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We're just trying on some costumes for this year's End of Summer Gala. It is never to early to start putting together your ideas for this years parade!
The End of Summer Parade for 2009 will be held on
Saturday September 5th at 2:00pm
come rain or shine.
The theme for this year's parade is:
"Summer of 09 was Mighty Fine"
"Celebrate Summer of 08"
"The burial of "old man summer"
Saturday August 30, 2008
Another long anticipated summer has now come and gone. Though it brought us more than our share of rain our community made the best of those days that the sun did shine. And with that we celebrated the Summer of 08s time with us.
We had mermaids and dalmations in the parade this year.
How about the winning float of 2008, the main characters from the Wizard of Oz showed up bringing their own rainbow along for the ride! The bar has been raised for 2009. They will be a tough group to beat next year.
The Oakwood Ave."Day Care Center" was this years Silver Medal winner.
The Schooley Rd. Crew brought a bit of Paradise to our parade this year.
The Capt. readies the Crystal Beach Public School "crew" to set sail.
Glad to have one of our new businesses join us in this years parade.
 
Who would have expected the gang from "Pee Wee's Playhouse" to show up? Never put it past "Hoppy" to figure a way to be in the parade and still windsurf in the neighborhood.
"Hoppy" wasn't the only one with a bike in the parade this year.
We had bikes, automobiles, trucks, floats and boats in this years parade.
Thanks go out to the following businesses and individuals for helping to make this years parade possible.
Fort Erie Bingo
Paul Van Hezwyek
The CBIA
The Palmwood Restaurant
Bertie Printers
Mabel's Pizza
Shake "N" Dogs
Phil Smith
Crystal Beach and Ridgeway Fire Stations
Niagara Regional Police Services
Benny Lyrett
The Crystal Chandelier Restaurant
The Town of Fort Erie
Sylvia Reynolds
105.1 "The River"
Tim Smith
AND SO IT HAS COME AND GONE AND WE SHALL REMEMBER IT FONDLY . . . . . . .
"A Taste of Heaven was Summer of 07"
Saturday September 1, 2007
THE MOUNTED POLICE LEAD THE WAY
THE CRYSTAL CHANDELIER FLOAT TOOK TOP HONORS THIS YEAR. WAY TO GO GIRLS(AND SIMON)FOR A JOB WELL DONE.
THE ANIMAL HOUSE FLOAT WITH A GROUP OF TOGA PARTIERS RELIVING THE 1960'S
We aren't sure if Willy had to wear one of those ankle bracelet monitors while out on a day pass but we were glad he was with us.
Ms. South Buffalo made an appearance this year.
MOURNERS PASS BY THE COFFIN LEAVING FLOWERS IN HONOR OF THE PASSING OF A BEAUTIFUL SUMMER OF 2007
A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO HELPED US MAKE THE DAY A ROUSING SUCCESS BY STEPPING FORWARD TO BE ONE OF OUR SPONSORS
* Atrium Spa at the Holiday Inn * CED Restaurant * * Lino's Pizza Parlour * Palmwood Restaurant * Papa's Pizza * *Ridgeway Furniture * Summer Delight * * Tim Hortons * * True Value Hardware * Wowie Zowies *
A very special thank you to Benny L. for his donation of wood from the "Yellow Rollercoaster" for our trophies.
"Your Last Fix of Summer 06"
This was the renewal of a cherished tradition for the ending of summer at the beach. A community parade accompanying a casket wound its way through the village of Crystal Beach carrying the symbolic remains of the Summer of 2006. The event ended with a party for all the revelers.
John McCarthy either announcing his farewell to baseball, singing Frank Sinatra's old favorite "My Way" or inviting everyone to get involved in the "Last Fix of 06".
Saturday September 2nd - What a great day for the Crystal Beach community and the "Friends of Crystal Beach" itself. Many thanks to John McCarthy and his committee for all the time, effort and hard work they put in bringing back to life(no pun intended) an age old tradition at Crystal Beach. We also can't say enough about all those that braved the cold and rainy weather to be in the parade or came out and cheered on those that were a part of it. Thanks to all the businesses that either had a float, offered a prize or donated money to help us defray the costs of the parade and party that followed. Hats off to Crystal Beach Elementary School for providing the refreshment tent after the parade. Special thanks to the Town Staff, Fire Departments and Police for making things so easy regarding the interworkings of setting something of this nature up. What a great communal effort by all and it shows what we can do when we work together to make a difference here at the beach.
The casket arrives to begin the parade in honor of the Summer of 06.
Special thanks go to all of the businesses and individuals who donated to help make our event a huge success. It was truly a community effort!!!!
Fort Erie Ontario Bingo Town of Fort Erie Staff
Regional Municipality of Niagara Police and the Mounted Police Division
Crystal Beach and Ridgeway Fire Departments Canterbury Horse and Carriage
Turkstra Lumber Palmwood Restaurant Phil Smith - Prudential Real Estate
Dagwood's Lakeview Restaurant JB Sound Lino's Pizza
Antonio's Italian Restaurant Mia's Trading Post Coconut Joe's
Summer Delight True Value Hardware Beachnuts Tanning Salon
Coffee Express Diner Smith Davidson Litho MapleRock Soap Company
CBIA Crystal Chandelier Benny Lyrette
This is a photo of the "1969 Burial of Summer". By the dress of the cottagers you can see it was a very solemn event.
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