City's 89th Veterans Day Parade is Tuesday

by, B. POOLE and GARRY DUFFY Tucson Citizen

As it has done every year since 1919, American Legion Post 7 will sponsor a Veterans Day Parade downtown, the post secretary said.

"It's just one way we pay tribute to all veterans," Helen Stout said.

Tuesday's parade will feature 86 entries,including the Shriners and four high school marching bands - Rincon/University, Palo Verde High Magnet, Cholla High Magnet and Catalina Magnet High - Boy, Girl and Cub scouts, and numerous veterans groups, Stout said.

Retired Army Brig. Gen. John Adams will be the grand marshal, and Army National Guard Maj. Chad Smith will be the reviewing officer. Davis-Monthan Air Force Base commander Col. Paul T. Johnson will be in the reviewing stand, Stout said.

Junior ROTC units from Flowing Wells, Cholla and Desert View high schools will participate, as will a nine-member honor guard of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Staging will start at 9:30 a.m. The parade will start at 10:30 a.m. at West 13th Street and South Sixth Avenue, go north on Sixth to West Broadway, then west on Broadway to Granada Avenue and south on Granada to the Tucson Convention Center.

Motor vehicle traffic along the parade route will be prohibited. Minor traffic restrictions downtown between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m are expected.

The parade will end around 12:30 p.m.