2017 November PASO Magazine

PASO PEOPLE
filled downtown Paso Robles
with sights and sounds of the
community like only it can.
Staying true the the motto of
“Leave your pocketbook at home,”
Pioneer Day was day of free food
and entertainment all around the
downtown park. For more
information, or to get involved, go to
pasoroblespioneerday.org
Harry Ovitt and I were the announcers
this year at the 14th
and Spring St. station. From
our announcers' table during
the Pioneer Day Parade, and then afterward
in City Park and later at the Pioneer
Museum Campus, we saw plenty of happy
and smiling people taking pictures.
There were great photo-ops and memory
makers that passed us to the delight of the
sidewalk viewers. Here are a few parade
entries that stuck out for me. The brand
new half-million dollar John Deere tractor
is No. 2. The awesome fleet of crawlers,
tractors and dozers is always a tribute to
how the soil was prepared for crops and
roads. The group of JB Dewer sponsored
tractors that have been restored by high
school students warms my sense of saving
history. As the behemoth planting and
harvesting equipment covered the width
of Spring St. we wondered how they were
shipped from their manufacturing sites and
how they got across the river before bridges.
Mules are Harry's favorite country animal
and there must have been three dozen
of them working that day. Vaqueros, dancing
horses, trick ropers and great dress-attire
are a reminder of fun times when the
work was finished. Let's not forget that Pioneer
Day is a day to relive our history and
pass it on to the next generations.
That makes my No. 1 choice for this year
to be all of the represented schools, bands,
youth sports, SkillsUSA, dance studios,
drama classes and FFA that participated
because adults take the time to install the
sense of “Paso's yesterday is preserved for
tomorrow.”
If you have photos that you'd care to
share with the community, please send
them to me at CDESConsult@yahoo.com.
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PASO Magazine, November 2017