We Love a Parade

Friday, July 18, 2014
Putnam County Fair Parade royalty watch the proceedings from beneath a canopy on the Masonic Temple lawn Friday night after riding in the parade themselves. Grand Marshals Jinsie Bingham (left) and Gerald and Dorothy Edwards are joined by the Edwards' grandson, Elijah Frank, and the 2014 Fair Queen Brittany Birt.

The annual parade kicked off the 2014 Putnam County Fair Friday with pageantry and memories. While parade-goers enjoy a visit by Winnie the Pooh, giving bear hugs courtesy First National Bank, and the color and choreography of the North Putnam flag corps, there was also time to reflect on the recent passing of 4-H'er Riley Sutherlin, remembered by a sign-carrying trio (from left) Heather Goss, Tyler McClintock and Brooke Cundiff.

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