{"id":48977,"date":"2025-11-12T02:10:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/48977\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:10:24","slug":"veterans-day-parade-coordinator-says-to-celebrate-families-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/48977\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day parade coordinator says to celebrate families too"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 106th Veterans Day parade in Bakersfield celebrated service members and their families with a theme of “Our Veterans, Our Families, Our Heroes.”<\/p>\n

Ricardo Ybarra, known as “Chief,” is in his 15th year as parade coordinator. A U.S. Navy veteran of 21 years, Ybarra emphasized the importance of recognizing families alongside veterans.<\/p>\n

“When a veteran goes on deployment, it’s not just the veterans who go on deployment, so is the family,” he said. “Don’t just thank the veterans, thank the families as well.”<\/p>\n

The parade drew families to downtown Bakersfield. There were celebrations at Liberty Park on Monday morning. On Tuesday morning, Veterans enjoyed a free breakfast at American Legion Post 26 before the parade and returned for lunch as the event concluded.<\/p>\n

\"Jacquie<\/p>\n

Jacquie Sullivan was the grand marshal of the Veterans Day parade. (KBAK\/KBFX)<\/p>\n

Phil Petty, general manager of Williams Cleaning Systems, expressed his gratitude for the opportunity to support the community.<\/p>\n

“This event? Is the fact that it’s giving back to the community. It’s huge,” he said.<\/p>\n

Williams Cleaning Systems provided food for over 700 attendees, serving burgers and tri-tip sandwiches.<\/p>\n

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Reflecting on the day’s success, Ybarra said, “Right now, I’m just chilling. The parade is over, and everything went well. What more can I ask for?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 106th Veterans Day parade in Bakersfield celebrated service members and their families with a theme of “Our…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-48977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}