{"id":7932,"date":"2019-11-07T09:30:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=7932"},"modified":"2019-11-07T09:30:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T17:30:38","slug":"downtown-yakima-parade-to-honor-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/downtown-yakima-parade-to-honor-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Yakima Parade to Honor Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Yakima community will honor\nits veterans and all U.S. military veterans by staging the 2019 Veterans Day\nParade in Downtown Yakima on Monday, November 11<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; The parade is sponsored annually by the\nVeterans of Foreign Wars &#8211; Post 379.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The parade will begin at 10:45 am\nat the intersection of Yakima Avenue and 6<sup>th<\/sup> Street. The route will\ncontinue west on Yakima Avenue to 6<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue where marchers will\nturn south.&nbsp; The parade will end about a\nhalf-block east of the VFW &#8211; Post 379 building, which is located at 118 S. 5<sup>th<\/sup>\nAvenue. It is scheduled to end at 12:30 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fred Camerer of\nVFW Post 379 said the Veterans Day Parade Grand Marshal will be Chuck Austin, a\nveteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organizers\nanticipate approximately 750 participants and 50 vehicles in the parade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No parking will be allowed on\nYakima Avenue between 6<sup>th<\/sup> Street and 6<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue from 8:45\nam on November 11<sup>th<\/sup> until the parade is completed.&nbsp; Cars parked along that portion of Yakima\nAvenue during that time will be subject to being towed at the owner&#8217;s expense.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yakima Avenue will be closed to\nmotorized traffic from 6<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue to 6<sup>th<\/sup> Street. Naches\nAvenue will be closed from Yakima Avenue to Walnut Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Yakima-Veterans-Day-Parade-News-Release-1.pdf\">Yakima-Veterans-Day-Parade-News-Release-1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Yakima-Veterans-Day-Parade-News-Release-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima community will honor its veterans and all U.S. military veterans by staging the 2019 Veterans Day Parade in Downtown Yakima on Monday, November 11th.&nbsp; The parade is sponsored annually by the Veterans of Foreign Wars &#8211; Post 379. The parade will begin at 10:45 am at the intersection of Yakima Avenue and 6th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7940,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932\/revisions\/7940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}