Here is a photo sampler of some of the entrants in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Independence Day parade.
Click your mouse on any photo to enlarge it.
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- Coeur d’Alene Police –
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- Cheer the veterans!
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- Keep cheering!
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- We are free to have parades because of them!
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- Young Marines
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- Not-so-young-Marine!
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- Coeur d’Alene Commodores float. Well done!
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- Parades need floats! Good job, folks!
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- High flyers!
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- What’s a community parade without horses!
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- Here come the Shriners on their Octocycle!
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- And more horses…!
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- Boy, were they loud!
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- Some floats were towed – but they’re still floats
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- All the way from Deer Park, Washington. One very snazzy float.
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- Coeur d’Alene’s own Perfection – Nots marching band
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- The Perfection – Nots Marching Band
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- Davenport, Washington’s float. Thanks for coming, folks! Great addition to the parade.
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- Citizens for independence and freedom.
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- Local citizens marching to encourage others.
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- Harps on Fire. Yep, an all-harp marching band!
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- Harps on Fire – Keep ’em in step, Leslie!
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- Mica – Kidd Island Fire District
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- Fire Department Honor Guard
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- Forest Steel’s big, shiny truck
Fabulous photo array, Bill. Thank you for doing all that work. We missed the parade this year due to a family gathering, but your photos bring it to life!
Comment by mary — July 6, 2009 @ 11:06 am
Thanks for sharing, Bill. Good pics. I wonder is the CDA Press is going to publish the winners for judged units.
Comment by Gary Ingram — July 6, 2009 @ 7:10 pm
Mary and Gary,
Thanks for the compliments.
If the Press publishes the judging results at all, it will probably be on page 2 or 3 of the news section. I’ve never seen the results sooner than three or four days after the event, and then it would be easily missed.
Comment by Bill — July 6, 2009 @ 7:55 pm
Gary,
I just checked the Chamber of Commerce website to see if the parade winners were posted. They were not.
Comment by Bill — July 7, 2009 @ 12:22 pm
The winners were listed in today’s Press in a little news brief.
Comment by Susie Snedaker — July 8, 2009 @ 8:22 pm
Bill, Thanks for the good photos. The Deer Park float won first prize in their category.
Comment by Susie Snedaker — July 8, 2009 @ 8:25 pm