Beaver Festival IV Coming Soon

To celebrate the fourth year of its existence, this year's Beaver Festival will feature leather "tails" that kids can paint and wear, tales of the winter storms last year that broke up the Alhambra Creek beaver family for a time and live music from a host of local bands.

“At our first festival we did a paper tail art project that was enormously popular,” said Heidi Perryman of Worth A Dam, a group devoted to preserving and protecting the Alhambra Creek beavers. “Later, we met children who had carefully kept that artwork and wore it religiously when visiting the beaver dams. It was incredible,” she said, noting that this year volunteers pre-cut 500 leatherette tails that children can paint.

“They’ll be a much better keepsake.”

Perryman said that the storms this winter washed out the dams the beavers had constructed over the past five years. For a time, the family was separated, but she promised the story of how they were reunited this summer will be told at the festival.

The event also will feature music throughout the day, including the Awed Ducks, the Hopeful Romantics and the Alhambra Valley Band.

Beaver Festival IV will take place Aug. 6 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the corner of Marina Vista and Alhambra Avenue.