Excitement Builds for 2016 Keysville Christmas Parade

KEYSVILLE – Bundle up everyone for the sensational Keysville Christmas Parade taking place on Friday, December 2, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. (Line up begins at 6:00 p.m. near The Wayland Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.)  Larry Dunn of Keysville will be recognized by the Town of Keysville with the distinguished honor of being named the 2016 Grand Marshall for the parade.

More than 60 units have entered the parade and are working diligently to put the final touches on their floats, polish their emergency and show vehicles, synchronize their cheering and dance routines, perfect their marching bands, and tame their horses!  Free books will be given out to children along the parade route by the Virginia Children’s Book Festival, and those amazing Shriners will be all over the street in their miniature cars!   News from the North Pole says Santa Claus is planning to make a visit and hopes you will join him after the parade in The Tea Room (Old Tri County Building) on Main Street.  Besides visiting with Santa and sharing your Christmas wishes, you will get a glimpse of their new restaurant, “The Tea Room,” which will be coming soon!

Judges for this year’s parade will be Linda Conkwright, Barry Mason, C. B. Rickmond, and Bob Rietzke.  Winners for each category will be announced at the judges’ stand immediately after the parade.  Please have someone from each organization being judged report to the stand to receive the trophy or award.

Please remember to stay behind the roped off areas for the safety of everyone. All emergency vehicles are not to use sirens during the parade as a courtesy to other participants.

What better way to get in the Christmas spirit than enjoying the first Christmas parade of the season!  Hope to see you there!

Our all-star lineup
includes:

• American Heritage Girls

• American Legion and VFW Posts

• Ash Camp Baptist Preschool

• Bacon District & Eureka Elementary

     Schools

• Central High School Marching Band

• Charlotte County Grays

• Charlotte County Youth Football

   League Cheerleaders

• CMS Cheerleaders

• County Pageant Winners

• Dr. Campbell & Dr. Rutherford
   & SBCox

• Emergency Vehicles

• Emmanuel Bible Church

• Eureka Ecology Club

• Float in Memory of Raymond L. Hicks

• Girl Scout & Boy Scout Troops

• Grace Community Church

• Horses

• Jazzy Cheerleaders

• Keysville Ruritans

• Keysville United Methodist Church

• Pamplin Youth Association

• Randolph-Henry Marching Band

• Relay for Life Teams

• Santa Claus

• Show Vehicles (Jack & Kary Reynolds, Styles & Smiles Hair Salon, David Cassada, SEC, Ol’ School Cruisers Motorcycle Club, WFLO, Tri-County)

• Southside Shrine Club

• Special Olympics

• Strikeforce Tire

• United Daughters of the Confederacy

• Virginia Children’s Book Festival