From BOWLING GREEN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
The start of the holiday season in Bowling Green is official when the Community Holiday Parade makes its way down Main Street through the historic Downtown on Saturday, Nov. 17. The tradition continues and is especially exciting with WTOL broadcasting live through the support of our Presenting Sponsors; Julie’s Dance Studio, Rosenboom Custom Crafted Cylinders, Regel Beloit and the City of Bowling Green.
This parade is billed as the largest holiday parade in Northwest Ohio and those that attend can look forward to seeing floats, marching bands, baton twirlers, antique tractors, dancers and so much more. The parade will be emceed by Jerry Anderson and Jordan Strack and the WTOL Defender vehicle will be a part of the parade. We have worked really closely with WTOL members to make sure we bring excellent broadcast of this parade to those that can’t be here. This will be a three hour broadcast starting at 9 am with a listing of all the area holiday activities. At 10 am the commercial free coverage of the entire parade will start and will conclude at noon.
Because of this live broadcast we would like everyone to be aware that the parade will step off at 9:50 am to provide time for the first units to make their way to the four corners close to the start of the 10 am broadcast.
This year the parade is chaired by Greg Esposito, InTech IT Solutions. Greg is the At-Large representative of the Chamber of Commerce Executive Board. Project Team members for the parade help in many capacities and the chamber can’t thank them enough for the roughly seven months they have been working on the parade. These team members include: Jerid Friar, Melinda Kale, Julie Setzer, Brian Paskvan, Wendy Headley, Marissa Muniz, Wendy Chambers, Pam Fahle, Jacquelyn Gaines, Greg Kegler, Atonn Smeltzer and Mary Hinkelman.
Judges for this year’s parade are Earlene Kilpatrick, Francis Scruci and Abby Paskvan. They will be looking for units that have adhered to the theme of the parade, creativity, performance and other features that make their appearance in the parade exceptional.
