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          Parade of Lights
        
        
          Annual Rotary parade begins weekend Pumpkin Festival
        
        
          The Annual Parade of Lights
        
        
          begins the City of Romulus Pumpkin
        
        
          Festival at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21.
        
        
          Dozens of lighted vehicles, floats,
        
        
          people and even animals will parade
        
        
          in front of thousands of residents and
        
        
          visitors throughout downtown
        
        
          Romulus.
        
        
          The Romulus Rotary Club antici-
        
        
          pates dozens of entries with $100
        
        
          prizes being awarded to the winners
        
        
          in each of six categories: commercial,
        
        
          motorized,
        
        
          non-motorized
        
        
          (people/animal-powered), classic cars
        
        
          (and other forms of transportation),
        
        
          live music and schools. All entries
        
        
          and participants must be decorated
        
        
          with working lights - the more lights
        
        
          the better.
        
        
          There is no fee to enter and
        
        
          advance registration is requested, but
        
        
          not mandatory. The night of the
        
        
          parade, participants start assembling
        
        
          at 6:30 on Goddard Road east of
        
        
          Wayne Road. Participants can arrive
        
        
          no later than 7:30 p.m. At 8 p.m., rain
        
        
          or shine, the parade entries make
        
        
          their way west and south toward Five
        
        
          Points.
        
        
          At the end of the parade route, par-
        
        
          ticipants are invited to enjoy free
        
        
          refreshments at the Progressive Club
        
        
          Hall, 11580 Ozga St.
        
        
          The application and a complete set
        
        
          of rules can be found at 
        
        
        
          book.com/RomulusRotary andwww.
        
        
          romulusgov.com/PumpkinFestival.
        
        
          Organizers request that the appli-
        
        
          cation be filled out and mailed to