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A colourful. exciting spec- tacle of marching bands, magnificent floats, dirndl- clad girls, oompah music, clowns and fairy-tale char- acters, this year's Oktober- fest Thanksgiving Day Par- ade in Kitchener-Waterloo. again promises to be the highlight of the annual K-W festival. Page 14 - Waterloo Chronicle, Wednesday, October 6, 1976 "We're really emphasiz- Oktoberfest parade promises to be best yet Qualified Male and Female instructors licensed by the Ministry of Transporta- tion and Communications. 0 Patient and Courteous lnstructorsdor all ages . 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GISSET'I'E “canon lI/FI BIDIO ac-nc STEREO AMPLIFIER " WINS "S/Ott SIEIIEII FI-ll REGEIVEII 100 "I" OUR PRICE Diefenbaker will dedicate a speaker's rostrum and plaque at Speaker's Corner in downtown Kitchener commemorating the Cana- dian Bill of Rights. Eighteen marching bands. including three from the US., will participate. Lead- ing the four-mile-long pa- rade will be the Venturers, Kitchener's award-winning all-girl marching band. Oth- er local bands in the parade include the Flying Dutch- men, Dutch Boy Cadets and Kiwanis Kavaliers. It will be the last public appear- ance foy the Dutchmen and the Cadets before they amalgamate. Adding a little Scottish flavour to this year's pa- rade will be the -r' 100 Pipers of Canada" band, made up of top baigpipe players from across the country. _ There will' be" al major floats and 16 smaller ones in the 1976 parade. Several NOW NOW s299.95 NOW will be new this year, while others are being ex- tensively refurbished. Many will feature the parade theme: "Oktoberfest is Thanksgiving". "BP Canada is sponsor- ing a new float to carry Miss Oktoberfest and her court," says Mr. Wagner. "Forty feet long, it tea- tures a huge crown and throne surrounded by garlands of artificial flow- "Costain Homes of Kitch- ener is building a new float depicting the Pied Piper of Hamelin surrounded by dozens of small children", says the chairman. "And Tubby the Tuba will be the main attraction on Uni- royal Limited's new float. He'll be flanked by 24 marching tuba players." Spaced throughout the parade will be 250 area high school students dressed as animals, cartoon and fairy tale characters and a 200- member clown brigade trained by Don Scott of Kitch- '7'i"'it CAMPING Parkdale Plaza Albert at Hazel open 7 days a week Reserve your soasPn camping lot early, at PARKDALE PHARMACY Kitchener The parade leaves the corner of King and Erb Streets. Waterloo at 9:30 am, travels down King Street to Speaker's Corner, turns right and disperses on Benton Street. It will take about one hour and 15 minutes to pass any given point. Last year about 150,000 people lined the parade route. With good weather. this year's at- tendance should be even F igher. Pre-parade entertainment Storefront art at Oktoberfest Come out and choose your own site Saturdays Of Sundays call For the first time, the Waterloo Regional Artists' Association and the Gal- lery Blue are 1Rrrking to- gether to organize a special event for Oktoberfest. SU NVALLEY BEACH During the week of Octo- ber 13 to 16, art work that has been produced by local Artists will be on display only tt miles from Waterloo 634-8651 is being provided at Speak- er's Corner, K-W Hospital and the Carling Brewery in Waterloo by the Tyro- lear ensemble - Gandolf from Innsbruck. Austria, the Cameron Heights Oompah Band and Benny Martin's Oktoberfest Gemutlichkeit sponsored by J.M. Schneid- er Inc. and BF. Goodrich Canada Ltd. It will be tele- vised nationally on the CTV network beginning at 1:00 p.m. Thanksgiving Day. Both groups believe there is a wealth of talent in Waterloo Region in the field of visual art that is often unnoticed by the general public. If the works are displayed in local pro- prietors' windows, the public will get a better chance to view the artistic diversity the gagion has to offer they believe. in store fronts in Kitchener and Waterloo. The Artists' Association and Gallery Blue also be- lieve that by choosing a store-front location for the exhibition visual art will be presented as part of the real world rather than a world apart. The art will be displayed in 18 downtown Kitchener stores on King St. between Frederick St. and Water St. Twenty-three artists will have works displayed in the stores. They include Ed Schneider, Nancy-Lou Patterson. Don MacKay and Doreen Schaub. This year's parade is t