Annual Holiday Parade is Sunday, Nov. 29

posted on: 11/25/2015

Holiday paradeDover Children’s Center will produce the 2015 Holiday Parade “Christmas Through the Eyes of a Child.”

The parade, underwritten by Liberty Mutual, will begin at 2:45 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 29. The parade route will begin at Dunkin Donuts on Central Avenue and continue to the Pine Hill Cemetery.

The parade this year will include floats, bands, color guard, the Dover Mounted Patrol, hot rods and Santa Claus.

This year’s parade Grand Marshals are Jenny Sheehan and Steve Pruyne, program managers in Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of New Hampshire’s Dover office.

Annual Holiday Parade is Sunday, Nov. 29

posted on: 11/25/2015

Holiday paradeDover Children’s Center will produce the 2015 Holiday Parade “Christmas Through the Eyes of a Child.”

The parade, underwritten by Liberty Mutual, will begin at 2:45 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 29. The parade route will begin at Dunkin Donuts on Central Avenue and continue to the Pine Hill Cemetery.

The parade this year will include floats, bands, color guard, the Dover Mounted Patrol, hot rods and Santa Claus.

This year’s parade Grand Marshals are Jenny Sheehan and Steve Pruyne, program managers in Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of New Hampshire’s Dover office.

CASA is a statewide nonprofit organization that recruits, trains and supports hundreds of volunteer guardians ad litem to serve as a voice for the state’s abused and neglected children who’ve come to the attention of the courts through no fault of their own. Sheehan and Pruyne are two of 10 program managers in CASA’s six offices around the state, who are responsible for supervising their teams of volunteer advocates who work directly with the children involved in these cases. Sheehan, who has worked for CASA for 14 years, and Pruyne, nine years, have worked with dozens of volunteers during their careers helping to train and guide them through this important work. CASA volunteer advocates represent the best interests of an abused or neglected child during court proceedings.

As the parade makes its way through the city, the following streets will close to through traffic between 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.: Sixth Street (Between Central Avenue and Horne Street), Maple Street (between Sixth and Hough streets), Mount Vernon Street (between Sixth and Hough), and Grove Street (between Sixth and Hough as well as between Sixth and Lincoln streets).

Only residents and parade participants are allowed from the Hough Street entrance to their respective streets. Participants should make arrangements to drop off pedestrians outside of the aforementioned restricted areas.

There is no rain date for the parade.