{"id":38148,"date":"2022-09-29T19:15:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T01:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/homecoming-parade-floats-down-main-street-cortez\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:42:37","slug":"homecoming-parade-floats-down-main-street-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/homecoming-parade-floats-down-main-street-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Homecoming parade floats down Main Street, Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=bd298652-4b45-5175-9a4f-bea79eb7af1f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"341\" alt=\"Cortez students cheer during the homecoming parade Thursday down Main Street. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cortez students cheer during the homecoming parade Thursday down Main Street. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people lined Main Street Thursday to cheer on the Montezuma-Cortez High School homecoming parade.<\/p>\n<p>The district\u2019s schools were represented, the marching band played, and student groups and athletic teams paraded on creative floats. The theme was \u201cUnder the Glowing Sea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great to see all the support for the kids,\u201d said Re-1 District Superintendent Tom Burris. \u201cIt\u2019s a big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0b586244-64cb-5518-b9fc-4250f32d9809&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"364\" alt=\"The marching band performed during the Homecoming Parade. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The marching band performed during the Homecoming Parade. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5160e811-98d4-5e7f-a0d4-8d5c694955c2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"491\" alt=\"Many Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 sports teams participated in the high school homecoming parade Thursday. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Many Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 sports teams participated in the high school homecoming parade Thursday. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Homecoming is Sept. 30. The MCHS Panthers (4-1) will go up against the Salida Spartans (3-2). Kickoff is 7 p.m. at Panther Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Homecoming royalty will be announced at the game.<\/p>\n<p>Senior royalty candidates are Madi Carver, Emma Olsen and Willa Rice, and Dorrian Hillard, Max Howell and Isaak Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>Royalty for the junior class are India Wright and Miles Frost; for the sophomores Kenzi Whipple and Brady Dale; and for the freshmen Aubrie Matthias and Issac Dozal Escarcega.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M-CHS Panthers play Salida Spartans Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-38148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83933,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38148\/revisions\/83933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38148"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=38148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}