Swamp Fox Festival Parade 2009

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Hey everyone -- it's time to think about signing yourself and your MINI up for EIM's annual entry into this year's Swamp Fox Festival Parade. It will be held in Marion, IA on Saturday, Sept. 12th. We had great representation at last year's parade and we're looking forward to an even greater MINI presence this year!

****Please send an email to our parade coordinator Larry at huskerfanlarry@msn.com not later than August 12th and let him know of your plans to join our MINI caravan in the parade. All area MINIs are warmly welcome to join us. The more, the merrier. Please spread the word!****

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This year, our entry in the parade will include escorting our very own "Miss Eastern Iowa MINIs 2009" in Steve and Bobbi's Cool Blue MCS Cabrio. (In fitting with the Swamp Fox theme she's a Marion native, granddaughter of one of our members, and eager to represent us!) We also have a couple of other things in the works that have the potential to make this year's entry in the parade a most memorable event.

Schedule details are forthcoming, but at last year's parade our MINIs congregated between 8:00 and 8:30 am at the car wash located at the intersection of South 11th St and Grand Ave to do some pre-parade sprucing, decorating, and socializing. It's probably a good idea to plan on meeting at the same place and time since it worked so well. As I recall, we needed to be all staged and ready by 9:30 am. Larry will likely be circulating a more detailed parade itinerary closer to the date of the event.

Also, many of us stayed around after the parade to check out all of the food and beverage tents, local bands, and the vendor booths at the downtown Marion square. The dessert line had more kinds of pie than I'd ever seen in one place before. You should plan on checking it out!

Here's some pics from last year's parade to get you in the mood: http://www.easterniowaminis.org/?page_id=56

See you there!