CWO Columbus Days Parade Float (Sunday, August 21st)

The Columbus Days celebration for 2016 is this coming weekend, August 19th-21st.  As in the past, we would like to show our pride of the Columbus Wrestling Organization (CWO) to the community of Columbus.  One way we do that is to put an entry in the annual Columbus Days parade.  Based on the great participation and great exposure we have gotten over the past several years, we are putting an entry into this year’s parade.  We are proud of our CWO youth wrestlers and their families and would like to get out in the public’s eyes and show it during the parade.  The parade will be held on Sunday, August 21st starting at 3:00 p.m.  We would like to have wrestlers of all ages, our coaches and our volunteers walk and/or ride with us during the parade.  We plan on pulling a hayrack/trailer with a pickup during the parade.  There should be room on the hayrack/trailer for most if not all of the wrestlers.

We are hoping to have a majority of the wrestlers, coaches and volunteer help in the parade with us this year.  If you plan on coming or plan on having your child participate, please have them wear their Columbus Wrestling Organization t-shirts during the parade.  We will plan on having bottled water on the trailer for the kids just in case we have an extremely hot day.  If any parents would like to walk along and help pass out candy to the parade watchers, please let me know.  For our younger kids this year we will have a small bag of candy for them to take home as they miss out on that part of the parade.  Riding in a parade is a lot of fun and rewarding in itself but I know kids like candy (even us big kids)!

As far as logistics, the parade entries will be lining up in the NPPD parking lot at 1414 15th St.  We would like to have everyone there by 2:45 p.m. (3 p.m. at the latest as the parade starts then and street are hard to navigate with all the parade traffic).  We will not know our parade number until later in the week but we are typically put in the last half of the parade.  Just look for the maroon CWO t-shirts in the parking lot, we are usually easy to spot.  I will email additional information as soon as I receive it from the Chamber.  If you are unable to find us, please call my cell phone (402-910-8749)and I can tell you where we are set up.

The parade route will begin out of the NPPD parking lot heading south on 15th Ave, turn west on 14th St, turn south on 23rd Ave, turn west on 13th St and proceed to the end at 29th Ave.  We will plan on continuing back to the NPPD parking lot where parents can pick up their kids in the southwest corner.  This should be an easy place for everyone to meet and get kids picked up.  If you plan on picking up your child along the parade route, please make sure you communicate that to the coaches when you drop them off, otherwise we will assume that all kids will be picked up in the NPPD parking lot.

This year the parade theme is the Olympics which works great for our youth wrestling club knowing how well the United States is being represented by our Olympic wrestlers, especially those with ties to Nebraska including Jordan Burroughs and Tervel Dlagnev.  If anyone is interested in helping decorate the hayrack/trailer, we would love your help.  We plan to decorate on Friday night or early Saturday afternoon.  I will get details out to those willing to help.  Just let me know via email or text.

Let’s do our best to show our pride in the Columbus Wrestling Organization and have a large crowd for the parade.  If you have any questions, feel free to contact me on my cell at 402-910-8749. Please note that I will have my cell phone with me before, during & after the parade in case of an emergency.

Thanks,

Coach Brian Brownlow
Phone: 402-910-8749 (cell)
Email: columbuswrestlingorg@gmail.com