An estimated 500-plus visitors enjoyed the pancake breakfast, youngsters on bicycles with bouquets of orange balloons paid tribute to the lives lost at residential schools as they headed off down the parade route, with more than 30 emergency service vehicles, business entries ranging from decorated cars to a shiny new cement truck, antique cars, horse-drawn wagons, a horseback rider, a unicorn pulling a carriage of princesses and even a Lightning McQueen lookalike following along.
Not long after the parade had passed, a block-long lineup was forming, headed for the pizza restaurant, where starting at 1 p.m., 150 free pizzas and pasta dishes were handed out in just 14 minutes, before everyone headed home or to the lake to find respite from temperatures in the mid-30-degree range.
