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Downtown Juneau’s Fourth of July parade, consisting of a total of 48 entries, brought patriotic festivity to Egan Drive.

Live music played from the back of The Royal Wedding Band’s float, a local musical group that partnered with the University of Alaska Southeast.

“It has become my favorite gig of the year because you get to see all of your community in a two-hour span,” Taylor Vidic, lead singer of the band, said.

This year’s parade theme was “Juneau’s Winged Heroes,” celebrating aviation. First place for Best Use of Theme went to Juneau Urgent and Family Care.

TIDES LLC celebrated the beginning of Disability Pride country email list Month, in addition to Independence Day. TIDES LLC. provides services to people who experience intellectual and developmental disabilities.

“We are here to just celebrate our neighbors and our communities who experience disabilities and to get all dressed up in the process,” said Nikki Bass, founder and owner of TIDES. Bass was hard to miss on the parade route, wearing a rainbow onesie and long colorful feather earrings.

“We’re just highlighting how important it is to celebrate our diversity,” she said.

The Resistors and Juneau Democracy Now organized a collective of pro-democracy Juneau groups, who marched behind a banner that read “We the People, protecting our democracy.”

“People just got together and then decided that we wanted to be joyful because this is a family parade,” Claire Richardson, organizer of the pro-democracy submission, said.