Press Release : Parade Details from SCV Independence Day Parade Committee
Written by Jeff on June 26th, 2008VALENCIA, JUNE 26: The SCV Parade committee is pleased to announce the parade and float lineup for the July 4th Independence Day Parade in Newhall.
“We’re really excited about this year’s lineup,” Grand Marshal John “Mr. SCV” Boston said. “It includes all the usual floats, trucks, trollies, and farm animals, but this year, we’re having some exciting new entries” the eclectic writer, local folklorist and historian said.
The popular parade -a community fixture since the early 20th Century- will start on July 4 at 9:45 am in Old Town Newhall, Parade organizer Leon Worden said. Floats at the parade will proceed through Old Town Newhall, up Lyons Avenue, and onto Orchard Village road before ending near Placerita Junior High School.
As in years past, this year’s lineup will have many familiar floats and features, including a Signal Newspaper truck, a KHTS fire truck, and several local dignitaries, community groups, city Councilmembers and other elected officials, and important members of the business community.
“It’s good, wholesome fun for the entire family, and it takes place right here in hometown Newhall,” KHTS co-owner Carl Goldman said, adding that the parade will be simulcast on KHTS AM 1220.
The SCV Parade Committee was also pleased to see a number of new applicants for this year’s parade. Organizers say the new lineup will make competition stiff for the award of #1 Parade float. Among the new entries this year are:
- Waste Management’s “The MRF, Recycling, and You” recycling float made of 30% post-SCV-consumer waste
- SCV Realtors for Prosperity Float Encouraging you to Call Now
- SCV Auto Dealers “Driving is Still Cool” float, featuring synchonized SUVs
- CLWA “Water Conservation is Important” float that sprays 200 gallons of water per second on hot spectators
- Latino Ice Cream Vendors Motorized Float, now with 90% prepared foods
- Avenues Project float, featuring twin 40 foot scale-model mixed-use towers
- Hart District Board “Protecting and Educating Your Children is Job #1″ Float
- Henry Mayo Hospital/G&L Realty “Business for a Healthy Santa Clarita” float
- West Ranch Town Council “Antonovich Fan Club” float, driven by dignitary Dave Bossert
- NorthPark Community Church “Benevolent Assimilation” float/parade demonstration, featuring 6,000 church members marching in lock-step to Sousa
- City of Santa Clarita “Thank you Buck for HR
54715887 ” float - Landsource/Newhall Land Real Property Speculation & Investment Opportunity Float
- Bridgeport Community “Give Coots the Boot” float
Worden said that the sheer number of floats in this year’s parade will make the 2008 Independence Day parade and festival something special.
“The amount of floats represents the diversity and the great life we all enjoy right here in the Santa Clarita Valley.”
Trophies for the top three floats will be presented at El Trocadero restaurant at 1pm on July 4th.
The SCVParade committee wishes everyone a happy and fun-filled and most improtant safe 4th of July!
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Wow! You had me going again Jeff! I know,for certain, that there is no LandSource float! And there is absolutely no spraying, throwing, handing of anything from the floats so CLWA will be 86′d if they do that. Trophies will be presented on the back patio at El Trocadero for each category plus the 3 Majors. I think we’re going to have to watch those farm animals around Mr SCV.
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I think we’re going to have to watch those farm animals around Mr SCV
Hahahaha! Good one navigator!
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Jeff, real funny stuff there!
We only have one more parade meeting til the big event - and then we can count the minutes until July 5th, my favorite day of the year.
The night before the parade, Leon Worden and my husband chalk out all the parade entry positions on the streets around Newhall in accordance with the script that Carol Rock manages to “whip up” every year, an immense job. Last year, the City’s street sweepers came by at the crack of dawn to make everything pretty, which was really nice of them, but all the chalk marks got erased which wasn’t discovered until the next morning, day of the parade.
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You might think that someone could fit in a tribute to the founding fathers and the Declaration of Independence.
Our citizens know so little about the founders and our country’s foundational documents. I won’t even mention that what they learn in school is either flat out wrong, distorted, or extremely superficial.
This is truly a missed opportunity to educate and inspire the public.
I have often wondered why the high schools can’t manage to put a marching band together for this event.
But enjoy your freedom and God Bless America. It’s still light years ahead of whatever else is out there.
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Petz2 on Jun 26th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
You might think that someone could fit in a tribute to the founding fathers and the Declaration of Independence.
Ummmm…..who is the “someone” you are referring to?
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Okay…Jeff did it again! Somewhat twisted minds make for great stories. Well done, Jeff and, in Navy terms, “BRAVO ZULU”.
Hart High Summer School always had a band unit of some type during the 60’s in our parade in Newhall. Placerita Jr. High Students got to play with the grown-up band too. Blue Barrel Garbage always had a truck at the end of the parade…picking up what the animals left…
John Bosston is safe around small children, animals and such…cows may be another story but bison have been a long running love of his. I refer to the 1967 Hart High Tomahawk Yearbook and an ad for a Company named “Almalgamated Buffalo Chips”. …the rest is history.
Not sure that there was ever lines of chalk on the streets to denote where parade units lined up…so nice that is done. Street sweepers weren’t a problem prior to the City of Santa Clarita being formed…Los Angeles County NEVER sent such a machine to Newhall, or Saugus…or Castaic. The County doesn’t do much now but take the tax money and run..but I once again digress.
Whatever…great parody/spoof…there is a lot of truth in your humor. Keep it up!
I, for one, will be gong to the parade in Yorktown, Virginia. Now if y’all want to feel like real patriots on the 4th of July, next to DC, Yorktown is the place to be.
-Darryl Manzer
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HS Band? Isn’t school out for the summer?
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The Parade Committee has been trying to put high school bands in the Parade for years but the kids or the band leaders are always “out of town”. It really is a shame. The one thing lacking in our little parade is bands…and we could use a few more equestrians. There has even been a little rivalry initiated between high schools but nobody bites on that. There used to be a rivalry between Sand Canyon, Placerita Canyon, Castaic and whatnot for the best equestrian entry and a perpetual trophy. Nobody is interested.