
39th Annual Alafia Lighted Boat Parade
The Rotary Club of FishHawk-Riverview is pleased to announce the 39th Annual Alafia Lighted Boat Parade and Chili Cook-off contest to be held on Saturday December 2, 2023. The celebration will take place at the Riverview Civic Center with announcements of the boat parade winners at River’s Edge Bar and Grill.
Saturday, December 2nd,The Rotary Club of FishHawk-Riverview invites you to experience the holidays Florida style! Celebrate with us and cheer on your favorite decorated boats completely decked out for the holidays as they travel up the beautiful Alafia River! Everyone is welcome! To enter your boat or compete in the Chili Cook Off, see below. Festivities include:
5 PM - 7 PM: Riverview Park & Civic Center, 11020 Park Dr, Riverview
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Holiday music
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Chili Cook Off - $5 to taste and vote. Prizes for 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place; Amazon gift cards of $100, $75 and $50
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Riverfront viewing of the parade 8 PM - 10 PM: River’s Edge Bar & Grill, 6226 Ohio Ave, Gibsonton
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After party where prizes will be announced.
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Best Decorated Boats. Prizes sponsored by River’s Edge Bar & Grill.
All event proceeds benefit Friends of County Parks and local and global charities through the FishHawk-Riverview Rotary Club Foundation
Enter your boat: Boat Registration Form
With your $25 Registration, you will receive a $25 bar tab to use at River’s Edge at the VIP party. Registration required to win prizes.
Enter the Chili Cook Off: Chili Cook Off Registration Form
No Registration Fee; however, registration is required to win prizes.
Set up by 4:30 PM
Indoors and Outdoors at the Riverview Park & Civic Center
To Volunteer click below links:
Community Volunteers Rotarian Volunteers
Contact: Dr. Kim Tyson, Program Chair (813) 765-2618 or hummingbird133@fastmail.com
We are excited to announce that Santa will be able to visit the children after disembarking from a boat at the Civic Center and onlookers will be listening to Christmas music and watching the bright holiday lights of the boats in the parade. Last year over 30 boats participated. We hope to have more this year!
Sat, Apr 13
|Riverview
14th Annual Crawfish Festival
We will have a live band. There will be lots of fun, free games and various activities for the children. We will be offering a variety of Cajun style dishes; Gumbo, étouffée, Red beans and rice and Crawfish meals. Visit www.luvcrawfish.com for more information.


Time & Location
Apr 13, 2024, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Riverview, 11289 Winthrop Main St, Riverview, FL 33578, USA
About the event
The Rotary Club of FishHawk-Riverview is pleased to announce that we are now offering Corporate Sponsorships for our Annual Signature event. The 14th Annual Crawfish Festival will be held at Winthrop Town Center on Saturday, April 13, 2024 from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
We are looking forward to making this the largest Crawfish Festival yet to be put on by the Rotary Club of Fishhawk-Riverview. 100% of the proceeds from this event will help our Rotary Club Foundation [a 501(c)(3) charity] to fund and support local, national, and international charities and activities. These charities and activities have included, but are not limited to, College Scholarships for local students, ECHO, YMCA-Campo, Camp Christina-YMCA, Sylvia Thomas Center, Brandon Outreach Clinic, Rotary Camp Florida, Head Start, Polio Plus, and many, many more.
We will have a live band. There will be lots of fun free games and various activities for the children. As usual, we will be offering a variety of Cajun style dishes, such as, Crawfish Dinners, Etouffee’, Gumbo, Jambalaya and hamburgers and hot dogs. Additionally, we are anticipating having over 50 vendors in attendance.
The attached pages outline multiple levels of sponsorship opportunities available for your business. We will work with your business to ensure you get the maximum recognition and exposure for your sponsorship dollars. The Title, Benefactor and Friend of Rotary partnership levels are requested to be paid in full by March 1, 2024. As for the Crawdaddy, Jambalaya, and Étouffée partnership levels, we are requesting those be paid in full prior to March 15, 2024. We request that all payments be made by a business check, bank cashier check or money order. Upon payment The Rotary Club of FishHawk-Riverview will issue a receipt for each payment received.
Since its inception, the Rotary Club of FishHawk-Riverview has been involved in numerous service projects and, most recently, a global project in Honduras providing water filtration and latrine systems for local communities in that country. We have also provided funds for College Scholarship Programs for local high-school students, Student Dictionary Distribution (over 8,500 dictionaries to elementary students since the program began), Rotary’s Camp Florida (camp for special needs children and adults in Brandon), Group Study Exchange, Reading Is Fundamental (more than 800 books donated to Head Start students and members volunteer to read to the students monthly), Project C.U.R.E (collection and distribution of medical supplies to developing nations), Polio Plus and The Rotary Foundation.
Rotary International is an organization of business and professional leaders, united worldwide, who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. In more than 165 countries worldwide, approximately 1.4 million Rotarians belong to over 33,000 Rotary Clubs.
Thank you for your consideration and support of The Rotary Club of FishHawk-Riverview and the good works of Rotary International throughout the world!