June 7 – Meacham Park Homecoming and Parade

June 7 – Meacham Park Homecoming and Parade

I think the idea of a a precision lawn chair brigade is just too good to pass up. I invite you to join me at the three rehearsal sessions listed below, or to join the parade that Saturday, or simply to show up and see the thing.

It would be good for folks like us to go hang out with neighbors to our south in Meacham Park.

This event is coordinated by the Community for Understanding and Healing. You can read more about them here.

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Mark your calendar, put on your walking shoes, and join CFUH as part of the Meacham Park parade and homecoming Saturday, June 7 – parade at 11:00 AM – food, fun, and games for the kids afterward in the Park. The parade route begins at Turner School, circles the Meacham Park area (a distance of about one mile), ending at the park grounds at the corner of New York and Orleans.

We also want as many of the drill team members as possible to attend a first rehearsal and planning session on May 21 at 6:30. (It takes bodies to make sure the plans are reasonable.) All rehearsals will be on the Kirkwood High School Essex parking lot.

The CFUH parade contingent – a precision lawn chair brigade, followed by, hopefully, many marchers – will assemble at 10 AM at Turner School. We are looking for a couple dozen good strong women and men for our precision lawn chair brigade.

People who are in the brigade will need to meet several requirements:

• the ability to carry an aluminum lawn chair the distance of the parade (BringYourOwnChair).
• the ability to learn a drill routine which may require lifting, sitting, getting up, reversing direction, etc.
• availability to attend two Wednesday evening rehearsals - May 28 and June 4 at 6:30 PM.

We are ordering CFUH t-shirts, blue with white lettering – (see a mockup at http://cfuh.org/mpParade.html)

Front: "Community for Understanding and Healing" with our logo

Back: "on a quest to transform Kirkwood into a prejudice-free, highly respectful community"

We hope many of you will order one of these shirts for $8 (XXL $9), but this is not a requirement for marching in the parade – you can wear a white or blue shirt of your own.

Send an e-mail to register@cfuh.org and let us know:

• if you plan participate in the parade, and if you want to be in the lawn chair drill team or march behind them. We want to identify our lawn chair brigade members by May 20.
• if you would like to order a t-shirt. Include the size: S, M, L, XL, or XXL. Payment can be made at the time of delivery which will be at the drill team rehearsals or on the day of the parade.