Sentences with phrase «as grand marshals»

Councilmen Jimmy Van Bramer and Daniel Dromm speak at a press conference outside Dromm's office after being selected as grand marshals of Sunday's Queens Gay Pride Parade.

The singer first met with NASCAR officials in July 2001, when she served as the grand marshal at the Pepsi 400.

This year, the first festival chairman, Arlington Heights Trustee Dwight Walton, will be honored as the grand marshal of the 4th of July parade, where he will lead the procession of marching bands, scout troops, veterans, firetrucks and floats.

Throngs of spectators crowded along the sidewalks on Fifth Avenue, waving rainbow - colored flags as participants including Cyndi Lauper as grand marshal, went by.

John Zuccotti (right) marched in the 2011 Veterans Day Parade, where he was honored as grand marshal, along with then Mayor Mike Bloomberg (center).

Cuomo is due back in Albany later today after appearing at the Greek Independence Day Parade in his role as grand marshal.

George J. Mitchell, the former Senate majority leader who presided over negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement and power sharing in Northern Ireland, has been chosen as the grand marshal for this year's St. Patrick's Day Parade in NYC.

The parade itself will take place from noon until 5 p.m., running along Grand Concourse from Tremont Avenue to 167th Street with Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. serving as the grand marshal.

George J. Mitchell, the former Senate majority leader who presided over negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement and power sharing in Northern Ireland, has been chosen as the grand marshal for this year's St. Patrick's Day Parade.

«You have to get yourself ready for that,» said Spade, who served as grand marshal for the Coke Zero 400.

He served as grand marshal the Battle of Flowers Parade in 2013.

In 2006, Ali, long known for his outspoken views on white racism and his much publicized Muslim faith, served as grand marshal of the Kentucky Derby Festival's Pegasus Parade, and received a hero's reception.

Legendary automotive designer Chip Foose will again serve as grand marshal of the Show «N Shine.

No holiday parade would be complete without an appearance by Old St. Nick, who has found time in his busy schedule to make a stop in Temecula and act as the grand marshal of the event named in his honor.

Not exact matches

He represented the area's large Hispanic population as honorary grand marshal of San Jose's Cinco de Mayo Parade (a Mexican celebration of liberty), and on San Jose's freeways Perez finds more and more people he doesn't know honking at him as he tools along in his red Hyundai.

This years St. Paddy's Day Parade will honor twenty late Irish Americans as honorary grand marshals.

This year's grand marshal was astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who served as the pilot for the Apollo 11 mission and was one of the first people to walk on the moon.

Educational leaders such as Horace Mann headed parades that proceeded on routes selected by the marchers, not the grand marshal.»