17th Annual Bakersville Christmas Parade
Bakersville
will celebrate its 17th annual Christmas Parade on Saturday
night December 5th at 6:00 PM. The night time parade is
one of the best small town parades in Western North Carolina.
Generally, the parade has 70+ entries with participation from
churches, civic groups, and clubs. The parade begins at Gouge
Elementary School and travels down North Mitchell Avenue to the
red light and turns left onto Crimson Laurel Way and concludes
at Bowman Middle School. The parade usually has an audience of
several thousand. The citizens and merchants of Bakersville will
be decorating to the theme "Tinsel Town" and using Christmas
movie themes as decorating ideas. The Bakersville Improvement
Group encourages everyone to attend and/or participate. For
information call Lee Roy or Sue Ledford at 688-3456. There is no
entry fee.