ONE WEEK AWAY! West Seattle Grand Parade, Kiddie Parade, Float Dodger 5K next Saturday

(WSB photo: Girl Scout Troop 45180 in last year’s Grand Parade)

Just making sure that you know we are now one week away from the West Seattle Grand Parade – 11 am Saturday, July 23rd, it starts in The Admiral District, at California/Lander, and heads south on California to The Junction, where it ends at Edmunds about two hours later. In the week ahead, as is a WSB tradition, we’ll bring you a closer look at who and what you’ll see.

It’s not just a day for sitting and watching – before the big parade arrives, kids have the chance to participate in the Kiddie Parade, which travels a shorter route in the heart of The Junction:

The Kiddie Parade goes from California/Genesee to California/Edmunds starting around 10 am Saturday, with the Junior All-City Band scheduled to participate as well as the West Seattle Hi-Yu Junior Court. And all this follows the Float Dodger 5K run:

(Float Dodger 5K: WSB file photo)
West Seattle Runner (WSB sponsor) presents the Float Dodger 5K at 9:30 am on parade morning – this year, it will start and finish on the track at Hiawatha Playfield, which is right next to the start of the parade route at California/Lander. It’s a benefit for the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society and West Seattle Food Bank – costumes encouraged! – and you can register online right now. (Or register tomorrow or any time this week in person at West Seattle Runner, 2743 California SW.)

MsD July 17, 2016 (8:01 pm)

This is a really fun community event and it’s nice how many people come out to watch it each year. If you do come out, please take a moment to clean up behind yourself before you leave. It’s pretty staggering the amount of coffee and soda cups and other trash left behind on California Avenue each year.

sam-c July 18, 2016 (10:23 am)

speaking of cleaning up after yourself, please consider taking cigarette butts also. I was really bummed the last time we went (2 years ago), a woman came and plopped down on the sidewalk right next to our family, and friends (4 very small children in all), and she proceeded to smoke….. i think she smoked about about 4 cigarettes in the span of 45 minutes, leaving butts on the ground of course.

it was too late for us to try and find a spot somewhere else and it was disappointing for all of us (all the cigarette smoke blowing our faces throughout the parade).

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