Participant's Handbook

Hello dear participant

Thank you for joining our team to help create a few magical moments for everyone. We hope your experience will be rewarding and that you will want to do it again next year.

The organizing committee will:

• Give out, in time, all pertinent information to the group leader using e-mail, web site and during the November 24 th meeting ( 7 pm place des Pionniers, 5 th floor)
• Secure the starting site access, parade route and arrival area by using barricades, security volunteers and policemen.
• Limit vehicles access to all sites
• Clearly identify it’s volunteers
• Offer a snack at the end of the parade.

In exchange

The group leader is the contact person for the committee. He must:

• Register the float using the form posted on www.paradehohoho.com adding as much descriptive information as possible
• Inform the participant’s co-ordinator of any change
• Distribute to its members the information received from the co-ordinator (by using e-mail, telephone chain or any other proper way)
• Attend the pre-parade meeting on November 24 th (7pm Place des Pionniers, 5 th floor)
• Make sure that the group presentation is properly clean, properly decorated and in working order
• Make sure the group is ready on time to join the parade. This includes identifying the group or float parading ahead of them prior to the start signal
• Make sure the group has a responsible person on the site (specially if there are children to watch and along the route)
• Go to the big tent for his snack
• Stay in the tent for the ceremonial presentation of the winners.

The participants on a float or in a group must

• Dress according to the weather at the time of the parade
• Use the shuttle bus behind the Galeries Aylmer to get to the starting point
• Obey requests from the group leader and/or parade officials
• Not throw anything in the crowd (candies must be handed out)
• Invite the spectators to have fun by smiling, saluting, singing etc

The participant is also invited to share a snack in the big tent after the parade and to stay for the ceremonial presentation of winners.