Approximately 900 people joined us at Enchanted Forest this year to celebrate the earth and our place on it. Thank you sponsors and volunteers for making it all possible!
Enchanted Forest sponsors and volunteers
Event prep:
Kellie Bakke, who designed our postcards, posters and ads! Wow! Thank you so much!
Stacie Pitschka: Who worked her tail off on those costumes!
Casey Henrikson: Who worked her tail off to make us a tree costume!
Stephanie Donaton: who helped to organize actors, revised and wrote scripts, picked up the Smokey costume, made the Pine beetle info sheet for goody bags…..
Jaydene Morrison, who picked up all of the food
Russ Peterson: who made costumes for the volunteers!
Jane and Larry McGrath: who stuffed goody bags and made masks
Liz Evans
Nancie Graebeldinger
Annette Croughwell
Elaine Mason
Jill Crowley
Tamara (Skye’s Mom!)
Julia Lathan
Darren Villeneuve
Erynn Simone
Sarah Newby
Dave Francis
Dawn Dennison
The Wild Bear families who baked goods to sell!
Day of:
Stacie Pitschka
Jane and Larry McGrath
Jaydene Morrison
Russ Peterson
Andy and Sheri McGregor
Randy Gietzen
Greg Oberg
Christine Ipolyi
Christy Icenogle
Violet Andres and Rich: OUR COOKS!
Big Foot
Lynn Spishak
Stacie Farmer
Betty Porter
Joanne Larson
Deb Nichols
Tyler Pelkey
Kevin Mueller
Chris Dwyer
Diane Thurston
Chuck Edelstein
Willow Johnson and her friend Jill
Susan and Wes from the bank
Actors:
Tyler Pelkey: Bat
Lilly Warren: Bat
River Harris: Tree
Will Ford: Tree
Dan Johnson: Wolf Spider
Angel Parker: Wolf Spider
Mikaela Madalinski: Crayfish
Brent Warren: Crayfish
Zoey Payne-Grauch: Bobcat
Fiona Kalil: Bobcat
Lynn Spishak: Tiger Salamander
Stacie Farmer: Tiger Salamander
Sarina Perret: Great Horned Owl
Thank you to Nature’s Own for providing rock goodies, City of Boulder for providing Water coloring books, US Forest Service for providing Smokey Bear, Buffalo Bill’s for providing candies for the goody bags, B&F for providing the grill, Indian Peaks Ace Hardware for providing sandbags for the sandwich boards, and Nederland Feed and Supply for supplying straw bales!
This event was an incredible success and largely due to all of our volunteers! You have provided such an amazing experience for people from all over the place! Thank you for supporting Wild Bear’s efforts and we look forward to working together in the future!
