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Are you ready for the parade? Get those generators and lights out!
Kearny – Celebrate our Heritage with music at the annual Electric Light parade in Kearny, Sat. Dec.6. Whether it is I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas, Silent Night, Here Comes Santa, or Joy to the World, music at Christmas warms the heart and gets us in the Christmas spirit.
This year brings many changes to the Electric Light Parade, which will now be known as the Winter Festival. Besides the name, the venue and the direction of the parade have also been changed. All activities will be held on Alden Street.in the center of town.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. There will still be the same good fellowship, great parade entries, tasty treats and vendors.
At 3 p.m. there will be a few vendors with their hand crafted items for early stocking stuffers. The parade will line up in the Kearny Town Hall parking lot at Jamestown starting at 5 p.m., then, will travel up Tilbury to Alden where the floats and marchers will stop in front of the judges at the Pinal County Building and proceed to the parking area between the ARC and Kearny Drug. Clubs, organizations, school groups and individuals are encouraged to participate. Glow sticks are great for lighting and there are battery lit strings of lights for easy decoration.
The Junior Chamber members will have hot chocolate and cookies for sale and the Chamber will be selling posole and menudo.
If you have not received a parade application in the mail drop by the Chamber office, if the office door is closed there will be some on the rack by the door. There is no charge to enter. The forms need to be submitted by by Wed. Dec. 3 so that parade entry comments can be written up for the Master of Ceremonies. It is first come first served for the lineup.
The Love Light Ceremony with Luminarios will be held Friday, Dec. 19 at 6:30 pm. Angels may be purchased from Joan McCallister or at the Chamber office and Junior Chamber members are selling luminarios. Both are in memory or in honor of friends, relatives or anyone you want to honor. There will be a booth set up during the parade to sell both items. This is a very sentimental tribute with the luminarios lighting up Alden Street. The Angel love lights proceeds go to a scholarship and luminarios proceeds will go to a charity of the Junior Chambers choice.
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