Ypsilanti couple Robert and Samantha took their daughters Raimi and Zaina to the Ypsilanti Fourth of July parade for the first time. (Photo by Kody Klein)
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Thousands of people gathered for the 84th annual Ypsilanti Independence Parade on July 4.?This year, the parade followed West Cross Street from Oakwood Street all the way down to Depot Town. Before it began, throngs of people were lined along West Cross Street waiting to march.
"This is one of the prettiest streets in America," said Brian Mackie, prosecuting attorney for Washtenaw County. "I've always felt that way."?
Sitting along that street, waiting for the parade to start were Verna and William Hayes, who run the Ypsilanti Youth Orchestra. Verna said she has lived in Ypsilanti for 49 years and has seen many of the city's parades.?
"It's exciting to see the community come together to do something fun and to honor our heroes," she said.
There were several marching bands that participated in the parade, including one from the new Ypsilanti Community Schools. As the YCS marching band approached the intersection at Washtenaw Avenue, a bystander shouted, ?Wooo Grizzlies!? It was a show of support for the students, who officially became Grizzlies only three days beforehand.
When the Lincoln High School marching band got to Ballard Street,4-year-old Shyanne Wright couldn't help but dance. Shyanne?s mother, Jamadha, has brought her to the parade every year since she was born.
?There?s candy and fun,? Shyanne said as she swung her arms to the beat of the drumline.
Jamadha has lived in Ypsilanti her entire life. She said she loves the way the parade brings so many different parts of the community together.
"It's a family tradition, we come every year,? Jamadha said. ?I love the music, the interaction with everybody celebrating the Fourth." Continued...
Further down West Cross Street, right on the edge of Depot Town, Ypsilanti residents Robert and Samantha sitting on the curb, watching the parade with their two daughters Raimi and Zaina. Both Raimi and Zaina wore sunglasses and headbands with red and blue pompoms."I love the parade and the girls have so much fun," Samantha said. ?The marching bands are definitely the highlight.?
When asked what her favorite part of the parade was, Zaina took a moment to thoughtfully stroke her chin before she happily declared, "It's spectacular! I like the cars!"
The parade saw a wide variety of participants. There were local organizations, some religious and some civic like St. Andrew?s Lodge No. 7 and the Ypsilanti Navigators Pathfinder Club.
There were several groups in the parade that marched to advocate for public officials. Senator Rebekah Warren walked the parade with a crowd of supporters who wore red shirts with Warren?s name on it. They marched right behind a group of people who wore similar red shirts that said ?Team Dingell,? advocating for Congressman John Dingell. Though the choice of red was somewhat ironic, the color coordination between the groups seemed to convey a political solidarity between them.
Mackie walked in the parade too, right in front of the LHS marching band. But he didn?t have a crowd of supporters wearing specialty T-shirts.
One of the parade spectacles incited a bit of controversy. There were two gentlemen in a military-style jeep with an antique machine gun that lit up and made loud noises that simulated gunfire. One of the men manned the machine gun throughout the parade and local blogger Mark Maynard called his antics an "imagined killing spree."
But despite his concern for the spectacle, Maynard wrote in a comment that things like that are "kind of what makes Ypsi parades so beautiful. You really never know what you're going to get. One minute there's a character out of Apocalypse Now trying to gun you down, and the next there's a Christian family in the back of a pickup, singing songs about burning in hell in front of a red, white and blue cross."
Kody Klein is a multimedia journalist for Heritage Media. You may contact him at 734-429-7380 or via email at kklein@heritage.com.
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Thousands of people gathered for the 84th annual Ypsilanti Independence Parade on July 4.?This year, the parade followed West Cross Street from Oakwood Street all the way down to Depot Town. Before it began, throngs of people were lined along West Cross Street waiting to march.
"This is one of the prettiest streets in America," said Brian Mackie, prosecuting attorney for Washtenaw County. "I've always felt that way."?
Sitting along that street, waiting for the parade to start were Verna and William Hayes, who run the Ypsilanti Youth Orchestra. Verna said she has lived in Ypsilanti for 49 years and has seen many of the city's parades.?
"It's exciting to see the community come together to do something fun and to honor our heroes," she said.
There were several marching bands that participated in the parade, including one from the new Ypsilanti Community Schools. As the YCS marching band approached the intersection at Washtenaw Avenue, a bystander shouted, ?Wooo Grizzlies!? It was a show of support for the students, who officially became Grizzlies only three days beforehand.
When the Lincoln High School marching band got to Ballard Street,4-year-old Shyanne Wright couldn't help but dance. Shyanne?s mother, Jamadha, has brought her to the parade every year since she was born.
?There?s candy and fun,? Shyanne said as she swung her arms to the beat of the drumline.
Jamadha has lived in Ypsilanti her entire life. She said she loves the way the parade brings so many different parts of the community together.
"It's a family tradition, we come every year,? Jamadha said. ?I love the music, the interaction with everybody celebrating the Fourth."
Further down West Cross Street, right on the edge of Depot Town, Ypsilanti residents Robert and Samantha sitting on the curb, watching the parade with their two daughters Raimi and Zaina. Both Raimi and Zaina wore sunglasses and headbands with red and blue pompoms.
"I love the parade and the girls have so much fun," Samantha said. ?The marching bands are definitely the highlight.?
When asked what her favorite part of the parade was, Zaina took a moment to thoughtfully stroke her chin before she happily declared, "It's spectacular! I like the cars!"
The parade saw a wide variety of participants. There were local organizations, some religious and some civic like St. Andrew?s Lodge No. 7 and the Ypsilanti Navigators Pathfinder Club.
There were several groups in the parade that marched to advocate for public officials. Senator Rebekah Warren walked the parade with a crowd of supporters who wore red shirts with Warren?s name on it. They marched right behind a group of people who wore similar red shirts that said ?Team Dingell,? advocating for Congressman John Dingell. Though the choice of red was somewhat ironic, the color coordination between the groups seemed to convey a political solidarity between them.
Mackie walked in the parade too, right in front of the LHS marching band. But he didn?t have a crowd of supporters wearing specialty T-shirts.
One of the parade spectacles incited a bit of controversy. There were two gentlemen in a military-style jeep with an antique machine gun that lit up and made loud noises that simulated gunfire. One of the men manned the machine gun throughout the parade and local blogger Mark Maynard called his antics an "imagined killing spree."
But despite his concern for the spectacle, Maynard wrote in a comment that things like that are "kind of what makes Ypsi parades so beautiful. You really never know what you're going to get. One minute there's a character out of Apocalypse Now trying to gun you down, and the next there's a Christian family in the back of a pickup, singing songs about burning in hell in front of a red, white and blue cross."
Kody Klein is a multimedia journalist for Heritage Media. You may contact him at 734-429-7380 or via email at kklein@heritage.com.
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Source: http://heritage.com/articles/2013/07/08/ypsilanti_courier/news/doc51dae144e9d5d709181154.txt
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