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Parade draws many
entries, large crowd
By MARNIE TURMAN
Rappahannock New* Staff Intern
Highlighting the Flint Hill firemen’s parade last Thursday evening was its perennial favorite, the newly crowned Miss Virginia. This year it was Northern Virginia’s Heidi Lammi, who after leading the parade helped judge the entries.
According to parade organizer Moe Walker, more than 100 fire and rescue units from as far away as Southern Maryland traveled to Flint Hill for the annual event. And crowds lined the streets on both sides of the parade route, craning their necks for a look at the gleaming equipment, the variety of civic floats, the high school bands, majorettes, drum and bugle corps, clowns and other comic entries which swelled the ranks and jammed the streets.
A number of awards were given to the fire and rescue companies which participated in the parade. The Best Appearing Fire Department award was split into two categories: communities with less than 500 population and those greater than 500.
First place for towns of more than 500 population went to the Orange Volunteer Fire Department, second place went to Spotsylvania VFD and third place was won by Warrenton VFD. For communities of less than 500 population, first place was won by Lois VFD of Fauquier County, second place went to Brandy Station VFD in Culpeper County, and third place was awarded to Rappahannock’s own Chester Gap VFD.
Sperryville VFD took home the trophy for the Best Appearing Brush Truck, with second place going to neighboring Salem VFD.
Warren County’s Fort Valley VFD was judged to have the Best Appearing Attack Unit, and North Mountain VFD took home the second place trophy in that category.
The Best Appearing Tanker award was won by Marbury, Maryland’s Tgnth.
” * brought a huge* District VFD, which 3,000-gallon tanker equipped with a foam unit. The truck was so large that it could not negotiate the turn from Rt. 522 onto the Fodderstack Road, and had to continue up Rt. 522 and enter the carnival grounds from another direction. Marbury also took home the trophy for the fire department travelling the greatest distance to the parade.
The award for the Oldest Piece of
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