A CITIZENS MARCH TO HONOR THE FIREFIGHTERS!
Sunday, September 19, 2010; Start Time 2:00 PM
STAGING AREA 1:45 PM at 16th & Pearl Streets ON PEARL.
Samba Marching Band, Firefighters, volunteers & evacuees, lead the Parade. Citizens and Boulder High Marching Band follow.
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A one-mile-long, Hometown Parade to Honor the Four Mile Firefighters is...
[read more] A CITIZENS MARCH TO HONOR THE FIREFIGHTERS!
Sunday, September 19, 2010; Start Time 2:00 PM
STAGING AREA 1:45 PM at 16th & Pearl Streets ON PEARL.
Samba Marching Band, Firefighters, volunteers & evacuees, lead the Parade. Citizens and Boulder High Marching Band follow.
SCROLL TO BOTTOM FOR SCHEDULE OF PARADE EVENTS.
A one-mile-long, Hometown Parade to Honor the Four Mile Firefighters is being held Sunday, September 19th, at 2 PM in Downtown Boulder. It will begin at 15th & Pearl Street and end at 2400 Pearl. Parade marchers include firefighters, volunteers, evacuees. Led by a Samba Marching Band, the Honor the Firefighters Parade will continue east on Pearl St. and end at the park at Folsom & Pearl Streets. Dog evacuees, and dogs up for adoption from the Boulder and Longmont Humane Societies are welcome to march, on leash.
The Honor the Firefighters Parade is being incorporated into the day-long, City-sponsored BoulderGreenStreets.org "Ciclovia" event. They have already closed the roads on Sunday, for community cycling and walking. Ciclovia organizer Hillary Griffith, has donated the marching band.
HEADLINERS at this Sunday's Hometown Parade to Honor the Fourmile Heroes and Firefighters include:
1:30 - 2 PM - The KIDS' ART pre-parade for 4 & 5-year-olds starts at 11th and Pearl and ends at 16th and Pearl Streets. The children will be led by the world-famous Barefoot Violinist, who also was a fire evacuee.
2 PM - The Fourmile and Gold Hill Fire Dept. have been asked to sound the start of the Hometown Parade by sounding their sirens.
2-3 PM - The firefighters, volunteers, and evacuees - some with dogs on leash - will be led down Pearl Street, from 16th & Pearl to 2400 Pearl (Folsom St) by the SAMBA Marching Band. The Sunshine Canyon Fire Dept where 51 homes out of 158 were lost, will have their BIG RED truck parked at the end of the Parade at Folsom and Pearl.
The Rock 'n Roll Choir will follow the firefighters with the second part of the PARADE: The Citizens March. The Parade will end with members from the BOULDER HIGH SCHOOL marching band. Posters from FourmileHeroes.org will line the poles and storefronts in Downtown Boulder.
The one-mile-long Parade will march down a CAR-Free Pearl Street. Students from local K-12 schools have been making posters to say Thank You. In the 20-2100 block of Pearl Street, a group of homeowners (evacuees) from Fourmile Canyon will hold up signs that tell the firefighters how thankful they are.
"Everyone here just wants to Hug-A-Fireman," says Fourmile resident Cynthia Corthers. "We're all so grateful. One firefighter, even spent the night at a neighbor's home, beating back flames that were two feet from their home. His efforts saved their house!"
This Sunday, 9/19, all cars have been banned from the Parade route from 8 AM to 4 PM. This is because BoulderGreenStreets.org has turned the streets into a PARK and play-space for the day. The event is called "Ciclovia." Residents are invited downtown all day to bicycle, rollerblade, jog, do yoga, climb a rock wall, and MARCH in the streets. Ciclovia organizer Hillary Griffith, has donated the marching band.
We expect several thousand people to march in the 2 PM Fourmile Heroes - Firefighters PARADE.
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For more information, contact Parade organizers Alexia Parks, 303-443-3697, director of The Education Exchange Network, and Laura Levy of Fourmile Heroes, 303-931-9080
laura@gourmetmediagroup.com
