The Metropolis of Mount Dora Pipe Band marches and Trinity Christian College’s parade theme-winning float rolls in final 12 months’s parade. (PHOTO COURTESY OF FOLIAGE SERTOMA CLUB OF APOPKA)Leisure: 2022 HEntertainment: 2022 H
seventieth Annual Ye Olde Hometown Christmas Parade
Dec. 3
At 70 years, Winter Park’s vacation parade is the oldest in Central Florida. It’s an enormous deal, and the celebration rolls for an hour and a half.
The parade attracts hundreds alongside its route from Park Avenue south to New England Avenue, the place it finishes at Hannibal Sq.. Over 80 organizations participate, together with scout troops, elected officers, dignitaries, marching bands, and colleges, resembling Winter Park Excessive College and Full Sail College.
Parade sponsor The Winter Park Chamber of Commerce is presenting its particular float this 12 months, one that asserts an upcoming milestone.
“The Winter Park Chamber of Commerce turns 100 in 2023, and we are going to kick off that celebration with a Centennial float carrying our present and previous board chairs on the Ye Olde Hometown Christmas Parade,” says chamber President and CEO Betsy Gardner Eckbert.
This 12 months’s Grand Marshal is David Odahowski, president and CEO of the Edyth Bush Charitable Basis. Emceeing the motion is the always-entertaining Scott Maxwell, an Orlando Sentinel columnist.
They invite parade contributors and viewers to get up to a pancake breakfast with all of the fixings at 7 a.m. in Central Park, hosted by the chamber’s Management Winter Park workforce. 9 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 3. winterpark.org CV
forty sixth Annual Apopka Christmas Parade
Dec. 10
The Apopka Christmas Parade is among the premier group occasions of the 12 months and simply attracts over 25,000 folks every December to see the rolling celebration.
For some perspective, town has a inhabitants of about 57,000 folks. So, a crowd of just about half the inhabitants measurement flocks to the Indoor Foliage Capital of the World to immerse themselves within the pleasure of one of many largest vacation parades in Central Florida.
The Foliage Sertoma Membership of Apopka and the Metropolis of Apopka sponsor the parade, which is judged this 12 months by Ybeth Bruzual of Spectrum Information 13 and Trudy Wild, director of Public Grants & Advocacy for United Arts of Central Florida.
“This 12 months’s parade theme is ‘A Festive Florida Christmas!’ and I’m sure we is not going to be upset in the neighborhood’s creativity on the subject of parade entries,” says Lorena Potter, membership president, and parade chairperson.
The parade begins at 10 a.m., and spectators line Park Avenue not less than two hours earlier than for one of the best viewing and odds of catching vacation goodies being handed out by contributors. 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 10. foliagesertoma.org CV
HOLIDAY PARADES
AVALON AGLOW PARADE
Dec. 3, 3-9 p.m. avalonparkorlando.com
55TH ANNUAL LEESBURG CHRISTMAS PARADE
Dec. 3, 6-9 p.m. leesburgpartnership.com
DELAND ROTARY CHRISTMAS PARADE
Dec. 3, 6 p.m. mainstreetdeland.org
LIGHT UP CLERMONT HOLIDAY PARADE
Dec. 3, 10 a.m. clermontfl.gov
LONGWOOD CHRISTMAS PARADE
Dec. 3, 3 p.m. longwoodfl.org
MOUNT DORA CHRISTMAS PARADE
Dec. 3, 10 a.m. mountdora.com
OVIEDO CHRISTMAS PARADE
Dec. 3, 7 p.m. cityofoviedo.net
WINTER GARDEN CHRISTMAS PARADE
Dec. 3, 10 a.m. cwgdn.com
WINTER WONDERLAND PARADE 2022
Dec. 3, 4:30 p.m. winterspringsfl.org
SANFORD PARADE OF LIGHTS
Dec. 10, 6 p.m. sanfordfl.gov
CHRISTMAS BOAT PARADES COCOA BEACH BOAT PARADE
Dec. 10, 6 p.m. cocoabeachrotary.org
MOUNT DORA LIGHTED BOAT PARADE
Dec. 3, 6-9 p.m. rustyanchormountdora.com
WINTER PARK BOAT PARADE
Dec. 11, 6:30 p.m. winterparkrotary.com
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