Seasonal blessings
The Annual Light Parade
The 2004 Parade Float theme expressed Care & Share's reliance upon, and gratitude for, the town's businesses and citizens.
Debut Year for Care & Share Float - 2000
First Float -- Christmas Carol -- 2000
First Float -- Christmas Carol -- 2000
First Float -- Christmas Carol -- 2000
Lauren Schunemann, 14, practices flying skills in cabled harness before parade, portraying Ghost of Christmas Past on Second Place Award-winning float.
Our 2004 Award
First Float -- Christmas Carol -- 2000
First Float -- Christmas Carol -- 2000
Care & Share also awarded for its enthusiastic design
four years later.
Celebrating another year
For the young and the young at heart
The East Lyme Community celebrates the end-of-the-year holidays with its Annual Light Parade.
Visitors and townspeople alike bundle against the cold, shelter from the rain, or revel in unseasonal balmy evenings, as they stand street-side or sit in their place-holding chairs arranged since early morning,
Care & Share has eagerly taken part to ensure the community knows of its mission and to thank everyone for their support -- initially concentrated around the winter and spring holiday seasons. Each year's theme reflects a moment in C&S growth. Float-building always provides many moments of camaraderie among volunteers and creates cherished memories.
Care & Share entered its first float in 2000 (the year of SignCraft's ground-breaking helicopter) and won a second place award for its category.
Care & Share often turns to SignCraft for Program Signs
Click below and read more about the Wilsons and Sign Craft on our Fundraising Narrative page.
Friends of Care & Share Through the Years
The Wilson family from SignCraft have supported Care & Share the second Light Parade (1989). Here in front of their float themed on a Christmas carousel. John and Julia and their twins Jennifer and Jessica and younger daughter, Jill.
John Wilson performed as his alter-persona, DJ Jammin Johnny, at the first Light Parade in 1988, walking down Main Street as a musical Christmas Tree with evergreen branches duct taped to his body.
Niantic's own DJ Johnny serenades his wife and parade goers with Christmas music while paddling their rowbaot Homeward Bound, heading to the Naintic Light.
Contact SignCraft for more information:
website - signcraftsigns.com
facebook - facebook.com/signcraftniantic
Another year the SignCraft crew designed and built a Statue of Liberty float for the Light Parade.
