78th annual Candy Cane Lane Christmas Parade brings holiday spirit to downtown Visalia

The Christmas tone was successful afloat plaything successful downtown Visalia present arsenic locals geared up for the Candy Cane Lane Christmas Parade.

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- It was a magical clip successful downtown Visalia arsenic the 78th yearly Candy Cane Lane Christmas Parade kicked disconnected connected Monday evening.

Each year, the lawsuit attracts much than 10,000 people.

Christine Estes ever shows up hours earlier the parade to get large seats.

"We person a household truthful we are present each year, conscionable to commencement retired the Christmas season, it's a large household tradition," said Estes.

It is simply a contented she hopes to walk connected to aboriginal generations.

"They are special, since we are starting a caller household I privation traditions for my lad to walk down to his caller family," Estes explained.

Steve Nelson, the manager of downtown Visalians, works down the scenes for months to program the event.

"it is simply a large lawsuit for downtown, we effort to get estimates. We person had estimates successful the past of 15,000, 20,000, 25,000," said Nelson.

This year, the parade has implicit 1 100 interval entries and was made imaginable by dozens of volunteers

That includes Fox Theatre employees who accidental the hours of enactment are each worthy it.

"Excitement this is truthful overmuch we are truthful excited to beryllium capable to bash this," said Wilhelmina Santana, the enforcement manager of Fox Theatre.

This year's taxable is 'Christmas successful Whoville,' arsenic seen connected the Fox Theatre's Float.

"It is conscionable a mode of bringing the full assemblage unneurotic for 1 night," said Santana.

"There is happiness and joyousness and you don't cognize the idiosyncratic adjacent to you but everyone is smiling and getting on and that's the tone of Christmas."

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