PHOTOS: Burning Mountain Festival parade brings out bubbles, water and sunshine
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Katherine Tomanek/Post Independent
Saturday was a picture perfect morning for an exciting parade in New Castle as part of the Burning Mountain Festival. Multiple floats participated to show various parts of the community.
A family drove by on a bright red fire truck from New Castle, waving and calling. The cheerleading team from Coal Ridge High School followed their peers from the marching band, shaking their white pompoms in deep blue uniforms, leading the football team down Main Street. The float by the Kathryn Senor Elementary School was decorated vividly in pink posters and worldly colors, holding a group of young children dressed in red and blue.
Numerous other floats from local businesses, Colorado Mountain College, community groups and schools came down the street, representing parts of New Castle and nearby Rifle, Silt and Glenwood Springs.
Finally, the last float of the procession had a massive bubble machine on the back, which left incandescent miniature mountains of bubbles in the street. Children ran to let the streams of soap and water fall on them before they could touch the ground.
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