Bristol Township Holiday Parade Marches On Beautiful Saturday

Haines and Mill Creek roads were lined with families Saturday as the annual Bristol Township Holiday Parade signaled the official start of the season.

Despite the seemingly unseasonably warm weather for mid-November, smiling faces were omnipresent along the parade route. People coming to the parade were made up of different groups from different Bucks County towns. Some lived close enough to walk, and did at the parade’s conclusion, but others came all the way from Bensalem, Newtown and beyond.

Howard Hoehmann, who lives in Croydon, said this was his first time coming with his family to the parade. “It was nice. I thought it was great and the kids loved it,” he said.

For more than 10 years, Levittown resident John Shannon’s parents, Marsha and Tom, come up from Bensalem to join him for the annual parade. “I think more communities should do that [have parades], get people together like this,” Shannon’s mother, Marsha Shannon said. In recent years, John Shannon’s young son Josh has been accompanying the trio to the parade.

Local police, fire companies, sports teams and dance squads marched along the parade route that started at James Buchanana Elementary School and ended at the Benjamin Franklin School.