By JOYANNA LOVE/ Senior Staff Writer

The Chilton County Lions Club is accepting participants for this year’s Peach Parade.

The parade will be held on June 24 at 9 a.m. as a part of the annual Peach Festival.

Entry forms must be postmarked by June 15 to be considered. Alternatively, forms can be dropped off at Mail Specialist Printing in the Fred’s Shopping Center in Clanton by June 15.

An entry form is required to participate.

Entry forms are available at Peoples Southern bank in Clanton and Jemison, City Hall in Clanton, Jemison and Thorsby. Maplesville Town Hall and The Clanton Advertiser.

Entrants will be contacted by Peach parade chair Kevin Mazingo who will assign numbers and give information about where to line up. floats will begin lining up at 8 a.m.

Mazingo said his favorite part of the parade is ” getting a chance to meet all of the different entrants, the personal interaction.

“I enjoy seeing the community come together and filling the streets to show support of our new Peach Queens. Everyone loves to see what their floats look like and plus they love to get the peach candy that is thrown by the Queens and their courts!” Lions Club member Cindy Mazingo said.

According to the parade rules, “All entries should have some type of peach theme decoration to correspond with the peach festival activities. Emergency Vehicles are exempt from this … Each entry should be checked in and ready to roll by 8:50 a.m. Late arrivals may be bumped even if you have a number. Upon arriving at lineup area, entries should check in with parade officials. All entries other than School Marching Bands are required to be on a float or some type of moving vehicle.”

For more information contact Kevin Mazingo at 205-417-5097 or Tommy Patterson at 205-299-0236.