Bands blare, pride is shared at 113th Columbus Day Parade
October 17, 2019 at 6:43 a.m.
Followed by a sea of students demonstrating school pride in their red shirts, the Park Avenue School owl mascot (played by teacher’s assistant Marvin DeLeon) dances down Westchester Avenue on Sunday, Oct. 13, at the 113th Columbus Day Parade.
While waving American and Italian flags, Grand Marshal Tom Kissner leads local politicians down the road during the procession.
With his baton high in the air, Port Chester High School junior Brandon Molano leads the Pride of Port Chester down Westchester Avenue.
With proper form, King Street School third-grader Emma Santos heads the line of other cheerleaders marching in the Columbus Day Parade.
Representing Cub Scout Pack 3 of Rye Brook, Ridge Street School third-graders Matthew Geller (left), Hunter Genovese and Samantha Geller proudly march with the troop’s banner.
Smiling like royalty, Miss Carver Center and Grace Church Street resident Jada Smith, a Port Chester High School senior, gracefully waves to the crowds from the top of a convertible.
Sitting outside of the Ortiz Funeral Home on Westchester Avenue, Seymour Road residents Blanca Islas and Cayetano Aparicio grin as they watch the parade with their 3-year-old daughter Ahitana Samantha.
With pretty tiara and long Mexican dress, Oak Street resident Leslie Cruz, 23, walks in front of two large conjoined Mexican and American flags during the procession.
Christopher Columbus, played by Port Chester Italian Heritage Club member Stephen Tofano, sits on top of a parade float mimicking one of his iconic ships and looks out of his old-timey monocular.
Christine Yozzo (left) takes her phone out to record the blaring fire trucks beginning the parade at the top of Westchester Avenue. The Utica resident was visiting her cousin Stephanie Gerardi (right), a Monroe Place resident.
Marching with the Port Chester High School cheerleaders, sophomore Siena Russo waves her pom-pom at parade watchers sitting on the street curbs.
The Tappan Zee Bridgemen band do a little dance as they strut down Westchester Avenue.
Right after passing the Westchester Avenue and Regent Street intersection, a dozen Port Chester High School athletes jump on a car representing the JV and Varsity boys’ soccer teams.
Literally cute as a bug, 3-year-old Shanne Urrutia is the first in line of several other appropriately dressed toddlers from Port Chester’s Ladybug Family Daycare making their way down the road.
All proudly sporting their green school shirts, Edison Elementary School students walk in the procession together while holding up their school’s banner.
Dozens of students of all ages march down the street together while representing John F. Kennedy Elementary School.
