2013 Bowmanville Santa Claus Parade Part 2

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#91-Bowmanville High School Band
#92-Salvation Army Durham Emergency and Disaster Response Vehicle-Salvation Army of Bowmanville
#93-#95-The Petley-Hare's-Petley Hare Insurance
#96 & #97-Marching Unit and Colour Guard-Royal Canadian Air Cadets 172 Clarington
#98-Snow Princesses
#99 & #100-Thrup nee Bit-Two Bagpipers and a Conga player

 

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Parade Pictures101-110

#101-Snowflakes
#102-#104-Christmas Present Roundup!-Bowmanville Kinsmen
#105-#109-COAA Rocks-Clarington Older Adult Association
#110-Dufferin Drum of Presents-Dufferin Concrete

 

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Parade Pictures 111-120

#111 & #112-Dufferin Drum of Presents-Dufferin Concrete
#113 & #114-KX96 New Country FM,107.7 FM and 1580 CKDO
#115-#119-Shriners-The Oshawa and District Shrine Club
#120-Durham College Pipes and Drums

 

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Parade Pictures 121-130

#121-Tiger,Leopard,Cougar and Kittens
#122-#125-Rockin around the Christmas tree-Ecole Duke of Cambridge Public School
#126 & #127-Boston Pizza Canada
#128-Whitby Brass Band
#129-Goldilocks and the Three bears
#130-Wish Book Dreams-The Bennett Family and Friends

 

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Parade Pictures 131-140

#131-#137-Wish Book Dreams-The Bennett Family and friends
#138-#140-A Juke Box Christmas-Precision Dance Company

 

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Parade Pictures141-150

#141-#143-Therepeutic Paws of Canada
#144-1913 Ontario Regiment Cadet Band
#145 & #146-Women With Curves-Curves
#147-#149-Big White Christmas-Big Brothers/Big Sisters Clarington
#150-Winnie the Pooh

 

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Parade Pictures 151-160

#151-Winnie the Pooh
#152-#154-Cuppie and friends-Clarington Small Business Development Group
#155-#160-Animal Gifts-Bowmanville Zoo-The star of this entry was Limba the 53 year old Asian Elephant.Protesters had planned to block the parade so the Parade committee decided not have Limba in it.Discussions took place,the protesters backed off,police beefed up security,the protesters were walking along the parade route,Police followed right along.The comittee allowed Limba in the Parade,thanks to a facebook group called We Want Limba in the Santa Claus Parade.it wasn't looking good for Limba to be in it,a growth,possibly cancerous was found.She was feeling well enough the day before and she was good to go.people cheered when they saw her and took pictures and applauded.the head of the Zoo thanked us fro our support,if it wasn't for us,Limba and the Zoo may not have been in the parade.they carried a sign that said thank you Bowmanville.She had pictures taken of her at Memorial park at the end of the parade.On her way back she was brought down a street just north of us and my niece's children and two others got their picture taken with Limba.She is getting more tests done at the end of this month and hope all goes well for her.The protesters had a protest planned at the Zoo Saturday,we were told to detour away from the Zoo so they could not have an audience to voice things,it was a cold day anyway and they gave up.

 

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Parade Pictures 161-170

#161-#165-Animals Gift Bowmanvile Zoo-first picture is a Baboon riding on a horse,got a good laugh out of that
#166 & #167-The Concert Band of Cobourg
#168-#170-Santa Claus
The parade had 73 entries this year,up from 46 last year due to the lifting of the no advertising ban on floats.the whole parade from start to finish took 2 hours and 15 minutes and 1 hour and 14 minute to pass by where we were.

 

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Parade Button

This year's Parade button,helps to pay to keep the Parade going on every year.

 

[Baxter'smybaby]

thanks for sharing these--looks like it was a great parade.