teams, etc.)
1st Place: Linda White Wolf & her dancing horses
2nd Place: Wild Women of the West
3rd Place: Wells Fargo – Native Peoples
Honorable Mention: Rawhide Western Steakhouse & Theme Park
Dignitaries - Honorable Mentions
Mayor Phil Gordon
Councilman Simplot
Miss Indian Arizona 2007 and Court
Miss San Carlos Apache 2006-07
Salt River Royalty
American Inter-Tribal Veterans Association
Sioux Veterans Color Guard
Salt River Rodeo Royalty
THANK YOU ANNOUNCER & JUDGES
Parade Announcer - Patty Dimitriou, Alternative Marketing Solutions
Jason Coocheytewa, Red Note
Parade Judges:
Bev Warne - ASU College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation
Linda Benally - Pinnacle West
Linda Westover – IHS
Violet-Mitchell - Salt River Indian Community
Priscilla Foote - Gila River Health Care
Patti Hibbeler - Phoenix Indian Center
THANK YOU DIRECT, IN-KIND & PROMOTIONAL PARADE SPONSORS:
APS - Thank for your monetary and in-kind sponsorship. Your contribution allowed us to purchase parade t-shirts for our volunteers, print flyers for neighborhood notifications, and provided us with trash receptacles.
WELLS FARGO - Thank you for your generosity in sponsoring the hospitality tent and printing for the parade.
CITY OF PHOENIX - Thank you for allowing us the use of your personnel, especially the City Police, streets, and parks for this wondrous occasion every year and we look forward to continuing to strengthen our partnership.
KAZ-TV & Linda White Wolf - Thank you for your sponsorship of airtime to run the Parade commercial as well as the NARD commercial on KAZ-TV.
Pima Awards & Promotional Products - Thank you for sponsoring the parade trophies this year and also printing the participant ribbons!
Alternative Marketing Solutions - Thank you for generously volunteering your marketing and public relations services to promote the parade every year. 602-357-4701
Casino Arizona - Thank you for your generous sponsorship of bottled water for all our volunteers and participants. We look forward to continuing our relationship.
Monterey Park Learning Center – Phoenix Elementary School District 1- Thank you to your staff and students for allowing us the use of your streets and parking lots for our parade line-up. 602-257-6342
Bible Baptist Church – Thank you for allowing us the use of your parking lot for our parade this year. 602-763-1919
Arizona Native Scene – Thank you for your generous sponsorship for the Newspaper Ad. 602-448-0260
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