Friday, October 5, 2007

Columbus Day Parade set to embark

By Deborah S. Morris
deborah.morris@newsday.com

The Town of Huntington will host Long Island’s largest Columbus Day Parade on Sunday, Oct. 7. The parade, sponsored by the Order Sons of Italy in America, kicks off at 12:30 and has it’s Grand Marshals New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli and John Caracciolo, president of the The Morey Organization. The Parade route will follow Main Street (Route 25A) in Huntington, beginning at the YMCA and Park Avenue and proceeding west to West Neck Road and Gerard Street.

The Huntington Chamber of Commerce Fall Festival will be in full swing once the parade is over. Paradegoers can look forward to food, carnival rides and games as well as a beer and wine tasting tent. Jets and Giant fans should not despair about missing the game. A 60-inch plasma HDTV showing the match up will be featured in the beer and wine tent.

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