Parade

• All Roads to the Parade Route Close at 9:30 AM
• Come to town early and pick your spot to enjoy the morning festivities!
• The 27th July 4th 5K begins at 9:45 AM
• Minnesota’s oldest & largest 4th of July Parade Begins at 10:30 AM (map below)
• 2011 Grand Marshal is Delano High School Football Coaching Legend, Merrill Pavlovich!
  
    Other events on July 4
• GoldStar Carnival opens at Noon
• Professional Wrestling with Buck "Rock-N-Roll" Zumhofe, 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
   Location: Near bingo stand
• Expanded Entertainment Tent, RAIN OR SHINE: Soul Sisters, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
• Softball Tournaments continues, 12:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
•  Men’s Modified Tournament Championship Game, 8:30 p.m.
• American Legion Baseball Tournament continues, 2:30 p.m., 5:00 p.m., Championship at 7:45 p.m.
  Expanded Entertainment Tent, RAIN OR SHINE: Diamond Back, 8:00 p.m. – Midnight
• Huge Fireworks Show at 10:30 p.m.
• This year featuring a 16" diamaeter rocket, the largest ever launched in Delano!

The parade begins at Delano High School at the corner of Tiger Drive and Elm Avenue and ends at the Central Park at North River Street and 3rd Street.

2011 - Merrill Pavlovich, MSHSL Coaching Hall of Famer, Delano HS Football

2010 - John Randle, NFL Hall of Fame

2009 - Mike Lynch, WCCO Radio Meterologist

2008 - Margaret (Cedergren) Vaughan, First Miss Delano (1968)

2007 - Jason Davis, KSTP TV "On the Road"

2006 - Tim Pawlenty, MN Governor

2005 - Brock Lesnar, NCAA Wrestling Champion

2004 - Delano Academics: Destination Imagination/Science Olympiad

2003 - Lori Line, musician

2002 - The Durst Quadruplets

2001 - Nate Althoff, Utah Utes Basketball

2000 - Scouting in Delano: Wylene Van Guilder and Burton Barber, Scout Leaders

1999 – Ragnar, Minnesota Vikings Mascot

1998 – Jesse Ventura, Governor, Professional Wrestler, Actor

1997 – Terri Traen, KQRS Radio Host

1996 – Crunch, MN Timberwolves Mascot

1995 – Roger Erickson, WCCO Radio

1994 – Char Iten

1993 – Palani Theis, 1993 Easter Seal Society Child Representative

1992 – Sally Adams, “Billboard Sally” (see: A knack for knowing things: stories from St. Paul neighborhoods and beyond  By Don Boxmeyer, p. 160)

1991 – Sgt. Loren Stabnow, Desert Storm Vet

1990 – Gordon Barnden, Royal British Legion Club, Walton-On-Naze, Essex, England

1989 – Martin and Kitty Van Lith, WWII veterans

1988 – Craig Hartsburg, Minnesota North Stars

1987 – Neal Broten, Minnesota North Stars

1986 – Corrie Jean Dibb, Miss Minnesota US Teen 1986

1985 – Veterans: Henry Elsen, WWI; Donald Weigenant, WWII; Joseph Kittok, Vietnam

1984 – Bill Farmer, WCCO

1983 – Ray Christensen, WCCO

1982 – Ray Christensen, WCCO

1981 –

1980 –

1979 –

1978 –

1977 – Hubert H. Humphrey, Senator

1976 – Hubert H. Humphrey, Senator

Compiled by Ryan Gueningsman of the Delano Herald Journal and Bill Eppel with information from the Bill Eppel collection. If anyone has information on grand marshals prior to 1976 (or 1978-1981), contact Gueningsman at:
(763) 972-1028 or at ryan@heraldjournal.com.