Parade organizers ‘excited for Saturday’
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This article was published 06/06/2025 (301 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Final preparations are underway for the 69th edition of the Brandon Travellers’ Day Parade happening this Saturday.
With around 65 entries of floats, bands, old-fashioned cars and clowns, organizer Norm Joss said everyone is “excited for Saturday.”
Joss said parade participants are coming from as far away as Dugald and Winnipeg, and that everyone is keeping an eye on the weather.
There is a 40 per cent chance of rain on Saturday, Environment Canada said Thursday.
Joss said since the parade started in 1955, it has never been rained out, and that “it’ll have to be a downpour” for the event to be called off. He added that thundershowers would also cancel the event for safety reasons.
“We will go ahead as far as we can, we’ll play it by ear,” he said. “If there is a question about the weather and the parade being on, then we’ll notify radio stations to let people know whether the parade is on or it’s off.”
Joss said the parade, which is scheduled to start at 11 a.m., won’t be rescheduled if the weather doesn’t co-operate.
The parade will start at the corner of Rosser Avenue and Sixth Street, before heading down Rosser toward 13th Street. It will turn south to College Avenue and then head east toward 10th Street. The parade will again turn south and end at Queens Avenue.
Joss said barricades will go up for the affected streets at around 10 a.m. Saturday, and will come down when the parade ends just after 12:30 p.m.
He said people can set up with lawn chairs along the parade route and be ready for candy to be given out.
» alambert@brandonsun.com