{"id":71784,"date":"2017-03-06T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T00:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/27th-annual-parade-of-lights-hits-cortez-saturday\/"},"modified":"2017-03-07T00:30:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T00:30:16","slug":"27th-annual-parade-of-lights-hits-cortez-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/27th-annual-parade-of-lights-hits-cortez-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"27th annual Parade of Lights hits Cortez Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=286b75df-a2b9-4c07-a3e2-5748d26f6175&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1695\" alt=\"Fire and ice fill the air as the Chrome Mafia float passes by the judges in the 2013 Parade of Lights.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Fire and ice fill the air as the Chrome Mafia float passes by the judges in the 2013 Parade of Lights.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Four Corners Board of Realtors is gearing up for the 27th annual Parade of Lights on Main Street, Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>Skies should be clear Saturday night in Cortez, according to the National Weather Service, but spectators should plan to wear plenty of layers, since temperatures could drop to around 20 degrees at parade time. Last year, hundreds attended what parade organizer Terry McCabe called \u201cthe best parade ever,\u201d despite temperatures in the mid-30s. She\u2019s hoping for a similar turnout this year.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday, about 50 organizations had signed up to participate in the parade, and McCabe said she expects some last-minute registrations. Several businesses and organizations from last year will be returning, and McCabe said \u201cthere are always new ones.\u201d Last year, about 70 organizations were featured in the parade.<\/p>\n<p>The parade will begin at 6 p.m. Saturday on Main Street. Parade floats will be judged based on traits like creativity, workmanship and adherence to the theme, which this year is \u201cPreserving Treasured Memories of Christmas Past.\u201d Local historical group The \u201940s Bunch will lead the parade as grand marshal.<\/p>\n<p>Judges will be watching from the intersection of Market and Main streets as the floats go by. First-, second- and third-place winners will receive cash prizes in the nonprofit, commercial and miscellaneous categories. Last year\u2019s first-place winners were the Montezuma County Fair Board, Diesel Technology and the Four Corners Roller Derby team.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Parade of Lights, call 970-565-8408 or email McCabe at <a href=\"mailto:terrymc@move2swcolo.com\">terrymc@move2swcolo.com<\/a>. Winning floats will be announced shortly after the end of the parade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/dur-cjweb.newscyclecloud.com\/assets\/pdf\/CJ3354021019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Parade of Lights entry form (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather\u2019s frightful, but show\u2019s delightful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[755,21,13,598],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-71784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-christmas","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-public-holiday"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71784","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=71784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71784"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=71784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}