Hot Springs Schedules Annual Parade
Entries for First Ever Fourth Annual St. Patrick's Parade Now Being Accepted by Convention and Visit
HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, AR, January 3, 2007. Entries are now being accepted for floats, bands and other entries in the First Ever Fourth Annual World's Shortest St. Patrick's Day Parade, scheduled for March 17 on Bridge Street in downtown Hot Springs.
"We have already had applications for entries in the 2007 parade," said Steve Arrison, executive director of the Hot Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau, "including the Marching Irish Elvi troupe of Elvis impersonators." Arrison said additional entertainment surrounding the 2007 parade will be announced soon.
Entry forms for the fourth annual parade may be obtained from the Hot Springs website at www.hotsprings.org, from Leysa Robertson at the Hot Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau, 134 Convention Boulevard, or by writing to her at Post Office Box 6000, Hot Springs, 71902.
Planning already is under way to expand the fourth edition of the annual event, which has attracted worldwide notice for Hot Springs since its inception in 2004.
Television star Mario Lopez, who was runner-up to Emmitt Smith in the hit series "Dancing With the Stars," will be the celebrity grand marshal for the 2007 parade.
"Mario will add an additional element of excitement to what has become one of the greatest annual events in the downtown area," Arrison said. "Our little parade has grown every year and has reached the point that it brings attention to Hot Springs from all over America and in Canada and Europe. Mario is certain to help us attract even more attention for the city as a place where families can come for a great time."
Arrison said a writer for the in-flight magazine of Aer Lingus, the Irish airline, plans to feature Hot Springs' parade in an article he is preparing for the publication.
The 2006 parade and accompanying Pub Crawl attracted more than 10,000 people into the downtown area to watch marchers, floats, bands and other entertainment units cover the 98-foot parade route on world-famous Bridge Street, the world's shortest street in everyday use.
"This should be the best parade thus far," Arrison said, because it's the first time since we began it that St. Patrick's Day will fall on a Saturday. That will give families from across our region time to travel to Hot Springs, perhaps enjoy some racing at Oaklawn or the other Hot Springs attractions, then spend Saturday evening enjoying a parade that has grown to international fame."
For more entry forms and other information contact Leysa Robertson at [email protected] or 501-321-2027.
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