Parade

Parade Time: Decorate the Float and Participate in the Parade

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Meet to Decorate the Parade Float

Meet at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, July 26 at Construction Supply House in Berthoud (806 North 2nd Street, Berthoud Colorado) to decorate the parade float. Bring a t-shirt to decorate as a farm animal if you wish. We’ll have markers available.

Our club will supply pizza. Bring your water bottle or something to drink, and also bring chairs!

The organizational leaders are ready to sign your record books! Bring them on Friday to have them reviewed and signed so you’re all ready for Interview Judging on Tuesday.

Parade Day!

The parade is on Saturday, July 27 beginning at 9:30 a.m. Our float will be near the beginning of the parade: #8 for the club and #9 for the Cloverbuds. We will need to be all ready to roll at 9:30 a.m.!

Wear the t-shirt you decorate or your 4-H club shirt. It will probably be hot, so bring your water bottle, and remember your sunscreen and a hat.

Plan to park at Barnes Softball Park and walk the trail to Fairgrounds Park to find our floats, probably parked along the side of Railroad Avenue/Roosevelt Avenue. Meet at the floats at 8:45 a.m. Vehicles will not be allowed to enter and drop off members or supplies in the staging area to keep things less congested and safer for those prepping parade floats. (See the map below for the parking lot location and general location of the parade float.)

We’ll have candy to pass out. We can’t throw it from the float, but we can walk the route and hand out candy.

We would love to have more parents help on the float and walking in the parade. Our parade committee is outnumbered by 4-H members and it’s a large “herd” to wrangle without help!

Family members are welcome to sit and watch the parade as a group. Members can watch the remainder of the parade after the float finishes the route. We will be sitting at the house at 246 South Cleveland. Bring your chairs and look for the HCH group.

Parade Lineup Information

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Our parade floats will be #16 and #17 in the lineup. We will be staged on the east side of Roosevelt/Railroad Avenue.

There will be shuttles providing rides from the Barnes Softball Park parking lots, or you can walk across to Fairgrounds Park to find our floats. Here’s a map with parade participant parking marked.

The Parade and our Club Float

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Decorating for the Float

This Friday, July 28 at 6:00 p.m., we’ll meet at Cindy’s shop (Construction Supply House, 806 North 2nd Street in Berthoud) to create decorations for our club’s parade float.

The club will supply pizza. Bring your water bottle or something to drink.

You can also bring your record books to be reviewed and signed.

Larimer County Fair Parade

All members are invited to participate with our club in the Larimer County Fair Parade on Saturday, July 29 at 9:30 a.m. We will have our club float, a float for the Cloverbuds, and members can choose to walk and pass out candy. (Candy cannot be thrown from the float, it must be handed out.)

The theme for the parade is Through the Decades. Members can dress like 4-Hers through the years, or wear their club shirts.
Be sure to wear sunscreen, bring a hat, and bring a water bottle.

The float will be parked on Railroad Avenue, headed toward First Street. It’s easiest to park at the Barnes Softball Park and walk across to Fairgrounds Park and Railroad Avenue.

Please plan to have your kids on the float between 9:00–9:20 a.m.

Parents are welcome to sit and watch the parade as a group, then pick up their members after the parade. We will be sitting at the house at 246 South Cleveland. Bring your chairs and look for the HCH group.

Float Building and Parade Day Information

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From Cindy

Families, please find our float and be on it by 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 30. The parade will begin at 9:30 a.m.

The parade lineup will be on South Railroad Avenue at Fairgrounds Park. We are #27 and #28 in the lineup. The best place to park is at Barnes Park. You can then walk to Fairgrounds Park on the bike/walking trail to board the float. (Keep in mind that West First Street is closed.)

There will be a cooler of bottled water on the floats for the kids.

Thank you to the Cumpsten Family and Ryan Family for getting the trailers and pulling the floats.

Parents are welcome to ride on the float. Or if you plan to watch, we own a property at 246 South Cleveland, directly across the street from the former school district warehouse. Many of us sit here since it is near the end of the parade route. Feel free join us…bring your chairs and a plastic bag to gather candy. (The location is noted as HCH with the 4-H Clover on the map.)

Decorating the Float:

We are decorating the float on Friday evening at 6:00 p.m. at Construction Supply House, 806 North 2nd Street in Berthoud. Pizza and water will be provided, or you can bring your own drink. Please RSVP if you will attend so that we can order enough pizza for everyone. Also bring completed record books you would like to have signed.

RSVP for Pizza

From the Parade Float Committee

Hi, parents!

We are excited to see you tomorrow night for our club’s parade float build!

This year’s theme is: 

Cowboy Boots and Country Roots

Our float design will have 3 trees (roots) in the center, surrounded by hay bales for the kids to sit on.

Each 4-H member will design (color) one cowboy boot, or more if they want. The boots will decorate the edge of the float.

Kids and parents are also encouraged to complete a 4-H Generation sign to carry and wave in the parade. (How many generations has your family participated in 4-H? We love having the 4-H legacy live on, and start anew!)

If you have cowboy boots and a club t-shirt, please wear them to the parade!  
(No worries if your kids have outgrown boots or t-shirts—they grow so fast! 🤯😂)

Can’t wait to see you!

From,

The HCH Parade Float Committee

Submit Ideas for 2022 Fair Parade

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Do you have an idea for this summer’s Fair Parade theme? The Larimer County fair board is asking for submissions. The winning theme will be announced at the 4-H Carnival on March 5, so start brainstorming!

Email your ideas to info@hch4h.org and we’ll submit them as a club.

Parade News

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We are parade entries #39 and #39A. There are a total of 49 entries. The parade starts at 9:30 a.m. so please arrive at the float no later than 9:30 a.m.

Stephanie Lynch, Joseie Bielenberg, and Hanna Copeland are the parents in charge along with Lacey Adams for the Cloverbuds. If any parents want to ride the float, they are welcome to do that. And younger siblings can ride as long as they have an older sibling capable of watching them.

Parking is in the Barnes softball field complex. We own property at 246 South Cleveland, which is across the street from the School District building. There is plenty of space to park your chair to watch. If you are watching the parade and you have little ones, remember to bring a bag for gathering candy!

The club float trailer is being pulled by the Grundys—it is BLACK PICKUP.

The Cloverbud trailer is being pulled by my brother Bruce Hayward (William and Lilly’s Grandpa)—he has a PURPLE JEEP.

Remember to bring water bottles. (We will also have water available.) If a few want to walk, we have our club banner and candy to pass out. Make sure kids have applied sunscreen. Wear a club t-shirt if you have one, if not no worries. Just remember 4-H dress code (shorts should be mid-thigh). And will be sitting on hay bales.

We’re decorating the float tomorrow night, Friday, July 30, starting at 6:00 at Construction Supply House (806 North 2nd Street, Berthoud). Also, bring your record books for signature if they are ready.

Decorate the Fair Float this Friday

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The Larimer County Fair Parade is on Saturday, July 31 at 9:30 a.m. Our club will be meeting at Cindy’s shop in Berthoud on Friday evening at 6:00 p.m. to decorate our float…and eat pizza. Plan to join us!

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