41st ANNUAL KAMLOOPS EASTER PARADE 2011 Easter Parade Chairman Dick Parkes Photos by Dave Dickinson |
Each year we start our Easter Parade Sunday off with a Pancake Breakfast in Westsyde Park. With Easter being later this year the weather was fantastic which made for a great way to start the day. |
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![]() Steve Bell & Don Potts wait for the crowd to appear |
![]() The club cook trailer comes in very handy as we also use it for our Swap Meets |
![]() Steve starts the pancakes to cooking |
![]() While Don checks them out |
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Niki Bone, Vicky Wallin, Keith Galbraith & John Rostron wait until breakfast is called | |
![]() Marilyn & Gerry Gerow are talking to Ernie McNaughton [the collector of the $4.00 breakfast fee] |
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![]() Vicky & Noella watch while Jerry eats his breakfast |
![]() Appears that Barb is keeping and eye on her dad (Ron Buck) |
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Following the pancake
breakfast the cars line up at the Westsyde Mall with
the parade starting at 1:00 pm.
Each year we have a different marque as the feature car and this year it was "Pierce Arrow". With the weather being so nice we had 132 cars which is a record for us. |
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![]() Glenn Gallagher's 1929 Pierce Arrow |
CARS GALORE from 1911 - 1986 |
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Clubs 1945 Ford Wrecker towing Jerry Wallin's 100 year old 1911 McLaughlin | |
![]() Parade Marshall Dick Parkes 1938 McLaughlin-Buick |
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![]() Clubs 1937 Ford LaFrance Fire Truck |
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![]() Very Rare 1932 Rockne |
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![]() Chapter President Bob Gieselman |
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![]() The Kamloops Shrine Club Keystone Kops. They have been great supporters of our Easter Parade. |
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![]() Doesn't look like the bad guy is too worried. |
![]() The RCMP is great at keeping the parade together and moving |
![]() The Shriners Motor Corps provide traffic control at intersections for us |
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Engel & Audrey
Beaumeester have a good laugh at something. |
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![]() Seems like these cars
always have top problems as they always have their tops
open at the shows.
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![]() We had the pleasure of the Kamloops Rube Band playing for the crowd as they waited for the cars to arrive at Riverside Park. |
41st
Annual Easter Parade Summary
My thanks go
out to everyone who participated in some way in our 2011
Easter Parade. The
excellent weather resulted in a record turnout of 132
vintage vehicles driving
the usual parade route and we had good crowds at the
Westsyde Shopping Center,
along the route and at Riverside Park. Our parade could
not have happened
without the attendance of the RCMP and the RCMP
Auxiliary to provide traffic
control with assistance from the Shrine Motor Corps and
“cleanup” provided at
no cost by Mike’s Auto Towing. We thank all these good
folks for their time and
efforts. A late surprise
was the
performance at Riverside Park by the Kamloops Rube Band
which added a little
pizzazz to the event.
There were no
major problems with the parade festivities this year
other than a bit of a fire
drill at the beginning as there were about a dozen cars
already lined up before
we even got there to set up the registration tables. The
increased number of
cars entering the parade resulted in some creative
parking by the registration
guys, but it all seemed to work out fine in the end. We have been put on notice
that we may not be
able to use the Westsyde Shopping Center as our staging
area next year due to
the proposed redevelopment of the mall, so we need to
start thinking about
where we could stage our parade in the future.
Please send me your suggestions, just in case we
need to relocate next
year. All in all, another great event that our Club can be proud of. After all, how many other parades and similar events in Kamloops have lasted for 41 years? Dick Parkes rparkes@telus.net |