Sentences with phrase «homecoming parade»
A "homecoming parade" is a festive event that happens in a hometown or a school to celebrate and welcome back someone or a group of people who have been away. It usually involves colorful floats, music, and people lining the streets to show their support and excitement. Full definition
(Photos: Stubby in an April, 1919 homecoming parade for World War I veterans in Hartford, courtesy Connecticut State Library, via AP)
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The NASCAR superstars will still be driving their gas - guzzling Impalas in races, but they did take part in the Chevrolet Volt Homecoming Parade down Detroit's Woodward Avenue on August 18, where Chevy pitched the Volt as its new «classic car.»
All will participate in the spirited homecoming parade.
SARANAC LAKE Hundreds of children from civic and athletic clubs escorted Olympians in a brightly bannered homecoming parade last week.
I showed clips of Howard University Greek step show, Morris Brown Homecoming parade, Harvard's student life departments and several other college and universities across the Nation.
It was formed in the summer of 2009 after a group of radical Muslims protested during a homecoming parade for British troops.
Douglas remembers when light welterweight Jerry Page, a fellow Columbus native, won an Olympic gold medal in 1984, and the city organized a homecoming parade.
The Klan had risen to such popularity and prominence on the University of Minnesota campus that it entered a float in that fall's homecoming parade.
Later that night Sullivan twirled her way down College Avenue in the homecoming parade, past College Pizza, which before locking its doors at 4 a.m. would sell more than 600 pizzas, close to its single - day record.
The English Defence League sprang up in Luton last year in reaction to a demonstration by a small extreme Islamist group during a homecoming parade by the Royal Anglian Regiment.
Two people have been arrested after anti-war protestors targeted a homecoming parade by British troops.
There's a little bit on the homecoming parade yesterday which was marred by protest and arrest.
Soldiers returning from Iraq - and marching through Luton as part of a homecoming parade - were greeted with banners branding them as «butchers, war criminals, murderers, terrorists — and baby killers» by Islamic extremists.
This post is also kind of making us miss all of the fall activities from our school days - football games, the Homecoming parade, the Homecoming dance, pep rallies, bonfires, Halloween parties, and all sorts of other extracurricular fun.
Here are a few pictures from our high school's participation in today's Homecoming Parade.
I drove the IROC in a homecoming parade, where I did burnouts and got away with it thanks to the strange diplomatic immunity of parades.
«We used to have just one high school, and we've always had a homecoming parade down Main Street,» explains Felker.
As new high schools have opened, people began asking whether there'd be a parade for each school, or would the city have to end its homecoming parade tradition?