The Kiwanis Club of Chino Hills held its annual Chino Hills Christmas/Holiday Boat Parade on December 22nd and 23rd. There were up to 15 boats in the Parade on Saturday and up to 50 boats in the parade on Sunday.
FREE BOAT PARADE MAPS AVAILABLE
You can view and print Free Boat Parade Maps for both days of the parade by logging in to ChinoHills.com.
TWO NIGHTS OF FUN
On Saturday night at 7:00 PM, boats began staging at the Woodview Plaza on Pipeline and Chino Hills Parkway. From there the parade made its way through the neighborhood streets of Los Serranos. After a short break, the parade continued through the neighborhoods west of Pipeline and both north and south of Chino Hills Parkway. The parade ended back at the original staging area in the parking lot near Blockbuster and the Century 21 Office. The lesser amount of boats on the first night are due to the difficulty of pulling too many trailers through the residential areas.
On Sunday night at 7:00 PM, as many as 50 boats began staging on Eucalyptus Avenue, west of Peyton Drive. This larger parade made its way north on Peyton Drive to Grand Avenue and then east to the Boy's Republic Service Road, then south to Eucalyptus and finally back to the staging area.
HISTORY OF THE CHINO HILLS BOAT PARADE
According to City Council Member, Gwenn Norton-Perry, the Boat Parade actually began as a protest against city hood in the early 1990s. At the time, local opponents to Chino Hills forming as a city decorated their boats, hooked them up to their trailers, and pulled them through the neighborhoods with bullhorns encouraging residents to vote against city hood. Obviously they were unsuccessful in their attempts to block our incorporation as an independent city, but organizers and residents enjoyed the "parade" so much that they decided to repeat it. Now it has become a holiday tradition and gets support from the entire city.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year everyone.
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