2023 Norwood Christmas Parade - bringing joy to the local community

Merry Christmas! We marshal this pageant in conjunction with the council every year. I've been doing this now for 43 years, so every year we've had a pageant. So it's been a long time. At least 20,000. It's getting bigger and bigger every year. And they've actually put on more floats this year to cope with the numbers. About 70 this year. The vast bulk of the floats are community organisations here in Norwood. We are with a group of churches who are running the carols truck. So we sing the Christmas carols, have the nativity scene float behind us, and we hand out the bubbles for the kids. Well, Christmas spirit, we obviously love to celebrate. It's when Jesus was born, when God came to earth to show his love for us. So we are the City of Elizabeth, Cape Town. And we've been going since 1965. And we wear the Queen's tartan, the Royal Stuart. And we have a letter from the Queen saying that we're allowed to wear the tartan. We are always looking for new members, learners, or experienced papers or drummers. And we do provide tuition. We're Unley Concert Band from the Unley Council, and we were formed in 1997. The outstanding feature of our group is that we are a high-performing concert band who's competed at nationals and previously won and places high regularly. We are the Tipperary Redbacks, a marching and concert band. We involve choreographed moves as we play our music. Come and join us. We are here with Margaret Ives Children's Centre, Childcare and Early Childhood Centre. I think the Christmas spirit for us is all about having fun with our families and our friends and the spirit of giving. I think we would like people to know that Margaret Ives is a very welcoming community. We're having a great time here with our families and our friends today. And we're all really looking forward to meeting our new friends who are joining us next year for childcare in 2024. We're here with Loretto College Marriott. We're all here today. ELC to Year 12, I should say. We're very passionate, excited to be here and joining the Christmas spirit today. I think it's about being generous, connecting with one another. Gets to experience the Christmas. We're Burnside Kindergarten. We're a movement programme for 0-5 year olds. We're based just in Gill Road at Beulah Park. This is about our 25th year in the pageant. So we join in every year and we have beautiful families that join in with us and walk along. College Park Scout Group. So we're a local scout group. We offer joeys, pups, scouts and venturers. So our ages range from 5 to 17. For me it's all about family and friends getting together and celebrating the year that you've had. We're from Rose Park Preschool. We're a lovely community preschool. Yeah, we're a government preschool. We just love coming to the Norwood Pageant every year to see past members of the community and yeah, just share the Christmas spirit. Clare Sanders School of Dance. We're a dance school located in Prospect. Anyone from the age of 6 months all the way to an adult. We have budget friendly classes and we also have classes for children wanting to do exams and competitions. Christmas is all about love, joy and happiness and spending it with family and friends. I'm from Karakara Rhythmic Gymnastics Club. We are the first rhythmic gymnastics club in the entire country and we have been going for over 40 years. That entire time we've been in Adelaide, mostly in the old Norwood Morialta High School gymnasium. We like the idea of giving and showcasing how hard people have worked and what they're rewarded for it. We're a local residential builder that specialises in high end renovations. We do anything from a bathroom all the way through to a full home extension. Christmas spirit is just about getting together with family and friends, doing community events and giving back to everybody that's helped us out throughout the year. This is the club of the Volkswagen of South Australia. We're representing the Volkswagen Club. We obviously just enjoy each other's company on a monthly basis. We're just having fun with little old Volkswagen cars. We're the Country Fire Service, so we're a group of volunteer firefighters. We fight fires and other emergencies. It's a great social event and it's really good to give back to the community and enjoy it with everyone. Merry Christmas! Ho, ho, ho, ho!