19th Annual Salem Chamber of Commerce Haunted Happenings Grand Parade – October 2, 2014

The Salem Chamber of Commerce cordially invites you to participate in the 19th Annual Salem Chamber of Commerce Haunted Happenings Grand Parade on Thursday, October 2, 2014. This year’s event will feature the theme “Fantasy”. This time honored kick off of the Halloween season is full of color, pageantry, musi c and the enthusiasm of thousands of Salem’s students from kindergarten to college and our local business owners. Their participation is what makes this a highly successful, cherished event for our community. The choice of costumes for this year’s parade is endless, based on the many fantasy themed movies and books, we’re expecting to see a lot of characters from Frozen, Harry Potter, Narnia, Spiderman as well as Ghostbusters (30 year anniversary and re-release), Avatar and the Hunger Games.

To participate in the parade please click here to fill out the entry form.

Turbo, Kruger and Thor To Lead Salem’s Haunted Happenings Grand Parade!

Salem, MA, September 25, 2012– Next Thursday October 4th, the Salem Chamber of Commerce will host the 17th Annual Haunted Happenings Grand Parade. This year’s theme will be “World Animal Day” a holiday that has been celebrated since 1931 and is recognized worldwide. World Animal Day is celebrated through fundraising events, volunteering at animal shelters, and special school projects just to name a few.

This year the Salem Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce some special Grand Marshals for their upcoming Haunted Happenings Grand Parade, the new Salem K-9 Unit. Salem’s Project K-9 has successfully raised enough money to bring three German Shepard Police K-9’s to the Salem Police Department. The local community enthusiastically raised money for Project K-9 through raffles, a Dunk-A-Cop at the Chamber’s Essex Street Fair in August and other fund raising efforts. The K-9s Turbo, Kruger, and Thor will join Mayor Driscoll and other dignitaries to lead the parade and help celebrate World Animal Day.

The parade will start at 6:30pm from Shetland Properties on Congress Street and turns left onto Derby Street, right onto Central Street, left onto Front Street, right onto Washington Street, right onto the Essex Street Pedestrian Mall and finishes at the Salem Common where there will be a party with DJ Doug to entertain the crowd. For more information about the parade, please visit www.salem-chamber.org.

Salem Chamber Haunted Happenings Parade celebrates “World Animal Day”

Salem Chamber Haunted Happenings Parade celebrates “World Animal Day”!

• Have you registered your float / school / marching band yet?
• Do you want to volunteer (looking for approximately 25 volunteers to help with line-up; all volunteers will march in the Parade!)
• Can you sponsor the parade to help defray the cost for police / entertainment?

“World Animal Day” is the theme for the 17th Annual Salem Chamber of Commerce Haunted Happenings Grand Parade on Thursday, October 4th, 2012.

It is a night-time tradition that brings out the entire city and people from all of the surrounding cities and towns to kick off the Halloween season. It is filled with color, pageantry, music and the enthusiasm of thousands of Salem’s students from kindergarten to college age and local business owners. If your business or school would like to participate in the parade please fill out the form and return it to the Salem Chamber of Commerce. (Please note the parade route is detailed in the forms below):

Business Form: Click here.
School Form: Click here.

World Animal Day is celebrated each year on October the 4th. It started in Florence, Italy in 1931 at a convention of ecologists. On this day, animal life in all its forms is celebrated, and special events are planned on locations all over the globe. The 4th of October was originally chosen for World Animal Day because it is the feast day of Francis of Assisi, a nature lover and patron saint of animals and the environment. However, World Animal Day has now gone beyond being the celebration of a Christian saint and is today observed by animal-lovers of all beliefs, nationalities and backgrounds. Animal rescue shelters hold fundraising events and open days, wildlife groups organize information displays, schools undertake animal-related project work and individuals and groups of friends or co-workers donate to animal charities or pledge to sponsor a shelter animal.

The choice of costumes for this year’s parade is endless, and schools and businesses are encouraged to expand on the theme’s positive message!

To help ensure the success of this event, the Salem Chamber is looking for volunteers and for financial support. Businesses willing to make a contribution to continue the tradition of keeping the parade exciting, family-friendly, and safe can contact the Salem Chamber of Commerce (info@salem-chamber.org / T.978-744-0004). And yes, if your employees want to participate in the Parade, we can always use the volunteers (between 5.30pm-8pm).