Oceanside CA— Summer comes to an end in North County with the annual Oceanside Harbor Days and Miss Southern California Children’s and Teen Pageant. Congratulations to pageant winners: Sarah Isabella Holloway-Teen Miss, Rylie Smith-Junior Miss, Dylan Johnson-Petite Miss, Sienna Trinh-Little Miss, Sydney Madurzak-Wee Miss and Rory Ballard- Baby Miss.
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Baby Miss and Wee Miss contestants
Lauren Bell and Kristalina Banuelos
Kali betz
Rory Ballard
Junior Miss 2015: Kassidy Betz
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The two days of festivities at the harbor began with Oceanside Fire Department Association Pancake Breakfast which was held both days and culminated with the annual Nail and Sail event. Each team is supplied with the same amount of building material, lumber, caulking etc and have two hours to build a boat capable of racing across the harbor multiple times. Teams are made up of three people for construction but only two are allowed occupy the vessel during the race. The 2016 Nail and Sail winners, despite breaking an oar in the final heat, were the ‘Cheatin Oars’ Philip Dow, Tim Gordon and Mike Sheurs. The second place team was the Oceanside Yacht Clubs’ ‘I Dock team’; Dave Collins, Joe Jay and Art Smith.
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Debbie Nicastro sang the National Anthem to open the event. Also pictured, Oceanside Harbor Master Paul Lawrence, City Council-member Jack Feller, CA Assembly member Rocky Chavez and OCC CEO David Nydegger.
Oceanside Fire Department Honor Guard
Kit took his mermaid, Lorelei, out for a stroll
Capt. Jack Sparrow and O’side Mayor Jim Wood
OFD’s Ron Owens and Linda McLaughlin
Sponge Bob, Square Boat
Coast Guard team members Brittany Warner, Karen Sirkey and Deana Mangaya
Aerial photo courtesy of Alan Crosthwaite and the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce