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Uncle Sam wants YOU in the Independence Day Parade!

This year’s Independence Day Parade at the Fun Fourth Festival will start at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, July 3.

The Parade heralds a morning full of free fun as it winds through downtown Greensboro, beginning at Greene and Lindsay Streets, traveling south on Greene, east on Market, north on Church and ending at the Greensboro Children’s Museum.

Uncle Sam and the Guilford Courthouse Fife & Drum Corps will lead floats, clowns, beauty queens, community organizations, dance troupes, military personnel and more.

We want YOU (the community) in the Independence Day Parade!

Interested organizations, bands and individuals are encouraged to participate. Have a church tambourine band? Lawn mower drill teams? Bucket drumming marching sqaud? Girl Scout, Boy Scout, church youth groups and neighborhood organizations are all encouraged to march in the parade and show their patriotic spirit.

Prizes awarded for Most Patriotic and Best in Parade.

Everyone is welcome to march in the parade. There is no charge to participate but you need to submit an approved Parade Application available for download here.

Admission and parking free; no pets or coolers, please.

For pictures from the 2009 Independence Day Parade check out our flickr site.

For full information on the Parade and festival, visit www.funfourthfestival.org

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Sponsor Spotlight: GMA

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Your membership dollars are then put to work for the health and prosperity of the community supporting many programs including National Peace Officers Week, Women's ACC, Arts in Business Award and the Festival of Lights!!

For more than a decade the Greensboro Merchant's Association has been a proud sponsor of the Fun Fourth Festival Independence Day Parade! Because of their sponsorship, community groups of all kinds -- cheer teams, veterans groups, service clubs, girl and boy scout troops are all able to participate in the parade without paying any entrance fee!

The Independence Day Parade starts at the corner of Lindsay and Greene @ 9:30am on July 4th -- it will travel south on Greene, East on Market and North on Church disbanding near the Greensboro Children's Museum.

If you are interested in participating in the 2009 Fun Fourth Independence Day Parade download the application and send it in!! Perhaps you will win the award for most patriotic entry!

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