Norwood Young America is home to Stiftungsfest, Minnesota’s oldest annually held celebration. This year will be the 150^th annual celebration. One of the highlighted features of this year’s celebration will be a grand day parade on Sunday August 28^th  at 12:30 PM. Stiftungsfest hosts a parade just once every five years. This year we are trying to make it the best parade ever.

We pride ourselves on the units that we allow in our parade. We do not allow any units in for the sole purpose of advertising. All units must be of entertainment value. We are looking for marching bands, musical floats, clowns, horse drawn units, antique vehicles, and anything else that might be unique and of entertainment value.
     If you have or know of any unit that you would like to sponsor in our parade let us know as soon as possible. We are limiting the parade to 125 units. We realize that not everyone has the time and or resources to enter a unit, but would still like to be apart of the parade. If you are one of these we will do the work for you. We have sent out invites to over ninety different high school and college bands, musical units, clown clubs, and other units of interest. How many respond back with interest in our parade we don’t know yet. Of those that respond back how many we can afford to invite to participate depends on businesses such as yours.

We hope you will consider being apart of this year’s parade. If you have any questions you can phone the Stiftungsfest number and leave a message. Someone will get back to you, or you can email me direct at  parade @ stiftungsfest.org

       Thank You,

Stiftungsfest parade committee.
Jack Lano  pres..

Parade Self Entry

Parade Sponsor Form