Downtown Augusta rolls out Christmas Parade

AUGUSTA, Ga (WFXG) – Celebrating the vacation spirit, town of Augusta held it is Christmas parade downtown tonight. A real night of hope and celebrating the vacation season…the parade began at 6 pm and ended at 7pm. 

Individuals lined each side of Broad Road to benefit from the vacation festivities. 

Jasmine Griffin tells us that she wished to see the parade not just for the enjoyable however for her daughter as properly.

“I loved it, all of the dance groups and highschool bands,” stated Jasmine Griffin. 

This yr’s Augusta Christmas parade had greater than eighty members and featured a number of floats, performances, and sweet.

Within the true vacation spirit, the festivities additionally served as a present. The parade’s proceeds and donations go immediately to assist households in want on the Ronald McDonald Home in Augusta. The donations will assist the households keep in the home in the course of the vacation season whereas family members are being handled.

Ronald McDonald Home of Augusta is presently housing 19 households. Households have stayed from 11 days to over a yr. The sufferers go to Augusta’s Kids Hospital and the household is offered three meals a day and lodging for so long as the affected person is receiving remedy.