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PHOTOS FROM THE 2011 WILI BOOM BOX PARADE
Wayne Norman photos
 Willimantic Food Co-Op
 The Co-op girls did occasional dance routines with their shopping carts
 John Schwenk from the Co-Op uses spring stilts to move his cart
 A big group from Cub Pack 35
 ECSU President Elsa Nunez (R) steers Eastern's Ship of State
 Ken Gardner (R) of Lebanon passed out hundreds of American flags from his golf cart
 Some tall people came to the parade
 The Caring Families Coalition brought a red Chinese dragon
 Former Romantic Willimantic Cupids Pam and Bob Horrocks (L) with the Victorian Neighborhood Association
 Folks from the Windham Public Schools--including Superintendent Ana Ortiz (in red) so a synchronized dance routine
 Willimantic Head Start brought a large group
 2011 was the first parade appearance by Windham's school crossing guards
  The Silverback Wrestling Club put on occasional grappling demos
 This guy found a different way to give out candy
 Bob Burns with a "Support Our Troops" theme, as his son Jared returns home soon from a tour with the Air Force in Iraq
 George Washington, with some of his friends from Willimantic and Mansfield, crossing the Delaware
 Villari's School of Martial Arts
 The Haggerty family's Haggerosa Hollywood entry, complete with a replica Hollywood sign
 A unicycle club brought the hula girls
 Willimantic Waste's choreographed trash bins
 Nice ride
 Willimantic girls softball
 The bug gets the message
 Mountain Dairy
 Scott Adams honors the Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins--he had a similar theme after the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series.
 Ladds Garden Center handed out plants
 Nathan Hale's pals
 Hosmer Mountain Bottling whipping up its latest award-winning drink
 One of the four Traveling Fish Head Club fishes--celebrating thier 25th year in the parade
 Winnie the Pooh going after the honey
  More of the Haggery family--their 1932 fire engine
 Another amazing float by the Willimantic Brewing Company/Main Street Cafe: Willi (David) Wollner and the Beer Factory. David is up top.
 Willimantic Brewing Company people give out (non alcoholic) drinks to spectators. Notice the paddlewheel, the frogs, and the lollipops.
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