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DOWNTOWN BILLINGS HOLIDAY PARADE CANCELED
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Is cancelation fatigue setting in? Yes, yes it is. It seems like I’ve written, “in a year full of cancellations” about a hundred times this year. Here comes another one. The Downtown Billings Alliance announced today in a press release that the Holiday Parade has been cancelled for 2020 due to COVID-19. Damn you COVID. You took our concerts, monster trucks, family reunions, 4th of July celebrations, Strawberry Festival, downtown Farmers’ Market, Alive After 5’s and now you’re trying to squash Christmas.
We are disappointed to have to cancel the holiday parade, we knew it was a possibility. As a team we brainstormed extensively on how to bring the parade safely to our community, but in the end we fully support the County Health Office’s efforts to try to flatten and slow our County’s COVID-19 numbers. We share their concern, and we are very committed to not hosting large, crowd drawing events that could put our small business community and healthcare providers at higher risk.
As COVID-19 numbers, deaths and nearly full ICU rooms continue to impact Yellowstone County, please do your part to help curb the spread of the virus. The sooner we can get a grip on the pandemic, the sooner we can get back to normal.
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