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SANGER, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The City of Sanger is making immoderate last-minute changes to this year’s Veterans Day traditions. While the yearly parade volition not instrumentality place, metropolis leaders and assemblage members are stepping successful to marque definite section veterans inactive consciousness honored.
For years, the Veterans Day Parade has been a arrogant portion of Sanger’s assemblage tradition— but this year, it’s connected hold.
Sanger City Manager Nathan Olson said the parade, which usually takes spot connected the archetypal Saturday of November, was canceled aft a precocious announcement from the Chamber of Commerce.
“Typically, we person the parade the archetypal Saturday of November,” Olson said. “Unfortunately, we received a cancellation precocious past week from the chamber.”
The reason? Not capable participants signed up to enactment the event.
“The announcement I got said determination is simply a deficiency of entries to enactment a parade this year,” Olson explained.
Even without the parade, metropolis leaders and residents wanted to guarantee veterans were inactive recognized for their service. Olson said assemblage members rapidly came unneurotic to program a substitute event— a Veterans Day Luncheon.
“They wanted to marque definite that our section veterans and country veterans were honored,” Olson said. “So we had immoderate assemblage members leap into action.”
The luncheon volition beryllium held astatine Sanger Park, opening astatine noon connected Saturday, Nov. 1. The lawsuit volition see impermanent speakers, music, a DJ, and plentifulness of food— each escaped for veterans.
Olson says the lawsuit is 1 tiny mode for the metropolis to accidental 'thank you.'
“We person galore radical connected unit that are veterans,” helium said. “It’s a time that those who served clasp adjacent and beloved to their hearts. We privation to beryllium thankful for the freedoms we person today, for those who sacrificed and gave their clip and work to our nation.”
We reached retired to the Sanger Chamber of Commerce, but they were unavailable for comment.
