Topic: Christmas parade

City, Jaycees to co-host Christmas Parade

November 1, 2008 |

From the 2007 Parade: Santa meets a fan.

The City of Clarksville has partnered with the Clarksville Jaycees to co-host the 49th Annual Christmas Parade downtown.  The night-time parade featuring lighted floats and entries is scheduled on December 6, starting at 5 p.m.

Toys collected during parade check-in on December 6 will be distributed to families in need in the Clarksville/Montgomery County area before Christmas.

Parade entrants are asked not to exceed the $20 value per toy, but you may donate more than one toy in the same price range. «Read the rest of this article»

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Christmas Parade delights thousands

By Christine Anne Piesyk | December 2, 2007 |

Thousands of families lined the streets of downtown Clarksville Saturday for the annual Christmas Parade, which this year was staged at sunset and coincided with Downtown for the Holidays event of shopping and entertainment.

Santa, in his brilliant red suit with white fur trim, returned in his sleigh, and paused to listen to children’s wishes at Courthouse Square.

This year’s theme was the Sights and Sounds of Christmas. The Parade kicked off at 5 p.m. and included a host of city officials, civic, business, cultural and spiritual organizations, school bands, color guards, Clarksville’s mounted police and motorcycle units, regional fire departments and their decorated trucks, and a number of floats. The parade included several floats with Fort Campbell troops. The Roxy Theater contingent, celebrating 25 years of productions, appeared with a horse-drawn carriage and the costumed cast of the current production of Charles Dickens’ Victorian Christmas play, Chimes.

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Christmas Parade brings Santa to Clarksville

By Christine Anne Piesyk | November 29, 2007 |

Santa Claus is coming to town…

Though he made an appearance at the recent lighting ceremony for Christmas on the Cumberland, he’ll be back for another visit with Clarksville’s children this weekend.

Montgomery County and the City of Clarksville will co-host Downtown for the Holidays on Saturday, December 1, immediately following Clarksville’s 48th Annual Christmas Parade. The parade kicks off at 5 p.m.

This is a family-friendly event you won’t want to miss with musical performances by the local R&B band, Eclipse. For more family fun, there will be free carriage rides downtown, and children can take home a hand-crafted toy made by the Tuckasee Woodturners and decorate a cookie with the Montgomery County Home Extension Office at Public Square. Visitors can also stop by the Gas & Water Department’s Open House on the first floor at City Hall for free hot chocolate. «Read the rest of this article»

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