Rotary Club of Jacksonville is seeking participants for its annual Fourth of July parade.<\/p>\n
The parade, which will be July 4, will have the theme \u201cCelebrating Freedom, Service and Impact,\u201d according to the club.<\/p>\n
The theme honors those \u201cwho willingly unite to build strong connections within our local and regional communities, creating a significant, positive, and lasting impact,\u201d according to the club.<\/p>\n
Rabbi Rob and Lauren Thomas will serve as parade marshals.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease join us in celebrating all those who willingly support and engage in local and regional community service,\u201d Rotarian Joan\u00a0McQuillan said. \u201cTheir efforts to network and collaborate are creating opportunities and positively impacting our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
The parade will step off from Morgan County Fairgrounds and proceed along Grand Avenue before heading east on West State Street. It will travel around the downtown square and exit onto North Main Street before ending at Douglas Avenue.<\/p>\n
Day-of registration will be from 8:30 to 9:45 a.m. at the fairgrounds\u2019 southwest gate at South Westgate Avenue and Horsebarn Road. Lineup will be along Grandstand Road on the fairgrounds. Floats and long vehicles must arrive by 9 a.m.<\/p>\n
One person representing each parade entry must check in to receive a lineup number and any last-minute details. All vehicles in multi-vehicle entries\u00a0must check in together.<\/p>\n
Those who haven\u2019t pre-registered can\u2019t be guaranteed a place in the parade.<\/p>\n
Vehicles and drivers must be properly insured and drivers must be at least 25 years old and have a valid driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rotary Club of Jacksonville is seeking participants for its annual Fourth of July parade. The parade, which will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,115,96365,278],"class_list":["post-297031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-news","tag-regional-events","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}