42^nd Annual Rowland Heights Buckboard Parade and Festival

Final Call for Parade Entries This Friday for October 18 Event

ROWLAND HEIGHTS, CA – OCTOBER 6, 2014 – Don’t miss the opportunity to appear in this year’s 42^nd Annual Buckboard Days Parade and Festival on Saturday, October 18, 2014 in Rowland Heights! The parade is co-organized by the Rowland Heights Chinese Association and the Rowland Heights Community Coordinating Council. The final deadline to appear in the Buckboard Parade is this Friday, October 10, 2014. Parade applications can be found at www.buckboarddaysparade.org and emailed to [email protected]. (*Or Download below!) There is no parade entry fee for community organizations and individuals. There is a $50 fee for each commercial or business application.           

            The parade will feature a variety of local school bands and student performance groups, community organizations, equestrian groups, floats and the Wells Fargo Stage Coach. (See sample of participants to date below). The theme for this year’s parade is “Nature in Our Own Backyard” and local environmental scientist and educator/Rowland Unified School District Parent Kimo Morris, Ph.D., is this year’s Parade Grand Marshal. The parade begins at 9 a.m. at the corner of Nogales and Colima and will conclude at Rowland Heights County Park.

            Following the parade will be a Family Festival at Rowland Heights County Park from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. with more than 45 booths offering handmade arts and crafts, food, community information and services organized by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation.

            The Hacienda Heights Kiwanis will be sponsoring a pancake breakfast before the parade, starting at 7 a.m. Come early and enjoy breakfast at the Bell Memorial Church parking lot on Nogales near the corner of Colima (1747 Nogales St, Rowland Heights). Breakfast is $5 per person.

Parade Co-Chairs are Rachel Fung, Rowland Heights Chinese Association and John Grant, Rowland Heights Community Coordinating Council.

If Your Organization is Missing from the List Below – It’s Not Too Late to Sign Up! www.buckboarddaysparade.org

                        Buckboard Parade Entries To Date

BUCKBOARD DAYS PARADE SPONSORS: Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe, Los Angeles Parks & Recreation, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and California Highway Patrol, First General Bank, Aera Energy, LLC, Southern California Edison, Henry Woo Architects, Rowland Water District, Walnut Valley Water, Southlands Christian Schools, Advanced Martial Arts, SK Taekwondo School, and the Shaolin Temple Cultural Center.