The biggest change and most popular to Seafest is the return of the street parade, scheduled for Saturday July 20 beginning at 6:30.
Seafest chairman David Outhouse says a revised route has been approved.
“It will be going from Albert Street to Shaw Avenue. We got some confirmed floats and are waiting to hear back on more applications.”
He says security along the parade route will be tightened in light of the tragedy at last year’s Christmas parade when a young girl died after being accidentally run over by a float.
“The street will be closed off for the entire route. If a float is to be in motion at any time, nobody is to be on or off. Each float is to have a person on each side making sure no one is near it.”
There will not be a Seafest pageant this year due to a lack of interest and no Parade of Lights because of a lack of volunteers.
Here is a link to the Seafest web page: http://www.seafest.ca/