There are already 22 organizations signed up to be in this year’s Juneau Fourth of July Parade, and there’s still time for others to apply.
This coming Sunday marks the deadline to apply to be in the Juneau Fourth of July Parade. Entry forms are available at Cycle Alaska or at the Mendenhall Valley Library. According to the parade’s website, the organizers will still be able to find a place for people who don’t apply in time, but those people will “have a few more hoops to jump through.”
The theme of this year’s parade is “Our Heritage,” with four grand marshals: Selina Everson, who teached Tlingit to children at Harborview Elementary School; Bea Findlay, who calls herself the world’s oldest drum major at age 70; Rosa Miller, the tribal leader of the Áak’w Kwáan; and Jim Triplette of Triplette Construction.
The parade is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. on July 4, going through the streets of downtown Juneau. At 2 p.m. that day, the Douglas Parade starts at Gastineau Elementary Shool. There is no deadline to apply to enter the Douglas Parade. The Douglas Parade Grand Marshals are Wayne Jensen, Paulette Simpson and Linda Snow.
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that there was a deadlien to apply to the to participate in the Douglas Fourth of July Parade. There is no such deadline. The Empire regrets the error.
