The parade spanned nearly an hour and 45 minutes and was kicked off by the Mancos Fire Department, which sprayed the crowd as its trucks roared down the parade route.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you don\u2019t want to get wet, too bad!\u201d said the parade emcee over a megaphone, as children and adults scrambled for cover or ran into the water to cool off.<\/p>\n
Dozens of local businesses, nonprofits and charity organizations including Escalante Shrine, Clampers, San Juan Bible Camp, Hospice of Montezuma County, Chavalo\u2019s Mexican Restaurant and the Mancos Class of 1975 dazzled the crowd with their custom floats \u2013 all seeking to capture this year\u2019s \u201cOnly in Mancos\u201d theme.<\/p>\n
Mancos Days Pioneer Queen Ellen Paquin and her family, were pulled in a horse drawn carriage through the parade route and she was dropped off at the Pavilion in Boyle Park for the annual Queen\u2019s Lunch.<\/p>\n
Paquin, a second-generation Pioneer Queen, wore her mother\u2019s dress to the festivities on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe parade was great,\u201d said Cy Riffle of Summit Ridge. \u201cWe\u2019ve came out the last five or six years. The kids love the firetrucks. We brought our newborn, Memphis. It\u2019s his first Mancos Days.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the parade, the crowd shifted down to Boyle Park for games and the second day of softball tournaments.<\/p>\n
Several hundred children signed up for the annual duck races put on by the Mancos Valley Lions Club, as dozens of serious softball players waited to battle it out in the popular tournaments.<\/p>\n
\u201cMancos Days is about softball,\u201d said Christina Padilla of Cortez. Padilla and her team competed Friday and won $50.<\/p>\n
Mancos Days, a 56-year running tradition was started out after some of the merchants in town wanted to do something to bring people into town while celebrating Colorado\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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