Aquacade is held on the first full weekend of August.
Eligible Participants: All homeowners and renters in Westacres
Raising of the Westacres Colored Flags, these can be homemade or your Westacres T-Shirt, will earn 1 point per household for either the North or the South side.
RULES: The Flag, T-Shirt or Home Display of our theme (INSERT THEME HERE) will have to be displayed so it is easily seen from your street in the front of your house, on the roof or attached to the front of your home, or prominently displayed and easy to see from the street in a front window! It must be on display from July 29 thru August 1.You never know what night a Red team member, Green team member, and your chairman(s) will be driving around assigning points for AQUACADE spirit during those dates. The flag, T-shirt or display needs to be at least 2’x3’ or bigger.
If you choose to convert your home into (INSERT THEME HERE), even better. This year we will be awarding the 2024 Aquacade Spirit Week Grand Champions 5 points; 4 points to 2ndplace; and 3 points to 3rd place.
Everyone else that chooses to participate will gain their side 1 point for Spirit Week. This year we will be doing a % based point system, so every house that participates will count, but points will be awarded based on the % of the total homes on the North and South side.
Let’s have fun and be creative!
Eligible Participants:
The most magical night of the year in our neighborhood! Earn points for your side by arriving at 5:30 p.m. to shuck corn. This is a group event and the team that completes the husking first will be awarded points.
The CORN ROAST begins at 6 p.m.
Westacres supplies the corn, fried, and baked chicken, and the atmosphere, while you bring your own side dishes, beverages, chairs, blankets, dancing shoes, and bug spray.
Youth Kickball Games begin at 7 p.m. for 8-Under. (This kickball is for fun only, no points awarded but allows the little ones to participate.)
The 9 -15 Kickball game will start around 7:45 p.m. The winning team of this game is awarded points.
Eligible Participants: Residents in good standing, plus former residents, friends, relatives, and guests of residents in good standing may participate.
Everyone who pre-registers for the Saturday morning parade gets a point for their side. There is a new DEADLINE for pre-registration which will be on WEDNESDAY July 31st by Midnight.
We will be accepting email pre-registrations sent to Michelle Patterson and Laurie Augenbaugh at AQUACADEPARADE@Gmail.com.
There are 3 categories to enter the parade: 1) walker, 2) rider (like golf cart or wagon), or 3) float (something pulled by another vehicle). To be entered into this year’s parade, each entry must have a “W” (walker), “R” (rider) or “F” (float) clearly visible to the judges on the front of the group or vehicle or float.
Definition of Walker, Rider, Float:
Look for the registration forms in the next two editions of the Weekly or visit www.tinyurl.com/aquacadeparade, the PREFERRED METHOD.
We also award points for the grand champion of the 2025 parade. 1 point for each Human Participant (must be present Saturday a.m.) who has preregistered. IMPORTANT NOTE: IF you did not *preregister each resident and nonresident's name, you will not be awarded participation points for the # of your participants. (*DEADLINE Wednesday, July 30, midnight.)
However if you did not preregister and you win, you will get the winning points: 5 points for GRAND WINNER; 4 points for 2nd place winners; 3 points for 3rd place winners.
This year we ARE NOT awarding points for animals of any kind. Points will be split equally if there are any North and South families having a combined parade entry.
There will be 4 categories the judges will be awarding this year: Best Use of Theme; Most Creative; Most Spirit; and Most Theatrical. (Judges have the option to add a category if needed.) Each category will have a 1st, 2nd, 3rd place winner within each group. (Walker, Rider, Float.)
Thank you for understanding the need to preregister this year to earn participation points. A lot of time and effort goes into organizing the parade and last minute changes cause long delays.
Eligible Participants: Current residents in good standing, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of current residents in good standing, and former residents may participate.
The field events take place after the completion of the parade, usually around Noon. The competition consists of the dash, sack race, ball toss, high-five relay, tug-o-war, water balloon toss, and the famous soft ball games. Westacres will supply the hot dogs and water for lunch and ice cream for dessert.
Eligible Participants: Residents, former residents and friends may attend.
The clubhouse will open at 7 p.m. and food WILL BE SERVED 1 HOUR after the completion of the last softball game.
This year we are featuring live music to dance the night away. So start polishing your dance shoes now!
The dance is a BYOB of your favorite beverage, however, we will provide water and ice.
Eligible Participants: Current residents in good standing only may participate.
The water events takes place Sunday at the beach starting at Noon. We will be doing freestyle, breaststroke, back stroke, underwater swim, and diving. The children can be working on the sand castle throughout the day.
Please watch upcoming Weeklies—there’s more information to come. Let's all enjoy the WESTACRES SPIRIT of this amazing community we choose to live in.
As always,
Go Red,
Go Green,
Go WESTACRES!
~ Collin Elkins & Sheldon Eustice, Aquacade Co-Chairs
Bring your garbage home…
Residents: Please do NOT use the dumpsters located in the beach parking lot or behind the clubhouse as these will be needed for the Corn Roast and other Aquacade activities including the Sunday food stand. With so much activity, they fill up fast!