The streets of Summerlin were crowded Saturday greeting arsenic tens of thousands of radical came unneurotic nether wide skies to ticker the Las Vegas Valley’s largest Fourth of July parade.
American pridefulness was connected afloat display. Parade onlookers dressed successful red, achromatic and bluish arsenic floats featuring American flags and a bald eagle passed by. Many attendees held flags that dozens of volunteers handed retired passim the parade.
This year’s parade featured philharmonic groups, dozens of helium parade balloons and much than 70 floats — including 8 caller historically themed floats that item the Mayflower voyage, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, the sacrifices of veterans during World War II, the Declaration of Independence and the women’s suffrage movement.
Among the parade onlookers were Timothy Dutt and his wife, Loretta, from southbound Las Vegas. The couple, who are nearing status age, said they hadn’t gone to the parade for a fewer years and were looking guardant to the peculiar floats to people the 250th day of the Declaration of Independence.
Timothy Dutt besides cited Saturday’s little temperatures arsenic different crushed for attending.
“It’s lone going to beryllium 104 degrees today,” Dutt said earlier the parade started, adding that helium was amazed by the fig of radical who attended the parade.
Last year’s Independence Day had akin temperatures to Saturday, with a precocious of astir 104 degrees, but highs reached 113 successful 2024.
Saturday’s parade besides drew aggregate planetary visitors — including parade unpaid and first-timer Arthur Serod — a missionary from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Serod and a tiny radical of missionaries held up a elephantine red, achromatic and bluish prima helium parade balloon with drawstring for the astir a mile-long parade.
“I had a large time,” Serod said. “It was much amusive than work.”
Other participants included astir 30 members of Scouting America Troop 312, who marched with 2 American flags arsenic they followed with cars that had adjacent more.
For Scott Moody, an American Legion District 3 subordinate who marched with the unit Saturday, the parade is peculiar due to the fact that it symbolizes unity and community.
“We enjoyed patriotism and community,” said Moody, whose American Legion section sponsors Troop 312.
Contact Lucas Hellberg astatine lhellberg@reviewjournal.com.
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