Annual Santa Claus Parade to roll through downtown Summerside Dec. 1
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SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — Santa Claus will quickly be coming to city.
Dec. 1, residents are invited to line the streets of downtown Summerside for the jolly outdated elf’s annual parade.
It is going to be the second 12 months in a row that the occasion has returned to its conventional format after being disrupted by the pandemic.
“It was nice, it’s simply an terrible lot much less work,” mentioned Ron Enman, chief of the Summerside Fireplace Division which places on the occasion. “There’s lots of work to the parade, however it’s loads simpler when it’s a conventional parade, versus the reverse.”
Days away from the float registration deadline, Enman mentioned that not less than 50 floats had signed up.
“We’ll take as many as we will get,” mentioned Enman. “We obtained some attention-grabbing ones, so I believe it’ll be lots of enjoyable for the youngsters.”
The parade begins at Credit score Union Place, goes down Water Road, activates Granville Road and concludes on the nook of Notre Dame and Spring streets.
Forward of the occasion, the division additionally had a marketing campaign to lift funds for the Salvation Military, Lions Membership and the Kinsmen.
No sweet might be handed out in the course of the parade; any parade participant who needs to offer out treats is requested to take action on the Yuletide Village.
The town added the village, held at Memorial Sq. beginning at 7:30 p.m., to the itinerary in 2022.
“(It) was wonderful, and I believe that it’s going to be even greater and higher this 12 months,” mentioned Enman. “So, it’s a pleasant method for the households to complete off the occasion.”
The Yuletide Village is an opportunity for parade-goers to mingle, heat themselves with scorching chocolate and chat with Santa at his workshop. It is going to proceed every Saturday till Dec. 16.
The parade begins at 6 p.m. – runs round two hours – with highway closures starting at 5:30 p.m.
Kristin Gardiner is a reporter with SaltWire in Prince Edward Island. She could be reached by electronic mail at [email protected] and adopted on X @KristinGardiner.
