 Annual Teddy Bear Parade |
Bring a Bear and a Book!When: Sat, Sep 28, 2013 10AM-12PM |
New this year!
Participants and spectators are invited to bring a new or gently used children’s book (appropriate for ages 5 to 12), for schools in the area.
Over 900 bears were collected last year and donated for distribution to the Trauma Intervention Program (TIP). The event is held for the children of our community.
Teddy Bears Everwhere
The parade will feature floats from local merchants, service organizations, schools, neighborhood groups and individuals. As always, participants will be carrying teddy bears or will be dressed in bear costumes.
For over three decades, the Soroptimists have put on this annual Fall parade to celebrate the “child in all of us” and create a tradition that helped Gresham’s “quaint and special downtown area” to thrive. In addition to the parade, the Soroptimists organize fundraisers throughout the year to raise money for scholarships for deserving women and girls in our community.
The Soroptimist Teddy Bear Parade began in 1982 and has grown into a community tradition with more than a hundred festive entries, from marching bands and colorful floats to civic and cultural organizations along with the Wells Fargo wagon pulled by magnificent horses. The parade winds through the streets of historic Downtown Gresham. Each year, it continues to delight and entertain the many hundreds of people that come with their bears to watch it as it passes by on the street
Parade Route:
The parade route will snake throught historic Downtown Gresham as follows:
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See you at the parade!
