Christmas Parade - Aid

Major social/cultural events define a town that hosts them. How they form, grow, are maintained, and the people who participate are definitive because nothing that important can exist in a vacuum. For example, children who march in the annual Christmas parade probably perform better in school because they are brought lovingly into the community fold. Studies on student volunteer programs confirm this. Cities with high performing schools are highly desirable places to live, so cities with superior events do more than entertain, they enhance home values.

Street Fair, First Night, Grape Day, and Cruising Grand are events which will be discussed in Your Escondido Home in the future, but until this morning's announcement that the police presence at the 2008 Escondido Christmas Parade would be funded by a donation from the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians, it appeared that that event would be cancelled. Perhaps the marching bands had played their last note on North Broadway. This morning, in fact, the Jaycees were still posting that the 2008 Escondido Christmas Parade would be postponed until 2009.

Now that this year's parade has a pulse, consider not only attending - 9:30 AM, December 13, 2008 - but also volunteering to help, or possibly even joining the Escondido Jaycees as a member. The next parade meeting will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Cocina del Charro, 525 N. Quince St.