In light of the West Side Nut Club cancelling its parade and the Fall Festival and with the growing cases of coronavirus in our area, the Evansville Christmas parade committee has voted to cancel the “2020 Evansville’s Christmas on North Main Parade and Santa’s Workshop” that was scheduled for November 22.
The committee had met previously and determined that we would check the situation with the pandemic the first of July. We had heard that the West Side Nut Club may be cancelling so we thought we would wait to hear their decision. Last Wednesday, when we heard the news that the Fall Festival was cancelled; we polled all of the Christmas parade committee members and the vote was 11-2 that we cancel the 2020 parade.
“Our biggest concern was the safety of the viewers and participants even though it is an outside event”, Gail Knight Williams, Director of the Evansville Christmas Parade stated. She continues by saying “We know we are not as big as the Fall Festival however we still draw approximately 10,000 viewers and participants. We also know there would be no way to impose social distancing, so it would be a very risky situation to have that large of a crowd gather”.
The parade committee will begin planning for the 2021 parade in January.
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