From Starr to Santa, We've Loved a Parade
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Product: OSBS PubDate: 12-23-2007 Zone: EST Edition: OR Page: ORSUFRT User: apinkston Time: 12-21-2007 13:43 Color: CMYK Inside: Book offers philosophy and side of laughs, J2 E SUNDAY ORANGE SECTION J SUNDAY Blog Former Knight, now Bronco in news DECEMBER 23, 2007 Extra One-time UCF great and current Bronco player Brandon Marshall gets attention at ESPN. OrlandoSentinel.com/ucfarea This Just In 1930s ‘Champs’ Ballot lawsuit needs spot on bands to judge’s docket fill streets Tim Adams, who has sued Orlando in an attempt to get his name on the ballot for the Jan. 29 Thursday mayor’s race, could be running out of time. By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN There still hasn’t been a hear- SENTINEL STAFF WRITER ing in his case, and one scheduled for Friday was canceled. One Two clowns or a pair of floats problem is that Adams seems to might have trouble calling them- know several judges, who have selves a “parade,” but when two recused themselves as a result. university marching bands with a The game of musical judges has combined 600 students march now settled on Circuit Judge through downtown Winter Park on John Adams (no relation), but it Thursday, there will be no doubt. hasn’t been easy to find space on Michigan State University’s Adams’ calendar. Spartans and Boston College’s Tim Adams accuses Mayor Screaming Eagles will thunder Buddy Dyer’s administration of down Park Avenue the day before dirty politics in denying him the their respective football teams face right to have his name on the off in Orlando’s Champs Sports ballot. The city clerk and the city Bowl, at the Citrus Bowl in Or- attorney are both Dyer appoint- lando. ees, he points out. The idea for the parade — the City officials have repeatedly first Champs Sports Bowl Parade pointed out that Adams was un- ORLANDO SENTINEL FILE of Bands — came a year ago from able to supply records that prove Winter Park resident Marc Hagle. he’s been a resident and regis- In the early days of Orlando Christmas parades (above), Hagle approached the city about tered voter of the city of Orlando 1950s & ’60s Santa appears on a brick-paved Orange Avenue pulled by bringing marching bands to Winter for at least a year, as required by what appear to be real reindeer. The equestrian style of Park after his alma mater Purdue the city charter. Sheriff Dave Starr (left, in 1971) and his Western garb also University played in last year’s dazzled young parade-goers in the 1950s and ’60s. Another Champs Sports Bowl. Buddy the bell-ringer crowd favorite in those days was the Jones High School Hagle had played in Purdue’s If the guy ringing the Salvation band, which also marched in this year’s parade (below). band as a student and thought Win- Army bell in front of Wal-Mart a ter Park should invite the univer- few days ago looked familiar, sity bands to play while they were there might be a good reason. in town for the bowl game, said It could have been Orlando Winter Park’s parks and recreation Mayor Buddy Dyer. director John Holland. Hagle could Dyer was a special guest bell- not be reached for comment. ringer for the Salvation Army’s The city extended the invitation “Red Kettle” drive at a Wal-Mart to Florida Citrus Sports, which or- on South Semoran on Thursday. ganizes the Champs Sports Bowl, Dyer was promoting the deci- and it was pleased to offer another sion by Salvation Army and Wal- venue for the bands to perform Mart to extend the holiday giving during their stay, Holland said. campaign in front of the com- 2007 Thursday at 2 p.m., the bands pany’s stores. will move north up Park Avenue Bell-ringers began collecting ORLANDO SENTINEL FILE RICARDO RAMÍREZ BUXEDA/ORLANDO SENTINEL from Comstock Avenue, then enter donations the day after Thanks- Central Park at the north end. Both giving and will continue through bands will give short performances Christmas Eve. in the park. Michigan State marching band Join Ocoee MLK parade director John Madden said the Anyone interested in partici- From Starr to Santa, Spartans will be a sight moving pating in Ocoee’s 2nd Annual Dr. down the street to their intricately Martin Luther King Jr. Unity choreographed “street beat.” Parade can find registration and “Performing is what we’re there sponsorship forms at the city’s for,” Madden said. “A parade is Web site at ci.ocoee.fl.us or at City right up our alley.” Hall at 150 N. Lakeshore Drive. we’ve loved a parade Madden has never been to Win- The