Little Mr. Wood Chip Carl Trafton and Little Miss Wood Chip Natasha Haley, both of Rangeley Plantation, appear in the 2006 Rangeley Logging Festival Parade.

Rangeley Logging Festival features little ‘wood chips’

RANGELEY – The Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum is holding the annual Little Miss and Mister Wood Chip contest to select “wood chips” for this July’s Logging Festival parade. Organizers are also soliciting floats to appear in the parade, which is part of the logging museum’s Logging Festival Days.

The wood chip contest will be held Friday, July 27, at the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, and it open to boys and girls ages 6 to 8. Contestants are asked to prepare a song or recite a poem. Although no dance entries are accepted in the contest, children are welcome to exhibit dances and other activities during the evening program, if time allows.

Every Wood Chip contestant will receive a prize.

Winners will ride in the Little Miss and Mister Wood Chip float in the Logging Museum parade on Saturday, July 28. And, in the winter, they will preside over the Giving Tree events: Little Miss Wood Chip becomes the Giving Tree Angel and Little Mister Wood Chip serves as Santa’s elf. Finally, in the 2008 Logging Museum parade, the winners will ride in the Giving Tree float.

The museum will over seven cash prizes in six categories for float entries in the parade: Most Appropriate to the logging industry ($100), Best Logging Truck ($100), Most Entertaining ($75), Most Original ($50), and Most Humorous ($25), and two Best Youth floats ($25 each).

To enter the Little Miss and Mister Wood Chip contest or to put a float in the parade, please call Rodney or Steve Richard at 864-5595.

The Logging Museum, located on Route 16 one mile east of Rangeley, opens every Saturday and Sunday in July and August from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and by appointment. FMI: 864-5595.