This years Grand Marshall's are Kim and Steve Masoner who are known locally for their involvement with Save Our Beach, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving our water quality along the Southern California coastline. Along with the Masoner's was the 2011 Little League World Series champions from Ocean View Little League in Huntington Beach, Calif. Ocean View Little League had beaten the little leaguers from Japan on August 28, 2011 and now have come back to wish us all a very merry Christmas by being the Junior Grand Marshals for this years parade.
This years parade had gotten so much bigger than previous years that an entire section of the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) had to be shut down and diverted down to Bolsa Chica Ave. "In past years, parade entrees would finish just prior to PCH and have to make their way back to their way back to their vehicles that were often on the other side of the heavy traffic that had accumulated on PCH," states a one John Rivers who has been an attendee of the parade for the past 10 years.
This years parade has also mean a lot to parade goers emotionally since the tragedy this past fall. Lisa Brown of Even More Salon gave her deepest sympathies to the family and friends of the victims, and she went onto talk about how the need for the parade this year, "tonight's parade is good for the people of Seal Beach because it allows us to have a good time with the upcoming holidays while still remembering those who left us so unexpectedly."
This years parade had about 110 entries and over 3,000 participants coming from all over the city and among these entries was the Los Alamitos Marching Band who stopped over at the T.V. area and played a few Holiday favorites for the crowd to make sure that they were pumped for the cold evening ahead of them. Thousands were in attendance for this years parade and it still managed to make it feel like a small town parade for a beach city.
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