Get Healthy De Soto

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Cycle Parade

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The De Soto Chamber of Commerce and Get Healthy DeSoto welcome you to celebrate fall with us during the Fall Festival. Decorate your bike with a St. Louis Blues theme and pedal your way down Main Street! The event is FREE, and you’ll get a chance to win a prize for the best decorated bike. New this year: a prize for the adult with the best decorated bike!

The event will begin and end at the DeSoto Farmers’ Market on Saturday, September 21st. Children and youth can be fitted for a free helmet beginning at 8 AM at the market. Registration for the parade will begin around 9:30, with a safety clinic at 9:45. The parade will commence after the safety clinic, and participants will ride south on Main Street to roughly Clement Street before turning around and heading back. All ages are invited to participate, and all non-motorized vehicles are welcome too: wheelbarrows, bikes, strider bikes, etc.

You can complete the form and bring it with you to expedite registration.

Registration Form

2018 Cycle Parade

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New for 2018, we’ve partnered with the DeSoto Chamber of Commerce to bring you a Cycle Parade during the Fall Festival on September 22, 2018. Kids of all ages are invited to decorate their non-motorized vehicles with a fall theme, and meet at the farmers’ market to register for the event.

The registration form can be accessed here.

Timeline:

  • 8-9:30 AM – The Jefferson County Health Department will be fitting kids for FREE bike helmets. Helmets available fit most kids from ages 2-14, depending on the size of the child. Fittings take some time, so please come early to avoid the rush.
  • 10 AM – Registration for the parade begins!
  • 10:20 AM – There will be a short safety clinic, so everyone gets tips about cycle safety and is safe during the parade.
  • 10:40 AM – The parade begins. Participants will walk through the market to Main Street. The parade route will go from the market south on Main Street to Clement. UPDATE: For safety reasons, we will turn around at the south end of the route and ride back to the market. Judging will be at the beginning of the parade. The participant with the Best Fall Bling will win a prize. The first 100 participants to register will receive a button.

Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for this event: Kidz Biz Pediatrics, The Lowry Law Firm, Hopson Lumber Co., and DeSoto Supercenter.