Leatherman: Pee Dee Patriotic Parade gets $3,000 boost from state

State Sen. Hugh Leatherman’s chief of staff, Robby Dawkins, presented the check at the U.S. Army Reserve Center.

Pee Dee Patriotic Parade gets $3,000 boost from state
Wednesday, Aug 29, 2007 - 04:42 PM
By Charles Tomlinson

Florence’s Pee Dee Patriotic Parade got a $3,000 boost today from the State Budget and Control Board.
State Sen. Hugh Leatherman’s chief of staff, Robby Dawkins, presented the check at the U.S. Army Reserve Center. Leatherman was ill and unable to attend.

The parade, in its sixth year, is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. Sept. 15, and its theme will be “Defending Freedom.”
For more information about the parade, call Veterans Honor Guard director Clifford W. Gade at (843) 673-0788 or Jim Williams, commandant with the Julian D. Dusenbury Detachment No. 410, at (843) 393-0776.

Applications to participate in the parade can also be faxed to Gade’s telephone number.

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