Weather Cancels Sound View Parade … But It Happens Anyway … on Much Smaller Scale!

“This sense of community – of caring – is what makes Sound View special” (Mary Daley)

Whatever the weather, we are having a parade! Photo by Debra Tulisano.

OLD LYME— Rain may have canceled Sound View’s traditional parade but Joann Lishing, who assists with organizing the parade, tells LymeLine, “Decorated people, golf carts, and so forth, showed up and had their own parade!”

Rain did not dampen the spirits of these folk, who had planned to participate in the parade. Photo by Joann Lishing.

Sound View resident and LymeLine reader Mary Daley adds, “The children, parents and residents of Sound View marched anyway during a break in the rain and completed the route in red, white and blue splendor.”

Carousel owners Dee and Jerry Vowles generously offered free rides to all the parade participants. Photo by Debra Tulisano.

She notes, “Many thanks to the Shoreline Community Center for their generosity in providing ballons and participation prizes to the children and many thanks to the Vowles Family for opening up the carousel free of charge this [Saturday] morning.”

It may have rained on our parade—but we’re having it anyway! Photo by Debra Tulisano.

Daley concludes, “This sense of community – of caring – is what makes Sound View special.”