forms must be turned in to ter Park, but said “we look forward or faxed at 407-905-3116 to City to making a big impact.” Hall by Jan. 4. The parade is Jan. Santa Claus marching down the FLORIDA counts, in earlier days of Orlando’s The last time Michigan State’s 21. For more information call street in all his regal splendor . Christmas parade, you couldn’t beat marching band performed in Or- Dorcas Dillardat 407-694-2057. will take our thoughts off depres- FLASHBACK Santa for star power. lando was the 2000 Citrus Bowl. sion in its real and its imagined In 1932, the boys and girls didn’t Great guy, but . aspects. JOY WALLACE DICKINSON just sit and watch. Instead of waiting Christopher Sherman can be reached at More than a dozen campaign for Santa, they went to him. [email protected] or — ORLANDO EVENING REPORTER-STAR 407-650-6361. volunteers for U.S. Sen. Barack EDITORIAL, 1932 Cowboys were big then, on the Obama filled the seats at Eaton- radio (“Hi ho, Silver, away!”) and at Blues-busting Claus ville’s usually sparsely attended the movies, and every year Starr and The drama began to unfold short- PARADE OF BANDS riving home last weekend, town-council meeting last week his Stetson-wearing deputies ly after Thanksgiving. The inaugural Champs Sports Bowl I spied Santa himself, to ask for the town’s endorse- wowed the elementary-school set as Santa would appear in Orlando, Parade of Bands will begin at 2 p.m. waiting on Robinson ment. they rambled by on horseback. an editorial announced, to help folks Thursday in Winter Park. The Street to roll out and take Led by David Rucker, a volun- D When the Jones band passed, the forget their troubles — to “take our marching bands of Michigan State his place in the Orlando Christmas teer for the Democratic presi- drum major’s gravity-defying strut thoughts off depression.” University and Boston College will Parade. dential candidate and former cut a swath of magic down Orange In the ’30s, that meant much more march along Park Avenue and play I wouldn’t want to tell him that my president of the Orange County Avenue. than a case of holiday blues. It meant short sets in Central Park. childhood parade memories of him branch of the NAACP, the group But that was the era of early Elvis the Great Depression, the hard times P = Parking are a bit dim, at least compared with made the pitch that the country’s and the Beatles, of “I Like Ike” and of scarce jobs when “Brother, can those of Sheriff Dave Starr and the Canton Ave. Camelot. Jones High Band. Park Ave. Continued on J4 Judging from newspaper ac- PLEASE SEE FLASHBACK, J3 P Knowles Ave. Center St. Garfield Ave. Finish Lincoln Ave. Central Park Bullet stops sports career, but student presses ahead P North Morse Blvd. By ANDREA STANLEY and West Colonial Drive. SPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL “It was shocking. At first I didn’t P even know I got shot until someone Welbourne Ave. At 6-foot-1, lean and long-armed, told me. Then I felt my chest and saw Central P high school senior C.J. Bellamy has blood,” he said. Park P the build of an up-and-coming basket- He was taken to the hospital that South ball star. night, and for nearly two months he New England Ave. He has the determination of one, struggled with the results of that gun- P too. shot. “My dream since I was, like, 4 was He fought off pneumonia because Lyman Ave. to play basketball; I started early,” he of a collapsed lung, went through gru- P said. eling physical therapy in hopes of City But that dream may not come true walking again, and battled the Hall P — C.J. can no longer walk. thought of losing a dream to make it Comstock Ave. After leaving his house on Christ- big in the NBA. Start mas night a year ago, C.J., now 18, While in the hospital, C.J. received a JACOB LANGSTON/ORLANDO SENTINEL was the victim of a random drive-by letter inviting him to the University of C.J. Bellamy sits in his wheelchair in front of his Orlando home, a shooting while at a gas station with Fairbanks Ave. year after being shot and left paralyzed from the waist down. his friends at John Young Parkway PLEASE SEE SHOOTING, J4 Rollins College SOURCE: City of Winter Park ORLANDO SENTINEL COLORSTRIP: Product: OSBS PubDate: 12-23-2007 Zone: EST Edition: OR Page: SCHOOL User: apinkston Time: 12-21-2007 13:29 Color: CMYK J4 Orlando Sentinel E SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2007 FOCUS ON EDUCATION Schools ❘ In Brief Orange names 5 finalists which they can keep in their The Regional Sunshine State homes for three years.