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25th Annual Christmas Parade draws large crowd to downtown Merced

A large crowd lined the streets in downtown Merced on Saturday afternoon to enjoy the 25th Annual Merced Christmas Parade.

The parade featured marching bands from Golden Valley and Merced high schools and Tenaya, Hoover and Cruickshank middle schools.

Many of the crowd arrived hours before the parade to save prime seats along the route on Main Street.

This story was originally published December 7, 2019 at 6:54 PM.

Shawn Jansen
Merced Sun-Star
Sports writer Shawn Jansen has been covering Merced area sports for 20 years. He came to Merced from Suisun City and is a graduate of San Diego State University. Prior to the Sun-Star, Shawn worked at the Daily Republic in Fairfield.
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