CITY OF ATLANTIC CITY

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PRESS RELEASE

 

For immediate release

Contact:           Sheila Harvey, Special Events Coordinator 609.343.6326

Kim Butler, Gen. Manager and Marketing Director, the Walk Outlets 609.872.7002 ext. 14

 

November 26, 2008

ATLANTIC CITY --  The Annual Atlantic City Christmas Parade, leading, this year, to The Atlantic City Outlets at The Walk, where  festivities loaded with excitement, entertainment and  lots of give-a-ways for children will follow, is set for Saturday, November 29, 2008.

The parade will begin at noon from New Hampshire Avenue and proceed along Atlantic Avenue from the Northeast Inlet to the Midtown district.  The parade will then turn right onto Michigan Avenue and proceed through the Atlantic City Outlets, The Walk with the first participants arriving there around 12:30 pm. The parade will end at Michigan and Baltic avenues 

Santa, Mayor Langford, Miss Atlantic City Roshni Shah and other city, county  and Walk Officials will host the Tree Lighting at the Michigan Avenue plaza in front of KB Toy Outlet immediately following the parade around 2:45 pm. The tree lighting will be followed by a free concert with CHOO CHOO SOUL from Walt Disney’s Playhouse. A toy give-away is being sponsored by Siganos Management Inc. and the Kay Bee Toy Store. Candy bags will be given out to all the children compliments of The Walk (Kim Butler, General Manager).

Valet parking will be suspended on Michigan Avenue between Noon and 2 pm and will resume once the parade is dispersed.   Parking is available at the Caesars garage at Christopher Columbus Blvd. and Atlantic Avenue, Park Place Parking at Ohio and Atlantic avenues and the Atlantic City Convention Center surface lot at Baltic and Ohio avenues.

 

Parade Line Up:

 

1.     Police Escort

2.     Color Guard

3.     Grand Marshall William McCullough of (McCullough Models Inc.)

4.     Atlantic City (TRC)

5.     Atlantic City High School Marching Band (Dir.Daril Robinson,)

6.     Mayor Lorenzo T. Langford and First Lady Nynell Langford

 7.  Miss Atlantic City Roshni Shah 2009

      8. The Walk” Featuring Choo Choo Soul Walt Disney’s Playhouse   

9.     AFL ( Philadelphia Soul Dancers) Dir. Lou Jacobs, 200 participants

10. Councilmen Marty Small, 2^nd Ward

11.  Stilt Walker(Elizabeth Grace)

12.  SO JO FM (Millennium Radio)

13. Ms New Jersey Senior America (Float), Johanne Santori, State Pageant Director

14.  9.73 Fm

15. Sami Khabir Cartoon Characters

16.  Gainer Florist

17.  West Powelton Drill Team Philadelphia, Pa ( Dir. Elsie Wise)

18.  Duck Town Tavern

19.  Atlantic City Art Center, Float (Youth Program) Artist Tyrone Hart

20.  Alisa Cooper Freeholder

21.  Neptune Drum Bugle Corp. (Dir.James Burroughs)

22.  Atlantic City Stanley Holmes Work Team Float (Mrs. Virgie Jordan,      Exec. Dir.)

23.  Councilman At-Large Eugene Robinson

24.  Oakrest High School Marching Band (Dir.David Tobias)

25. Terry Evans, Horse &Buggy

26.  Elvis Pressley’s Float (Ted Prior impersonator)

27.  A.C. Dolphins Cheerleader Squad (Dir. Sherri Hicks)  

28.  Pee Wee

29.  Jr. Varsity

30. Varsity

31. Rotary Club

32. Miss NJ Teen USA (Alexa Burnetti)

33. Atlantic City Free Public Library( Float)

34. United Youth of New Jersey

35. Girls Scouts, Float

36. Greater Over Brook (String Band) Cherry Hill, New Jersey

37. Joe Mcdevitt Freeholder

38.  Atlantic City Aquarium (Float)

39.  Miss Adele Ann Taylor, Heartland’s Outstanding Teen 2009

40. Winslow Nubian Elegant Steppers

41.  A.C. Souline Dancers (Float)

42. Malcolm X Shabazz High School Marching Band, Newark New Jersey

43. Miss New Jersey American Co-Ed Cover Girl Ayeaha Preston 

44. Clydesdale Horses 8 (Hitch)

45. WG XM Gospel Station Egg harbor City (Exec. Dir Allan Thomas

46. Boy Scout Float

47. Flamingo Drill Team, East Orange, New Jersey (Dir.Dena Madden)

48. Eddie Morgan (RE’K)4 Jazz (Float)

49. School House Steppers( Dir. James Gould)

50. Miss Liberty

51. City of Atlantic City,  Santa’s Float

 

Cars in the parade are being provided by Kerbeck Cadillac.

 

For more information contact Sheila Harvey 609.343.6326 or Kim Butler at 609.872.7002 ext. 14.

 

 

 

Gary Baker

Public Information Officer

City of Atlantic City

City Hall - Room 701

1301 Bacharach Blvd.

Atlantic City, NJ 08401

609-347-6124

gbaker@cityofatlanticcity.org