<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Saturday morning the weather will be beautiful for the Pride
parade. Please join ACLU Champaign
county to support this important and fun event (information below) We have a
supportive message to send and goodies to distribute to the crowd mostly along Green
street (some candy, some ACLU stickers, some leis, and some pride flags)
because this is a parade lavish with goodies. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We are number 64 in a parade of 69 and I will be checking in
at the starting location at South Gregory and W Illinois by 10:45.
Because we are so late in the lineup and don\u2019t have vehicles or floats, we
aren't stressed to be earlier. The parade starts at 11</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Here is the official information</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;border:none;padding:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">Reporting for Parade Line
Up:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black"> <b>South
Gregory & W. Illinois </b></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;border:none;padding:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black">Parade participants who are walking, biking,
rolling or riding in a vehicle should report between 10:15 and 10:45am</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;border:none;padding:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto">you may throw candy, and you're encouraged to do so! </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto">Please throw softly and underhand and
toward where the street meets the sidewalk so kids don't go running into the
middle of the street where they could get hurt by parade participants.<b> But
absolutely NO GLITTER OR CONFETTI MAY BE THROWN per city regulations</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;border:none;padding:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;border:none;padding:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto">Please make sure to represent Pride in your decorations,
attire, signage, etc. Each parade entry should be colorful, with the
recommendation of representing the LGBTQ+ Rainbow colors of Red (light), Orange
(healing), Yellow (sun), Green (calmness/nature), Blue (serenity/harmony), and
Purple (spirit).</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto;color:black"></span></b></p>
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