Columbus Day Parade: 110th procession celebrates community’s ethnic diversity
October 20, 2016 at 4:27 a.m.
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Saints Brigade Drum & Bugle Corps play in front of the reviewing stand.</span>
<p class="Picture">Daliyah Hall, 3, of Haseco Avenue eats blue cotton candy matching the color of her jacket as she watches the parade go by.</p>
<p class="Picture">Girl dressed in colorful Mexican garb. </p>
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Leonidas Estrada and daughter Ana of Port Chester watch the parade together seated on the curb.</span>
<p class="Picture">Martine Rojas carries daughter Marianna, 2, on his shoulders as he makes his way down Westchester with the Port Chester Salvation Army group.</p>
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The group from John F. Kennedy Magnet School processes en masse.</span>
<p class="Picture">Eighth grader Erin Dubie plays bass clarinet with the Port Chester Middle School 7<sup>th</sup> and 8<sup>th</sup> Grade Band.</p>
<p class="Picture">A costumed character marching with a Mexican group needs help tying his shoe.</p>
<p class="Picture">Kids representing Port Chester’s St. Peter’s Episcopal Church wave diverse countries’ flags from the back of a pickup truck.</p>
<p class="Picture">The diverse group that makes up the students in the Port Chester Head Start program trudge down Westchester.</p>
<p class="Picture">The King Street School contingent</p>
<p class="Picture">Senior Christina Chumpitazi plays flute in the Port Chester High School Band.</p>
<p class="Picture">Members of various Port Chester and Rye Brook Girl Scout and Brownie troops march as one.</p>
<p class="Picture">Port Chester Boy Scout Troop 400</p>
<p class="Picture">Third Degree members of the Father John M. Grady Council of the Knights of Columbus sashay their way down Westchester Avenue in the parade.</p>
<p class="Picture">The Port Chester-based Saints Brigade Drum & Bugle Corps marches under the 110<sup>th</sup> Year Anniversary Columbus Day Parade banner toward the end of the parade route.</p>
<p class="Picture">Sixteen-year-old Daisy Garcia, a Port Chester High School junior, does a brisk business selling homemade cupcakes and churritos in front of 305 Westchester Ave. </p>
<p class="Picture">First grader Marcela Rosa, marching with the Edison School contingent, raises her pom poms high in the air.</p>
<p class="Picture">Jasmine Rivera, 9, of Upland Street watches the procession with her doll Alexandria.</p>
<p class="Picture">Elia Mateus, marching with the Port Chester Middle School 6<sup>th</sup> Grade Band, taps out the rhythm on her drum.</p>
<p class="Picture">King Street School third grader Aaliyah Flecha shakes her pom poms as she marches.</p>
<p class="Picture">Port Chester Brownie Troop 2367 members Kelly Pascale, Sophia Moore and Maya Scher make their way along the parade route.</p>
<p class="Picture">Grand Marshal and Port Chester Police Chief Richard Conway marches with the Columbus Day Celebration Committee at the front of the Port Chester/Rye Brook Columbus Day Parade.</p>
<p class="Picture">Freshman Megan Gleason, a member of the Port Chester High School Band color guard, proudly carries an unfurled red, white and blue flag that catches the wind as she passes by on Sunday, Oct. 16. It was postponed a week due to rain. Photo story by Richard Abel</p>
