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2009 4TH OF JULY PARADE LINEUP
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1968 DODGE CORONET - TED SARAF

1939 DODGE SEDAN "PEARL HARBOR STAFF CAR" VFW MEMBERS-WAYNE MOREIRA
 
WORLD WAR II JEEP - BERT CARLYLE
SIERRA MADRE CITY COLLEGE FLOAT
 
PARADE GRAND MARSHAL MIDGE MORASH
COUNTY SUPERVISOR MICHAEL ANTONOVICH
 
CALIFORNIA SENATOR BOB HUFF
 
CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLYMAN ANTHONY ADAMS
 
SIERRA MADRE OLDER AMERICAN OF THE YEAR KEN ANHALT
 
MAYOR MARYANN MACGILLIVRAY
 
MAYOR PRO TEM DON WATTS

COUNCILMEMBER JOHN BUCHANAN
 
COUNCILMEMBER JOE MOSCA
 
COUNCILMEMBER KURT ZIMMERMAN
 
ARC/\DIA COUNCILMAN ROBERT HARBICHT
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HORSELESS CARRIAGE CLUB OF SO. CALIFORNIA
 
GOOD OLD MODEL "A" CLUB
 
SIERRA MADRE ROSE PRINCESSES LAUREL CIPOLLA AND GAIL GUTIERREZ
 
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SIERRA MADRE COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL
 
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SIERRA MADRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COUNCIL
 
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1954 HUDSONS - BOB & SUSAN ROSS
 
YWCA - THE CALIFORNIA YOUTH SPIRIT CORPS
 
MAMA PETE'S NURSERY SCHOOL
 
WORLD WAR II ARMY JEEP - ROB LlHANI
 
US ARMY JEEP - BSA - LONE SCOUT - GARRETT COOMBS
 
CUB SCOUT PACK 31
 
SIERRA MADRE ENTERTAINMENT FLOAT
 
1965 ROLLS ROYCE - DR: THOMAS PICKREN
 
STOGIE MEN OF ARCADIA
 
1933 CHEVROLET - GLADHART FAMILY
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HASTINGS RANCH NURSERY SCHOOL
 
THE UNKNOWN BAND
 
BETHANY CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL AND SCHOOL
 
THE LITTLE GYM OF MONROVIA
 
CLASSIC CARS - BAXTER WILLIAMS
 
HORSES ON ASTROTURF
 
GIRL SCOUT TROOP 13251
 
THE GOODEN SCHOOL
 
TOPA TOPA FLYWHEELERS
 
PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA
 
ST. RITA PARISH
 
1930 MODEL A FORD/CALLIOPE - JACK CONWAY
 
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SIERRA MADRE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
 
KATRELYA ANGUS - BELLY DANCER
 
SIERRA MADRE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
 
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FOOTHILL COMMUNITY DEMOCRATS
 
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AWESOME A SHRINE CLUB�MINi-CARS
 
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RHOADS PEDDLE CAR
 
VINTAGE CYCLERY
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MISS ARMED FORCES 2009
 
LAUREL'S APPAREL SERVICE
 
ANTIQUE CARS - BENT
 
ALVERNO HIGH SCHOOL
 
GARY GOLTZ
 
GOLF CART AND WAGON - CHRISTOPHER KIMBRO
 
UNIQUE AND OBSOLETE HONDA CAR CLUB
 
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1970 CROWN FIRE ENGINE - BRIEL FAMILY AND FRIENDS
 
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Sierra Madre Chamber of Commerce
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Greetings!

Here's hoping we all have a safe and happy 4th of July weekend.  FYI - Chantry Flats Road will be closing at 6pm over the weekend, instead of 8pm
Notice: The area along the parade route in which water games may occur this year has been scaled back quite a bit and clearly defined.  Water games may only take place on Sierra Madre Blvd. east of Canon to the end of the parade.  Please do not squirt the antique cars.  Anyone engaging in water games west of Canon is subject to citation by SMPD.  Your cooperation is appreciated.  
4th of July Event Schedule
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Friday, July 3rd
SMRFA Food Booth at 4th of JulyFood booths open at 5pm. Non-profit organizations in town (such as the award-winning Sierra Madre Rose Float Association pictured at left) use the 4th of July festivities to raise funds, for some it's their biggest fundraiser of the year, please show your support.  Especially if you plan to spend time in the beer garden. 
 
 
  
 
The Sheds at 4th of July 2006Concert featuring "The Sheds" begins at 6pm, click here to watch a video of The Sheds from 2006 4th of July
and...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
...the concert continues with "Aluminum Marshmallow" 7pm to 10pm.  Click here to view video of Aluminum Marshmallow performing at the 2008 4th of July Festivities
 
   Aluminum Marshmallow at 4th of July, 2008
 
 
Bubble Wrap Fireworks, 2008
4th Annual "Bubble Wrap Fireworks" will take place at approximately 8pm.  Click here for video of the 2008 Bubble Wrap
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sierra Madre Beer Garden, 4th of July 2008The Beer Garden opens from 5 - 10pm, here's a shot of Chamber resident member Bob Matheson volunteering his time at the Beer Garden in 2008...Bring a few extra bucks this year to buy your collectible souvenir cup (it holds a couple ounces more than the regular cups, so it could pay for itself over the two days).  And yes, for those who didn't know, the Chamber accepts resident members, it's just $50/year to show your support. 
 
 
 
Saturday, July 4th
Woman's Club Open House, July 4, 2008Sierra Madre Woman's Club hosts a Pre-Parade Open House, at 550 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., starting at 8am  In this picture from 2008, Jan Reed, Duncan MacGillivray, then Mayor Pro Tem Maryann MacGillivray, Congressman David Dreier, and City Council Member John Buchanan share a laugh at the Open House.  All are invited.

 
 
 
COTY 2008, 4th of July4th of July Parade, 10am - Nearly 100 entries in this year's parade, led by Grand Marshal Midge Morash.  In these 2008 pictures, Chamber member (Santa Anita Park) and Chamber Citizen of the Year honoree Pete Siberell and...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Laurel's Apparel, July 4, 2008...Chamber member Laurel Wood (Laurel's Apparel) ride down the boulevard.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Games in the Park, 2007Outdoor Games at Memorial Park are held at about Noon, traditional games like wheelbarrow races, three legged race, sack race, water balloon toss - it's just good fun!!  And some of the most precious memories a kid could ever have...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
Nightblooming Jazzmen, 2008Dixieland Jazz by Nightblooming Jazzmen at Memorial Park, Noon to 4pm - Perennial favorites playing...perennial favorites!  Click here to watch a video of the Jazzmen at work (or is it play?)

 
Food Booths and Beer Garden will be open at Memorial Park, Noon to 4pm.  This year, the Beer Garden is co-sponsored by the Sierra Madre 4th of July Committee, Friends of the Sierra Madre Little League, and the Sierra Madre Chamber of Commerce 
All photos and videos copyright 2006 - 2008, Bill Coburn
The Declaration of Independence
 
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.     
 
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,     
 
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.     
 
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.          
 
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.          
 
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.          
 
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.          
 
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.          
 
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.          
 
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the
Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.          
 
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.          
 
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.          
 
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.          
 
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.          
 
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.          
 
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.          
 
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
 
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:          
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:          
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:          
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:          
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:          
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences          
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:          
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:           For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.          
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.   
       
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.    
      
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the  most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.          
 
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.          
 
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.      In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.     
 
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.     
 
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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