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The Red Hot Flashers and the Red Hat Cowntesses of (Woodstock, Ontario, Canada) participated in the 60th Annual Victoria Day Parade and were awarded first place in their division. Pulled by a 1929 Hudson, about 20 members walked alongside or rode on the float, singing and blowing bubbles in true Red Hatter fashion. The Red Hot Flashers is led by Queen Phyllis Allen and the Cowntesses by Queen Theresea Deserres. Brian Howard, husband of Flasher Ellen Howard, was the chauffeur for the day, appropriately donning a red hat.
The Red Hat Divas (Port Hardy, British Columbia, Canada) hosted their 4th Annual FUNvention featuring the theme, "A Day At The Races - Ascot." The three-day event attracted more members than the venue could hold--120 ladies. All were given a stick horse and asked to decorate a hat for the horse and a parasol for themselves. Activities included drill team marching, steeplechase racing and a parade. Queen Rosaline Glynn declared, "The Red Hat Society is alive and well and kicking up our heels on Vancouver Island" as their chapter's popular event made the front page of The North Island Gazette.
The newly-formed Artistic Angels (Converse, Texas) entered the Poteet Texas Strawberry Festival Parade and won second place out of 120 entries! Demonstrating the truth of their chapter name, their tea party float featured three floral arbors and a fun bubble-blowing pond. After such an impressive showing, the chapter is looking forward to the coming year and already have signed up for parades every month until December.
Several chapters proved the "United" in United Kingdom by putting their hands together in a team effort to decorate their parade float with beautiful tulip flowers. The FEN Fatales (Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England) were joined by the members from the Boudicca Babes (Colchester), Chiltern Charmers (High Wycombe), Harrogate Hatters (Harrogate), Scarlet Fedoras (Fareham), Cambridge Hatters (Cambridge) and Rhapsody in Red (Sweden). Thousands of people lined the streets and the Hatters got lots of applause all along the route. The Hatters handed out 3,000 leaflets to women in the crowd in the hopes of recruiting more members and they were approached by quite a few people who wanted to know whether there was a chapter near their neighborhood.
Queen Colleen O'Meara and her Deseret Belles (Kerman, California) really hooted it up at the Clovis Big Hat Days Parade. Upwards of 150 local ladies, including a busload of Bakersfield Babes and some as far south as Huntington Beach enjoyed strutting their stuff and shopping at about 400 booths. The chapterettes blew on their Kazoos as they promenaded down the booth aisles in style. "We can't wait to do it again!!" said Queen Bee Colleen who just started the chapter in November and enthusiastically invited other California chapters to attend the big hat event.
The Nifty Over Fifty (Kansas City North, Missouri) chapter held a dessert auction and funny fashion show to raise funds to build a float for the Snake Saturday Parade. The ladies raised over $200 from the auction of desserts and donated Red Hat Society merchandise! The theme for the parade was Lucky Leprechaun's Pot of Gold. Pictured is Hazel Ford, nearly 97 years-young, with a broken leg in a "boot" sitting on the back of a trailer as she waits for the parade to begin.
After last week's Friday Broadcast story about the unique outing to an alpaca ranch, who knew that we'd get another story about llamas back to back?! Two members of The Crawley Red Titfer-Tats (Crawley, West Sussex, England), Liz "Duchess of Dux Crossing" and "Joyous Lady Binky Chaplin" visited the llama park at Ashdown Forest, West Sussex. They met their friend Alison's adopted llama named Ralph. One of the llama's keepers gave them this photo of him wearing a red hat. He told them that Ralph is one of the most gentle and beautiful llamas at the park. And doesn't he look it too!
