MENDOCINO CO., 8/30/26 — Great Day in Elk kicked off at noon with a parade featuring the Junior Lifeguards, Elk’s fire trucks, a float of participants dressed in seaweed, among others. MendoTaiko, a Japanese drumming group based in Mendocino with deep ties to Miasa, Mendocino’s sister township in Japan, opened the music for the day, followed by Jason Beard’s Bring Joy, which played through the rest of the afternoon.
The afternoon was filled with a wide array of activities: a silent auction, a full lunch and dinner spread ranging from tamales to lemon chicken, a T-shirt booth, a sugar shack stocked with sweets, and separate booths for sundaes and margaritas. Mendocino High School Principal Tobin Hahn was back at the focaccia booth.
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