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for Dec. 1
PUTNAM —The Holiday Dazzle Light Parade committee named Day Kimball Healthcare as this year’s parade Grand Marshal.
Parade chairman Gary Osbrey said, “The committee is proud to honor Day Kimball Healthcare as they celebrate 125 years of caring for our community”.
The 18th annual parade is set to roll at 5 p.m. Dec. 1 in downtown Putnam. This year, the Grove Street Staging Area will be reconfigured with parade floats lining one side of Grove Street instead of both sides. The change has been made to reduce congestion problems on Grove Street before the parade begins. Floats will line up on one side of Grove Street from the Grove Street Monument to Killingly Avenue, and will continue down Killingly Avenue.
The parade will step off at 5 p.m. Dec. 1 at the Grove Street monument and will follow Grove Street merging right onto South Main Street, left on Front Street (through the center of downtown Putnam), right onto Kennedy Drive (at Cargill Falls) and will travel past Rotary Park and Riverfront Commons on Kennedy Drive taking a right onto Providence Street and will end at the Owen Tarr Sports Complex at the corner of Providence and School streets.
Once again this year, the parade committee will present a “litter free parade”. Before the parade begins, an army of volunteers from High Pointe Church in Thompson will hand out trash bags donated by The Last Green Valley. At the conclusion of the parade, volunteers will walk the parade route picking up trash bags from the crowd and depositing the bags into a town of Putnam Public Works truck.
The rain date is Dec. 8. Entry forms are available at WINY Radio, the Putnam Town Hall and online at www.winyradio.com.
For info, call parade organizer and chairman, Gary Osbrey at 860-928-1350 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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