Peeps

Saturday, April 7, 2018

And now for the sad news:

Here is an article that I have been sent about a labor dispute that is taking place between Just Born, the company that manufactures PEEPs, Mike and Ikes, Red Hot Tamales and Goldenberg Peanut Chews. We are highly disturbed by this. If the union does not prevail on the pension issues, we will not be able to continue purchasing the thousands of PEEPs we use every year for this show, nor will we continue with this show. We stand with the workers who deserve, now and in the future, to benefit from their labor and loyalty to the company.

We love PEEPs and even more than that, we love Bob Born, the inventor of PEEPs. This has been an honorable company in the past. We ask that they honor the union and its demands.

PPEEPSLaborDisputeArticle

Friday, April 6, 2018

Thanks to Tom Johnson who is always here for us, taking the most wonderful pictures.

Thanks to all who made the PEEPs show 2018 so successful.

Thanks to our wonderful judges who bravely (some of them) publicly stuck their necks out to vote for their five favorite PEEPs. Picured are Mayor Pam Triolo, Editor Mark Easton and Judy Easton.
Not pictured but helpful in the decisive decision was Julio Poletti of the Palm Beach Post. There were three other judges who wish to remain anonymous.

Mark Easton, Judy Easton, Pam Triolo

Julio Poletti

This PEEPs Compilation got 1936 Votes - I think the content had a lot to do with it and it Speaks Volumes about the Climate

1836 votes for Joyce's Collage of PEEPs
Every Year Starts with PEEP Seeger: This is especially poignant this year on the 50th Anniversary of the Assassination of Martin Luther King. Pete introduced Dr. King to "We Shall Overcome" at the Highlander School. It became the anthem of the movement

A Ode to the Environment

And Then There Were None- Destroying the last of the wildlife species in the world-

Dedicated to Parkland and all of the 33,000 who die from gun violence each year

Comic Relief- and lightening

If I hear one more PEEP out of you I am going to turn this car around and take you home!!!

Resist- With all those women who changed the world because they resisted oppression

The Ship of State is Sinking- Those on the side on life rafts are the deplorable brought to Washington by this administration. They will all go down!

Why do PEEPs like to eat snails? Because they hate fast food!

A PEEP is like a teabag. You don't know how strong she is until she's in hot water.

Just like the Lilliputians captured Gulliver, the PEEPs capture an monster and will rend him harmless and save the world.

The winner from 2nd place thru 10th place The numbers next to each exhibit are the numbers of votes each one got

The "Joyce Brown Collage of Dioramas" got 1836 votes. I will post this last, in the next post, as there are 11 different elements to this exhibit. Here are the winners from #2 thru #10

2. Exodus-Stan and Susan Horcharik 1252 votes

3. Claudia Levi Last Supper 896

4. Sara Ortiz PEEP-Tona 784

5. Hammock Point Elementary School Beach ll 624

6. Lake Worth High School OlymPEEPS 620

7. Caia and The Salerno Family The PEEP-Cracker Suite 524

8. Ruth Lynch Save the BEEpS 496

9. Nancy Costello Julia PEEPs Kitchen 488

10. Chloe Pearson Moore Ice Skaing OlymPEEPs 436

Here are the winners numbers 11-20

11. Cypress Trail Elementary School PEEPS Concert 434

12. Wreck of the PEEPs Express Bruce Brown 429

13. Nancy Costello PEEPs Rally 423

14. Lake Worth High School Mary PEEPins 396

15. Lake Worth High School Where's PEEP-o 387

16. Angelina Raya Let's Make a Deal 358

17. Jennifer Gironda PEEP-Moji 346

18. Hammock Pointe Elementary PEEPlix Jacinda, Melissa 345

19. Hammock Point Elementary School Sophia, Gina, Gabriella Super PEEPs 294

20. Bruce Brown- The Talking PEEPs Xpress 264

Did I forget to photograph our beloved train. It tooted and whistled and spoke and blew smoke rings. Bruce really did it up this year. It didn't fall off of the tracks- even once.