CINCO DE MAYO FESTIVAL ON SUNDAY.Byline: Daily News LAKE LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. - Lake Los Angeles will host Sunday its sixth annual Cinco de Mayo Cinco de Mayo (Spanish; “Fifth of May”) Mexican holiday commemorating the Mexican victory over the French at Puebla in 1862. The French army, better-equipped and far larger than the Mexican army, had been sent by Napoleon III to conquer Mexico. parade and festival. The parade - featuring equestrians, pageant queens, a drill team, community leaders and entries by local businesses - will start at noon at Lake Los Angeles Avenue and run north on 170th Street East to Avenue O. The festival follows the parade and runs until 9 p.m. at the Saddleback Saddleback see Wessex saddleback. shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into at Avenue O and 170th Street East. Folklorico dancers, mariachi and norteno groups will perform. Sponsors include Oso Market, the Hitching Post, Saddleback Market and Los Chiles restaurant. |
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