Asbury Park holds 81st Annual Easter Pageant Parade
Best dressed prizes given from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday on AP boardwalk
The most creative and fashionable will vie for top honors Sunday at the city’s 81st Annual Easter Pageant Parade.
“It’s an important community event, and not just for Asbury residents,” pageant Co-Director Cassandra Dickerson said in a written news release. “We attract people from as far as Red Bank, Long Branch, Tinton Falls, Freehold, Neptune and Point Pleasant – it’s a family-friendly event, and that’s why people from all over attend.”
Dickerson, the city’s Director of Community Development and Director of Recreation Leesha Floyd have run the parade and pageant for the last two years, taking over for longtime coordinator Dina Todd.
The event is a celebration of colorful outfits, bright bonnets, sharp suits, and big smiles, organizers said.
The pageant is held from 1 to 3 p.m. on Easter Sunday, with a boardwalk procession in front of the historic Convention Hall.
Participants will be judged in categories for Best Dressed Man, Woman, Boy, Girl, Family, and for Most Unusual Bonnet.
Prizes include trophies, Easter baskets, first, second, and third place awards and gift certificates.
“On a nice day we’ll get approximately 400 people and most of them are just spectators; they’re not in the parade or pageant itself,” Dickerson said. “They just know it’s going to happen, and they love it. They want to come out to support it.”
Judges, this year, include Deputy Mayor Amy Quinn, Councilman Jesse Kendle, Madison Marquette’s Carrie Turner and Jessie Ricks of the Asbury Park Board of Education.
For more information, call 732-502-5755.
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