hello and welcome to mt mansfield community television there's a lot of excitement in the air because the fun run is about to start with this year's fourth of july parade everyone has been out in the streets for a long time now picking their prime spots and from where i'm standing you can just see people as far as the eye can see and probably all the way down to the bridge any second now you're going to start to see the runners coming down the hill from camel's hump middle school and of course there's always somebody ahead who's the winner who makes it all the way to the bridge in this year's parade the theme is richmond of the future so we're curious to see what people do with the theme this year people are always very creative with the floats that they put on for this big production in town i don't see any runners yet mistral community t v is the public access station for jericho underhill richmond and a few and now we're at thirty five west main street and we welcome everyone to 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the last of the fun runners just scooted on by and we're awaiting of the first few floats to come by and we have with us bart hill who's on richmond select good morning morning and the sun just sort of keeps coming in and out here at least it's not raining with the summer that we've been having so bard you've been living in richmond for a long time now been over twenty years  actually yeah raise both my kids here and they both went through the elementary school camels from middle school and moments feel that over twenty years so what are the special things about this community and the surrounding area because it is richmond but it's also a little bit broader than richford we have from the neighboring towns what's special about this parade for you every year when i really like about the parade is the diversity it really brings out lots of different people from around the community young or old you know sort of everybody from town comes out for this event it's pretty unusual in that regard school kids retired folks sort of everybody and there's a lot going on all around us as we wait for the first float and i see it coming around now and the theme this year is richmond of the future can you say a few words about that female what makes you think of for the future being on the select board which we show on  every week regularly well the big the big news i suppose right now is the work on the town plan the town plan really sets the vision and direction for the future of the town this year i think we've done a really good job of town administrat has done a really good job in gauging citizens they'll actually be a table down at the volunteer green today really trying to engage people in the fish and the future of the town we're kind of  crossroads literally here we are kind of at the edge of the greater burlington region between burlington and month so we sit in kind of an unusual place for our school district being right here on the interstate a pressing issues of the day are really about what does the future of town look like in the town plan development pressures we are really bounded in many ways by the flood plain but the conversations are what we want the downtown and the gateway in particular to look like five ten twenty fifty years from now thanks so much for your insights i think that we're going to have to give way to the bagpipes because i can hear them coming around the corner and when the bagpipes start you can't really get a word in edgewise and we love it every year so things thank you very much hi there we're here at the richmond july fourth two thousand and fifteen we just saw the huntington contingent go by with the huntington fire department and the boy scouts and with us we have a neighbor in long time friend of mt mansfield community t think it's always fun it's a chance for everybody to get together have a little fun see each other and watch a parade which seems to get better every year indeed what is your opinion about the theme of this year's parade last year was rock n roll restaurant soon and it's great to see economically things to be good yeah it's great to see the restaurant opening up soon right next door to you and they are serving creamy city which always is a big boost to the parade in the community always and soon they'll be c every year while i'm making camel and we're representing the shriners international we have twenty two hospitals for children across the united states mexico and canada and we come out just so that everybody can see what's going on in the cochran float so they're thinking richmond of the future going to the site by look and we also had some gun shots you know fake shots for the fourth of july and it was a little exciting and we're glad that we escaped all the water guns till now go i hear the marching band coming next the richmond fourth of july parade in see all the richmond fire trucks going by we just wanted to mention that the whole community of richmond is thinking about tom live back who is the richmond fire chief and he has been serving the community for forty six years and we just wanted to mention that for this parade as it goes by because for a lot of people the richmond fire department is a sentiment synonymous with chief live back and i'm here at the parade today and everybody in richmond would like to say a great big things t well it looks like this is the tail end of another richmond july fourth parade still continuing down the hill from us thank you all for tuning in this been a really lot of fun this year and i think for you watching the video we're going to see all the details you know and the time that he was held on each of those floats and parades where the rich are now the future as a theme this year there was a lot of food for thought i think for everybody in the community as they work on the town plan in the year to come thanks for tuning in  for watching us on m c t v comcast channel fifteen thanks for watching us on our vimeo 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