***NEW - Parade Lineup posted below****
GENERAL PARADE INFO
FOR 2009
The Ypsilanti Heritage Festival invites you to submit entries for the Festival
Parade. Thousands of spectators, children of “all ages,” families
and friends, will gather on Saturday, August 22, 2009, 10:00 am to enjoy the Ypsilanti Heritage Festival
Parade. Bands, floats, marching units, neighborhood groups, school organizations
and much, much more will march through Ypsilanti to Riverside Park, site
of the 31st Annual Ypsilanti Heritage Festival.
APPLY ONLINE FOR PARADE HERE
DOWNLOAD 2009 PARADE APPLICATION
DOWNLOAD 2009 PARADE RULES
THE ROUTE:
The Ypsilanti Heritage Festival Parade will travel east on Michigan Avenue through downtown Ypsilanti. North on Huron Street to Cross St. and west on Cross St. where the parade disbands at Washington St.
IMPORTANT DATES AND TIMES:
August Fri 8-1 Deadline for entry
PARADE LINEUP
ThisYearPosition Unit Name
1 Vietnam Veterans of America, Washtenaw County Chapter #30
2 Festival Grand Marshall
3 Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department
4 Ypsilanti Fire Department
5 Huron Valley Ambulance
6 EMU - Rubber Ducky Race
7 Veterans for Peace
8 Ypsilanti Rotary Club
9 Beautiful Baby Contest
10 Borsodi Calliope Music
11 Sidetrack Bar and Grill
12 Tri County Two Cylinder Club
13 Downtown Association of Ypsilanti
14 Boy Choir of Ann Arbor
15 Bike Fest
16 Yo Yo Jake (yo-yo kid)
17 Harmony Acres Arabian Parade Horses
18 Aachen Auto (2 of 3)
20 Dingell for Congress
21 Ypsilanti Public Schools Foundation
22 Ypsilanti High School Marching Band
23 Ypsilanti High Cheerleaders
24 Ypsilanti High School Track & Field teams
25 Ypsilanti Citizen
26 Ypsilanti Area Jaycees
28 Michigan Firehouse Museum
30 Lincoln Education Association
31 Ypsilanti Lincoln HS Band
32 Optimist Club of Ypsilanti
33 Cub Scout Pack #111
34 Michigan Wheelmen
35 Tittabawassee Valley Fife & Drum Corps
36 Michael Lee (mime artist)
37 Boy Scout Troop #228
38 Eastern Michigan University Athletics
40 Citizens for Alma Wheeler Smith
41 Ypsilanti District Library Navigator
42 Ypsilanti Symphony Orchestra
43 Miss Washtenaw Count 2009, Stephanie Frey
44 La Leche League of Ann Arbor
45 McIntosh Grounds Maintenance, Inc
46 Ypsilanti City Council
47 Wiard's Orchards, Inc
48 Unite EMU /Cross and Resurrection
50 H&R Block
51 Ypsilanti Cooperative Preschool
52 Local Motion - Ypsilanti Local Food Growers, Grocers and Servers
53 Willow Run Community Schools
54 Theatrical Combat Network
55 Boy Scout Troop #290
56 Girl Scout Daisy Troop #188
57 St. Mark Lutheran Church "House of the Risen Son"
58 Saline Twirlettes
61 Ypsilanti Youth Orchestra
62 Emmanuel Lutheran Church
63 State Representative Pam Byrnes
64 Women's Council of Washtenaw County
65 Aachen Auto (3 of 3)
66 AFSCME Local #3451
67 a3radio.com
68 WRAFJ ROTC
70 Twirl Extreme
71 Ypsilanti National Little League
72 Cub Scout Pack #249
73 New Grace
74 Miss Ypsilanti Beauty Pageant
75 Iron Saints, Christian Motorcyclists Association
76 1929 Model A Pickup
77 Nightmare Cruise, Aachen Auto (1 of 3)
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