Shriners Parade
Published 12:00 am Friday, April 15, 2011
Everyone is invited to join in a Shriners’ Parade as participant or spectator this Saturday with line-up a 9 a.m. and start time at 9:30.
Line-up is at Watts Street at American Legion Park with the route coming towards Batesville’s Downtown Square on Broadway straight through to the gazebo, then taking a right across the railroad track towards Stubbs and ending at Batesville Police Department on College Street.
The parade precedes initiation ceremonies the Shriners will be having in Batesville Saturday.
The Wahabi Shriners supports 22 Shriner children hospitals. Local Shriner Ricky Swindle said two children from Panola county are currently being treated in a Shriners hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana.