Created: Saturday, September 13, 2008 12:00 a.m. CDT
Updated: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 7:38 a.m. CDT
FONT SIZE:

Homestead parade line up

The Bureau County Homestead Festival parade steps off at 1:30 p.m. from Nelson’s Drug on Princeton’s North Main Street. The parade ends at Soldiers and Sailors Park on South Main Street.

1.    Princeton Combined Color Guard

2.    Black Hawk Pipes and Drums

2a. Boy Scout Troop 68/Freedom Flag

3.    Princeton Police Department

4.    Sheriff John Thompson

5.    Grand Marshals — Keith and Julia Cain

6.    PHS pom pons

7.    PHS Marching Tigers

8.    PHS cheerleaders

9.    Princeton Chamber Ambassadors

10. Princeton Junior Women’s Club baby winners

11. Ronald McDonald

12. Learning Ladder Early Childhood Center

13. Homestead Festival play

14. Bureau County Senior Citizens Association king and queen

15. Freedom House

16. Bureau County Historical Society

17. Orchard View

18. Lovejoy Homestead float

19. Tiskilwa Citizens of the Year

20. 1922 Nash touring car

21. New Generation Fancy Drill Team

22. St. Louis School

23. 1931 Model A

24. Colonial Hall Care Center

25. Bureau County Fair royalty

26. Citizens’ Medallion winners

27. Citizens First National Bank

28. Walnut chamber of Commerce

29. Princeton Jaycees

30. Jesse White Tumblers

31. BCSCA State Spelling Bee co-winner

31a. Whiebs’ Roadhouse Harley-Davidson

32. Bureau County Senior Center

33. Sen. Dale Risinger

34. Rep. Don Moffitt

35. Marty Ozinga for Congress

36. 1947 Chevrolet pickup

37. Main Street Dance Academy

38. Princeton DAR chapter

39. Princeton Civil War Committee

40. Illinois National Guard - Kewanee

41. World War II Army truck

42. Kiwanis

43. Perry Memorial Hospital

44. Bureau Valley High School band

45. Autumn Princess Pageant

46. Friends of Strays

47. Laurie Abrahams - Circuit Clerk

48. Debbie Halverson for Congress

49. Someone’s in the Kitchen

50. Mel & Mel-o-dee calliope

51. Princeton Lions Club

52. Zearing Child Enrichment Center

53. PHS Class of 1953

54. 1915 Peter Pirsch fire truck

55. Doggie Square Dance

56. Liberty Village of Princeton

57. Princeton Red Hats

58. PHS Class of 1958

59. Northern Illinois Valley Shrine  club

59a. Princeton Theatre Group

60. GFWC - Princeton

61. Two Guys Limo

62. Jazzercise

63.

64. Bureau County Red Cross

65. Princeton Fire Department

66. Malden Fire Department

67. Manlius Fire Department

67a. Ohio Fire Department

68. PHS Class of 1968

69. Bourbon Street 5 + 2

70. Security Finance

71. Shane’s Shine Shop

71a. Princeton Christian Academy

72. Happily Ever After Cakery

73. PHS Class of 1973

74. LCN

75. Mothers of Preschoolers

76. Browning Dealerships

77. Wyanet Locker

78.   

79. St. Louis Respect Life

80. Logan Junior High band

80a. Double-D Express

81. Verizon Wireless

82. Jillian’s Hair Design

82a. United Pentecostal Church

83. PHS Class of 1983

84. Bureau County Youth Development Coalition

85. Gateway Services

86. Wise Guys burger eating contest

87. Nightmare on Fairgrounds Road

88. PHS Class of 1988

89. Bureau Creek Vineyards

90. Girl Scouts

91. First Lutheran Church

91a. First Baptist Church

92. Bureau Valley Hospice

93. PHS Class of 1993

94. The Generics

95. Bureau County United Way/CMA

96. Lover’s Lane Turkey Buzzards

97. Bureau County Blaze

98. PHS Class of 1998

99. Princeton Elks Lodge

100. Loretta Volker

101. Scooter with wagon

102. Lee County Voiture 409

103. PHS Class of 2003

104. First Christian Church of Walnut

105. Bethel Baptist Church

106. Sisler’s Ice Cream and Ice

107. Ladd Minor League Baseball All-Stars

108. PHS Class of 1992

109. Canton of Athelington - SCA

110. Antique tractors

111. Case 300 tractor

112. Tractors

112a. Committee to Elect Jason Wallace

113. South Shore Drill Team

114. Young Life

115. Church of the Transfiguration

116. Purdy Brothers Trucking

117. Elvis Live

118. Service Master

119. Centrue Bank

119a.    Tiskilwa Community Association

120. Knights of Columbus

121. Save the Hennepin Canal

122. Horses

123. Bureau County Mounted Search and Rescue

June 9, 2009
 
Memorial unveiled