Exchange Club volunteers are busy planning this year’s Fourth of July parade, arguably Lake Highlands’ flagship community celebration (although their recent addition, Oktoberfest, is ready now to compete for the title). It will, indeed, be held on July 4th (a Thursday this year), with seemingly every LH soul not on vacation or at the lake in attendance.
The parade will begin at 9 a.m. in front of North Highlands Bible Church, 9626 Church Road (across from the LHHS tennis courts) and proceed down Church in front of the high school. The end point is the Lake Highlands North Recreation Center, where food, games, musical performers and entertainment for all ages await. The merriment continues until noon.
Neighborhood participants and organizations are encouraged to enter “floats” in the parade (which vary widely from decorated cars to flatbed trailers), and awards will be given in various categories. (Judging begins at 8:30.) Young children with bikes and wagons decked out in red-white-and-blue are a traditional part of the fun, as well as fire engines, antique cars, clowns on tiny bikes and Uncle Sam on stilts.
Only in Lake Highlands.
You can see a slideshow of my photos from last year’s parade here, and see photos, circa 1990, here.
If you’d like to participate in or support the parade, you can email the Exchange Club’s Kelly Jones at kellyjones61@gmail.com.
