Editor,
Thank you Eureka Springs! Thank you for helping us honor our veterans again this year for our 8th annual Parade and Events Weekend! Of course, our veterans are the ones we want to thank the most, but we have so many more to be grateful for.
All of the veterans at American Legion Post 9 deserve special thanks for doing so much to make our parade possible.
We thank Mr. John Cross for letting us use his parking lot for our ceremony and the students from Eureka Springs grade and middle school, the choir, Rachel Hyatt and the other sponsors for participating in the parade and ceremony. And big thanks to alderman Bob Thomas who donated and passed out over 750 American flags.
Our Meet and Greet was made possible by Angela and Jeff at the Pied Piper, the local restaurateurs who provided us food and Mickey Schneider who coordinated it.
We also thank the Grub and Pub for sponsoring the Marine/Veterans Party, the Poker run and Silent Auction.
Thanks to Eureka Live, First National Bank, and Fresh for their donations.
Special thanks to the four people who helped me with the parade, and kept me on track. Mike Warkentin, Crystal Roberts, Laura Sanchez and Cecilia Cleghorn.
Thanks to all the people who donated items to the Silent Auction, those who walked, drove, rode a bike or a horse, had a float, or loan us a trailer for use in the parade! Thanks to all of you came out and watch us.
Next year our parade is on Saturday and we are planning on it being bigger and better! Remember, life’s to short to miss a parade!
Sue Glave