Posted on Jun 3, 2022
First Rose Festival Parade in two years happening Saturday in Portland
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The Starlight Parade’s new route is contained to downtown
Portland’s Rose Festival parades are back this year for the first time since 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic sidelined the Starlight, Grand Floral and Junior parades last year and the year before.
Rose Fest “Parade Queen” Marilyn Clint said organizing the festival’s return has been a huge task, and big changes are coming this time around. This year’s theme is “Rose City Reunion.”
“We’ve had to reinvent ourselves for a new time,” she said. “The business of making a comeback — it’s serious. You have to take so much into consideration.”
Portland’s Rose Festival parades are back this year for the first time since 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic sidelined the Starlight, Grand Floral and Junior parades last year and the year before.
Rose Fest “Parade Queen” Marilyn Clint said organizing the festival’s return has been a huge task, and big changes are coming this time around. This year’s theme is “Rose City Reunion.”
“We’ve had to reinvent ourselves for a new time,” she said. “The business of making a comeback — it’s serious. You have to take so much into consideration.”
First Rose Festival Parade in two years happening Saturday in Portland
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..."“It’s more of a community kind of parade,” Jarvis said. “We get a lot of different communities represented in the Starlight and love coming to town and being a part of this.”
For that reason, as well as staffing, Jarvis says the Grand Floral Parade will have a different and shorter route this year, staying on the east side of the Willamette River. It will still start at Memorial Coliseum as usual, heading down Weidler and going south down Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., east on Lloyd Blvd. before ending at the Lloyd Center."...
..."“It’s more of a community kind of parade,” Jarvis said. “We get a lot of different communities represented in the Starlight and love coming to town and being a part of this.”
For that reason, as well as staffing, Jarvis says the Grand Floral Parade will have a different and shorter route this year, staying on the east side of the Willamette River. It will still start at Memorial Coliseum as usual, heading down Weidler and going south down Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., east on Lloyd Blvd. before ending at the Lloyd Center."...
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