Each year thousands gather in Wenatchee to celebrate the Apple Blossom Festival, the oldest major festival in the state of Washington. The pinnacle of the Apple Blossom Festival is the parade that has been going on strong since 1919.

As part of the parade, the Rotary Club of Wenatchee Sunrise hosts Road Apple Roulette, a raffle where participants guess the location of the "road apples" left by horses on the parade route. One very lucky raffle player will win $10,000 and four other almost as lucky people will win $500 each.

Here's how it works. When the selected group of horses reach our designated area in front of Memorial Park, the section of the pavement hit by the first equine excrement is the winning section. All those with tickets in that section are in the drawing. We will draw one winner and award that person the grand prize of $10,000. We will also award four $500 prizes, one for each of the other four sections.

The drawing is held at 3 pm on the the day of the Stemilt Grand Parade at the Apple Blossom Fesitval stage in Memorial Park.

Proceeds support local and international nonprofits -- 

• Bruce Hotel (Womens Resource Center)
• Applarian scholarship program
• Challenge scholarship program
• Pybus Public Market Foundation
• Sister Connection, supporting widows and orphans in Burundi Africa
• End Polio Now
• Wenatchee Valley Senior Activity Center

Rules of the Road

1. 5 Sections will be marked on the Grand Parade route near Memorial Park, between the red crosswalk and Chelan Ave.

2. When the “to be determined” group of horses reach the sections area they will be observed for the first horse droppings to hit the road.

3. The section that has the first horse droppings will be declared the Grand Prize eligible section.

4. Every raffle ticket sold for the “eligible” section will be placed into a receptacle.

5. One raffle ticket will be drawn for the Grand Prize of $10,000.00 (IRS taxes will be withheld).

6. A secondary drawing will take place for each of the four losing sections. One raffle ticket will be drawn from each losing section, and each of the four ticket holders will win $500.00.

7. If no horse droppings land in any of the designated sections, we will randomly draw a number from 1 to 5, and that number will determine the Grand Prize “eligible section”.