Celebrating its 130th birthday, Saluda has organized its first Christmas parade for Saturday, Dec. 10 at 2 p.m. The parade will be the final event in the year-long celebration of the town’s birthday.
There will be floats, fire trucks, a grand marshal and dogs – but no marching bands. Saluda School is an elementary school and does not have a band program so the parade organizers asked five area high schools and one middle school in Henderson and Polk counties to send a band to march in the first Saluda Christmas parade. They were turned down by every school.
“What is a Christmas parade without a marching band?” organizers asked.
They have put out a general call for a band to parade in the parade. The band would march a short distance of three blocks down Main Street in historic downtown Saluda. It doesn’t even need to be a full band, organizers said.
Please contact Terry Baisden at 828-749-3789 if you would like to be part of making history by marching in Saluda’s first Christmas parade in 130 years.
– article submitted
by Cathy Jackson