If you’ve lived in the neighborhood at least a year, you know that the 4th of July Parade is a big to-do, but it can’t happen without YOU!
Volunteers are needed for these tasks:
- Running the games after the parade (watermelon seed spitting, sack race, etc.)
- Bringing 2 filled piñatas and supervising their destruction (one for little kids, one for big)
- Making about 6 posters to advertise the big event and setting them up at key intersections in the neighborhood about a week before the parade. (This one is great for tween kids with too much summer looming before them.)
- Set up and decorations the morning of the parade (8:00 am)
- Take down and clean up after the festivities
- Bringing cookies or donating a watermelon (or both!)
- Donating about 200 cups and napkins
- Letting us use your large Igloo water cooler
Please contact Cindy Bogard (912-9770) if you can help with any of these!
Lisa Farenkamp has volunteered to coordinate cookies again this year (thanks Lisa). Please contact her at 444-3211 to arrange for a cookie donation in advance or to let her know that you’ll bring them the morning of the parade.
The parade will be on Monday the 4th. We will gather at the Barton Hills Market at 8:30 and will march to the school where there will be judging for the best decorated wagons, stroller, walkers, etc., patriotic music and brief speeches, cookies and watermelon, and games. A lot of fun, but only if everyone joins in.
