{"id":10712,"date":"2023-12-06T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T22:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/?p=10712"},"modified":"2023-12-06T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T22:23:08","slug":"christmas-parade-saturday-december-9-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/news\/christmas-parade-saturday-december-9-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Parade Saturday December 9 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8319 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Christmas-in-Elkton-Logo-2021-sm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Christmas-in-Elkton-Logo-2021-sm.png 173w, https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Christmas-in-Elkton-Logo-2021-sm-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Christmas in Elkton will be celebrated this year on Saturday, December 9, 2023. Many local businesses will have open house, special sales, refreshments, and other activities throughout the day followed by a nighttime Christmas Parade starting at 5:00 PM.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The Parade will leave Todd County Central High School on South Main Street at 5 :00 PM and then head north towards Public Square. Parade route will exit the Square on West Main Street and ending at the Milliken Memorial Community House. The parade features lighted floats and entries from local businesses, schools and churches. Please note traffic will be blocked to Public Square starting around 4:00 PM until all festivities are over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">We are delighted to announce that the Grand Marshals of this year&#8217;s parade will be some distinguished Elkton residents who received the 2023 Gold Standard of Optimal Aging Award from the University of Louisville Trager Institute\/Republic Band Foundation Optimal Aging Clinic:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u2022 Mrs. Barbara Jordan<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u2022 Mr. Frank McReynolds, City Councilman<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u2022 Mrs. Janette Sharp<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">\u2022 Mr. Jacob &#8216;Jack&#8217; Weber, Jr<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000;\">Following the parade, Santa Claus himself will make a special appearance at the Welcome Center located in the heart of Elkton\u2019s Public Square. Children and families are invited to visit Santa and receive a free digital picture with him, as well as a delightful goodie bag, generously sponsored by BR Knuckles Insurance.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Christmas in Elkton will be celebrated this year on Saturday, December&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/news\/christmas-parade-saturday-december-9-2023\/\">Leer m\u00e1s &quot;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Christmas-in-Elkton-Logo-2021-sm.png","blog_images":{"medium":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Christmas-in-Elkton-Logo-2021-sm.png","large":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Christmas-in-Elkton-Logo-2021-sm.png"},"ams_acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elktonky.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}