MOTORCYCLE ESCORT TO INCREASE FOR SANTA.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Santa Claus Santa Claus: see Nicholas, Saint. Santa Claus jolly, gift-giving figure who visits children on Christmas Eve. [Christian Tradition: NCE, 1937] See : Christmas Santa Claus will bring up the rear as usual Saturday, but Palmdale's annual Christmas parade will start off with something different out front. Leading the parade will be a much bigger motorized mo·tor·ize tr.v. mo·tor·ized, mo·tor·iz·ing, mo·tor·iz·es 1. To equip with a motor. 2. To supply with motor-driven vehicles. 3. To provide with automobiles. escort than there was last year. Decorated for the holidays, 200 motorcycles will lead the parade. ``It's going to be spectacular,'' said the Palmdale Chamber of Commerce's chief executive officer, Isaac Barcelona. Chamber Chairman Ron Emard, a motorcycle enthusiast and co-owner of the local Harley-Davidson dealership, will be at the head of the pack in which 50 motorcyclists rode last year. The Christmas parade, named for William J. ``Pete'' Knight, the deceased state senator Noun 1. state senator - a member of a state senate senator - a member of a senate and Palmdale mayor, will begin at 10 a.m. on Palmdale Boulevard at 20th Street East, then run west to 10th Street East. The parade will feature about 120 bands, floats, youth groups, car clubs and other organizations. After it ends, the chamber's annual holiday festival will be held from noon to 3 p.m. in the civic center's Poncitlan Square at Ninth Street East and Avenue Q-9. At the festival, there will be food booths and crafts and games for children. Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus Mrs. Claus is a folk hero, and is the wife of Santa Claus in many modern versions of the Santa Claus legend. In many current versions of the mythos, Mrs. Claus lives with her husband and assists with the production of Santa's toys, sometimes overseeing their production by will pose for photos in the square gazebo gazebo Lookout in the form of a turret, cupola (small, lanternlike dome), or garden house set on a height to give an extensive view. Few late-18th- and 19th-century rustic gazebos survive, but 17th-century turrets built up in an angle of the garden wall are not uncommon. , and Mayor Jim Ledford will read Christmas stories on the gazebo steps. Palmdale High School's chamber singers will perform, and other holiday music will be provided by disc jockey disc jockey (DJ) Person who plays recorded music on radio or television or at a nightclub or other live venue. Disc jockey programs became the economic base of many radio stations in the U.S. after World War II. Mark Vincent. |
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