Parade launches community-wide 2000 celebration

By Sam Scott

It's been a hectic time for the organizers of the kickoff parade for the year-long Celebrate Sunnyvale 2000 series. In the middle of the season of rush, Y2K concerns, and winter colds, volunteers have been planning a major event to celebrate Sunnyvale's entry into a new century.

"It's been an awful lot of work," Suzi Blackman, the chair of the parade, says. "But people are really excited about so it's been fun."

Blackman and her team have assembled a growing list of more than 60 teams of entrants, ranging from classic car clubs to the Fremont High Marching band to synchronized grocery bag packers to a team of huskies mushing in front of a wheeled sled.

The Mayor, Vice-Mayor, and councilmembers will also take part in the parade. Chuck Stowell and Charles Olson, two of Sunnyvale's last agricultural landowners, will be marshals.

"We're twice as big as we though we'd be," says Margaret Lawson, the head of Celebrate Sunnyvale 2000. "It's a real parade."

There's room for more. Blackman says people wishing to join the flow of floats, marchers, musicians, and dancers can sign up as late as this Friday by calling the Chamber of Commerce.

The parade begins at 10 a.m. at the corner of Central and Olive Avenues, near Ellis Elementary School.

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