Canton Optimist Club Annual Christmas Parade
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Gold Sponsors: SouthState Bank and Credit Union of Georgia
Canton Optimist Club
2023 36th ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARADE
36th Annual Christmas Parade on December 9, 2023 at 6:00 p.m.
Canton Optimist Christmas Parade Registration
All participants and guests are asked to bring a canned food item for the Cherokee Schools Food Pantries. We will collect the donations at both the parade staging location and at the gazebo area in Cannon Park. All donations will go to serve Cherokee Country children.
Parade Information Detailed Below:
Weather
Candy
Floats and Most Vehicles Staging
Walkers and Some Vehicles Staging
1 Weather - The parade will go on Saturday.
2 Candy - Do not distribute candy from the parade until your group has reached Academy Street in the route. This is for safety reasons.
3 Floats and Most Vehicles Staging
STAGING AT CHEROKEE HIGH SCHOOL WILL BEGIN AT 3:30.
PLEASE DO NOT ARRIVE FOR STAGING BEFORE 3:30.
Entries in Red Have Not Paid the Entry Fee
Enter CHS at the traffic light intersection. You will be directed to where you should go at Checkpoint 1. See the map below. Please know your Parade Order # and provide that to us when you check in. That will help us direct you more quickly.
Parade Order # Lineup Space # Entry Name
2 437 Credit Union
3 436 Canton Optimist Club
4 435 T & J Fowl Farm
5 434 Blake
7 433 Creekland Middle School-American Sign Language Club
8 432 St. Clement's Episcopal Church
11 431 DT Chiropractic
12 430 Canton Waleska Flowers and Gifts
13 429 The Bone Family
14 428 Wade armour
15 427 Miss Cherokee County
16 426 Toss N' Haul Dump Trailer Rental LLC
17 425 Sequoyah Regional Library System / RT Jones Memorial Library
18 424 High Pressure Rescue LLC
19 423 Girl Scout troop 22178
20 422 3B Land Solutions
21 421 Atlanta Premier Perry Fastpitch Softball
22 420 Helping hands helping others out of Canton Georgia
23 417/418/419 Aspire Dance Arts
24 413/414/415/416 Kinetic by Windstream
25 412 Cub Scout pack 752
26 386 Millwood’s Mobile
27 387 North GA Trailer
28 388 Hercules Welding
29 389 The Breanna Leigh Chadwick Memorial Foundation
30 390 Ivar Automotive
31 391/392 Ark Restoration
32 393/394 ServiceMaster by Bailey
33 395 Canton Rotary Club
34 396 Discovery Point Hickory Flat
34 397 Cub Scout Pack 241
36 398 East Cherokee Soccer Club
37 399 HANDY HENRY'S SANTA'S WORKSHOP
38 400 MIB DragonCon Parade Crew
39 401 Burns Smith Law, P.C.
40 402 The Grinch and Crew
42 403/404/405 Avery Cubs Chorus
43 406 Genuine Electric
44 407 Down South Land management
46 408 Cherokee County Republican Party
47 409 GI Junk Guy
48 410 Spears Landscape Management
49 411 Palmetto Moon
50 464 - 499 Cherokee County Jeepers
51 506 - 515 Girl Scouts of Cherokee County
52 505 Shriners
53 504 Shriners
54 503 Shane’s Paint and Body
55 502
56 500-501 Edwards and Cox Family
57 345 - 359 Georgia Bounty Runners 4wheel Drive Club
58 Parallel Park 1 Hickory Flat Optimist Club and Cherokee County Special Olympics
59 Parallel Park 2 Rock Springs Baptist Church Youth Group
60 Parallel Park 3 Synovus Bank
61 Parallel Park 4 Howell Grading
62 Parallel Park 5 Patriot Towing Services
63 Parallel Park 6 All South Grading and Concrete
64 344 GA Army National Guard
4 Walkers and Some Vehicles Staging
STAGING AT WEST MAIN STREET WILL BEGIN AT 4:00.
Entries in Red Have Not Paid the Entry Fee.
West Main St will be blocked to traffic. You may park around City Hall, Brown Park, or behind the court houses on North St. One of our volunteers at West Main will direct you to your location. Please know your Parade Order # and provide that to us when you check in. That will help us direct you more quickly.
Parade Order # Lineup Space # Entry Name
1 West Main 1 Cherokee HS Air Force JROTC
6 West Main 2 Hasty Elementary’s American Sign Language Club
7 West Main 3 Ceeekland Middle School-American Sign Language Club
9 West Main 4 RM Moore Elementary School STEM Academy
10 West Main 5 Cub Scout Pack 1153
11 West Main 6 DT Chiropractic
20 West Main 7 3B Land Solutions
31 West Main 8 Ark Restoration
33 West Main 9 Rotary Kids Club from Teasley Middle School
36 West Main 10 East Cherokee Soccer Club
39 West Main 11 Burns Smith Law, P.C.
41 West Main 12 Tribal Force Cadet Corps (formerly known as Fort Phoenix)
42 West Main 13 Avery Cubs Chorus
45 West Main 14 Po Boys Car Club