FOURTH OF JULY PARADE PLANNING TO PROCEED

Parade organizers want the city’s first public event to be the Fourth of July Parade. Since last year’s moratorium to not allow gatherings of 75 people or more on city property due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been no public festivals in Fredericksburg. Their wishes may come true this year.

“Wouldn’t it be great if the city’s first big event was on our country’s Independence Day?” said Daryl Whitworth, parade organizer. “We’re doing everything we can to make it happen. The parade program is pending statewide and local approval.”

Once approved, the Fourth of July celebration will fall on a Sunday this year. Whenever the fourth falls on a Sunday, the parade start time is moved from the morning to 1 p.m.

“So that everyone can attend the worship service of their choice and still enjoy the parade,” said Whitworth.

Last year’s parade and festivities were canceled due to the moratorium and an all-volunteer group of locals hosted a community parade in its place. The city’s fireworks display was held in 2020 and will be held again in 2021.

Parade entries are being accepted beginning June 1 and will be accepted until the day of the parade.

Clapping, waving and snapping pictures, parade watchers on Sunday afternoon at the annual July 4, 2010 procession joined in honoring the country’s servicemen and women. Grand marshals for the parade were Vietnam

veterans. — Standard-Radio Post file photo

Whether it was Fredericksburg Mayor Tom Musselman and his wife, “First Frau” Kelly Musselman or the Fredericksburg Pie Company, entries in the annual July 4th Parade celebrated the nation’s

birthday on Sunday in 2010. — Standard-Radio Post file photo

FOURTH OF JULY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

• 8 a.m. — CHILDREN’S PARADE AT MARKTPLATZ.

Children are welcome to come, dress up and be patriotic.

There are 10 categories in which to compete, but all children will come home with a prize.

• 1 p.m. — AIRCRAFT FLYOVER will signal start of

Fredericksburg Community Fourth of July Parade.

• 1 p.m. — FREDERICKSBURG COMMUNITY FOURTH OF

JULY PARADE on Main Street. Parade viewing covers

Main Street from the National Museum of the Pacific War to Big’s on West Main Street.

• 10 a.m.-3 p.m. — JULY 4TH at the Sauer-Beckmann

Living History Farm.

• 2 p.m. — PATRIOTIC PROGRAM at Marktplatz (following the parade). Fredericksburg High School NJROTC recites excerpts from the Declaration of Independence and Pledge of Allegiance, performances and patriotic speeches from local dignitaries.

• Evening — A SPECIAL PATRIOTIC PROGRAM is being planned at the Gillespie County Airport. More information will be included in the Fredericksburg

Standard-Radio Post as the time nears.

• Dark-thirty — City of Fredericksburg fireworks display at Lady Bird Johnson Municipal Park.

Dressed especially for the parade, a local resident and her mother, wave from one of the National Museum of the

Pacific War entries in 2010. — Standard-Radio Post file photo