This year will have a historic theme as the annual Santa Claus Parade rolls through downtown Chatham on Friday.
Organized by the Historic Downtown Chatham BIA, the event will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Connie Beneteau, office administrator for the BIA, said plans have been coming together well so far.
“We’ve got lots of floats coming in,” she said. “We have tons of people participating on the floats. I had over 800 people participating in it.”
Beneteau said the historic theme can be anything from previous decades, or even Victorian times.
Several community groups will be collecting non-perishable goods and teddy bears during the parade.
Beginning at 4:30 p.m., floats will be staging on Sandys Streets at Evangel Community Church.
The route will make its way over the Lacroix Street bridge, then down King Street, finishing up at the WISH Centre, where kids can meet Santa.
Beneteau expects it will be more efficient to have the staging back on Sandys Street, especially given the current weight restriction on the Third Street bridge.
“It would have restricted about 50 per cent of my floats,” she said. “Anything with a transport truck, or the fire trucks. All of them wouldn’t have been able to go over the Third Street bridge.”
For more information on the parade, visit www.downtownchatham.ca
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