The Edmonds Noon Rotary Club hosts and produces the Annual Edmonds Waterfront Festival, which runs this year Friday-Sunday, June 3-5. The setting for the festival is the beautiful Port of Edmonds Marina that is home to more than 1,200 boats and was named the 2006 National Marina of the Year.

Admission is $3 but kids 12 and under are free.

A 5K fun run Saturday will benefit Washington Kids in Transition. Learn more here.

This annual festival is a major fundraiser with proceeds supporting Rotary programs and services. Among programs that benefit include college scholarships for local youth. Since 1976, the Rotary Club of Edmonds has awarded more than 283 scholarships totaling over $252,500 to graduating seniors from Edmonds-Woodway, Meadowdale and Scriber Lake High Schools.

The Rotary Club of Edmonds also supports YWCA transitional housing for women and their children, YMCA Partners with Youth, Boy Scouts, literacy, housing and water projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America and Rotary First Harvest service to local food banks. Please visit www.edmondswaterfrontfestival.org for a complete listing of supported programs and services.

Learn more about festival happenings, from entertainment to food to children’s activities, at this link.

The festival is at the Port of Edmonds, 336 Admiral Way. There is plenty of parking, but it’s recommended you use the trolley shuttle, which is free and stops at:
– Edmonds Elementary School
– 7th & Daley
– 6th & Dayton
– 2nd & Dayton

Riders are dropped off right at the festival front gate. Waterfront Festival shuttle service runs continuously, every 15-20 minutes during the times listed below:

Friday, June 3 starts at 2:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 4 starts at 10:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 5 starts at 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.