the fourth of july fourth of july parade live for the first time we have a lot of very interesting floats and the cars and horses and people with bagpipes coming our way and we hope that you really enjoy everything that we've got in store for you some shots of what was going on this morning as a but he was getting ready for the free are getting their prime spots a lot of people putting the last minute touches outside of their homes richmond is definitely coming out with this bright red white and blue colors isn't everything starts out harrington's in the parking lot behind their plant and twenty four years ago a fellow went to the farm on and asked if they'd like a committee to help make the parade bigger and that's what we started a new one and people kept asking why can't we have fireworks for a couple years down the road we decided to try to raise the money for fireworks and that's when we started selling all fell for the park this is a very special year for the birds of vermont you see and we're celebrating our twenty fifth year here in huntington and bob spear is the mastermind visionary and master carver behind what we now have twenty five hundred one life size wooden carvings of all the birds that would be seen in vermont including migratory species and nesting birds he is going to be riding in the truck and waving to all the crowd we have here i'm brenda philips i am the president of the f d a which is a smiley company so she smiling memorial school we chose to do the summer olympics we chose this because each of the kids play different sports that are included in the summer olympics weather's looks great so we're looking forward to a good time i'm jim cochran we are the cochran the club out here we have a whole gaggle of little kids they're going to be olympic athletes today are american american fray and we wanted to ask how did you what do you think of the richmond prayed so hard of course he's got his grandson on his back well you know for much smaller places there really are a lot of out of town in richmond for so many people and it's we're starting  attended every year for a long time what you to say about it it's always fabulous it's always wonderful to see all the local people and people from surrounding communities come out and i think it's a great example of the community  here and it always makes me emotional having a father that was in world war two with many friends and acquaintances that have been in various wars and have a sense that every time i see the military i get all choked up and i'm just support of everybody that's out there it's wonderful and a chance to see all those neighbors that maybe you don't catch up with during the year why that's for sure you know not everybody everybody has a very busy life not everybody gets a chance to come into the store and  role and i really enjoy the full happy fourth of july and we're going to continue with our coverage of the richmond fourth of july parade tools to make their own shows and we offer free training and free once you're trained on them for both of them for editing and putting together your whole package and want to learn more about it so we're willing to help you were non profit and we were willing to help you get the skills to make the show that you envision or to help out on some of the things we're already doing welcome back to our broadcast of richmond's fourth of july parade two thousand and twelve and we've got marshall paulson the tallest man in the parade who says be counted on every year to stride down richmond streets all the way to the bridge we're in downtown richmond broadcasting live the fourth of july parade two thousand and twelve and can you say a few words about yourself in why you all came out for the free we all came out for the parade this year i think because we like to support richmond july parade as always it was colorful and memorable and we hope you'll keep watching throughout the year we have a lot of other live an interesting broadcast coming your way so keep watching on mount mansfield community television