CITY GIVING PARADE $12,000.Byline: Daily News CANYON COUNTRY - As planners of Santa Clarita's first holiday parade continue accepting applications for the Dec. 1 extravaganza, the city has pledged $12,000 toward the effort. The City Council agreed on Tuesday night to appropriate $12,000 for the committee planning the spectacle, the same committee that puts on the community's popular Fourth of July Fourth of July, Independence Day, or July Fourth, U.S. holiday, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Celebration of it began during the American Revolution. parade each year. Rather than a patriotic display marching along the streets of Newhall, the Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, Holiday Musical Light Parade will move along Soledad Canyon Soledad Canyon is a long narrow canyon / valley located in Los Angeles County, California between the cities of Palmdale and Santa Clarita. Soledad Canyon contains the localities of Vincent, Acton, Ravenna, and Agua Dulce. Road in Canyon Country. ``We really wanted to bring a parade to Canyon Country,'' said Theresa Todd, one of the planners. ``We used to have the Frontier Days Parade on Soledad and we thought we would kind of re-create that for the community.'' The city's contribution will fund traffic control, sheriff's personnel and equipment for the parade. The parade is scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m. Entrants so far include bands from Hart, Saugus and Canyon high schools Canyon High School can refer to:
The parade will shut down the eastbound east·bound adj. Going toward the east. eastbound Adjective going towards the east Adj. 1. lanes of Soledad from Whites Canyon Road to Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling . A committee is notifying businesses along the route that traffic will be cut during the parade hours. To obtain a parade application, call Todd at (661) 299-4000. |
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