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Posted on 06/01/2026 3:39:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Sunland-Tujunga Fourth of July Parade, the longest-running Independence Day parade in the San Fernando Valley, has been canceled after organizers say the city withdrew support and left them facing at least $20,000 in traffic control and street closure costs.
“The mayor’s office jerked us around for so long,” said Lydia Grant, president of the Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council.
“It’s devastating. We’ve been doing this parade for over 50 years.”
Organizers announced Monday that it was ”with great sadness” that they’ve be unable to host the parade.
The event, hosted annually by the Sunland-Tujunga-Shadow Hills Rotary Club and the Neighborhood Council, is the centerpiece of the community’s Independence Day celebration.
The parade was set to draw marching bands, equestrian groups, vintage cars, local organizations, elected officials and homemade floats.
Grant said she was especially surprised because Mayor Bass told the group her office would help with the event, as the office had done for decades.
“I was very shocked because the mayor herself said to contact her staff to get it done,” Grant said. “Then they started ignoring us. This has never happened before.”
According to Grant, organizers were initially told costs would be around $15,000, but the final estimate exceeded $20,000.
She said the delays left organizers with no realistic opportunity to fundraise or secure sponsors before the July 4 event.
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Pratt could score some big points by having his campaign step up with the funding.
There comes a point where trump just needs to declare martial law and arrest illegitimate politicians like bass
DemocRats do not plan to celebrate the 250th 4th of July, apparently, and do not wish to see anyone else do so.
If the DemoRats celebrate the 4th this year, it will most likely be through riots by their paid proxies.
Shit the roads down anyway.
Have the parade! End of story!
The San Fernando Valley is already voting for Pratt, that is why Bass the Ghana Fleeing Ass is doing this, as payback. Bass only has the support of South Central LA, which most of them could give a rats behind about crime and everything else, they are used to living in misery
A good portion of LA has that covered.
Yes he could!!
I would say take the horses and parade in front of Bass’s mansion. Oh yeah, and shit the roads down real good in front.
I don’t believe the polls. Crap like this and she’s STILL ahead of Spencer Pratt???? Same with that pedophile in Maine. He’s still 7 points ahead of RINO Collins.
I don’t think LA can be saved at this point maybe Superman.
I lived in Tujunga as a tyke in the early 1960’s after we moved there from San Diego when my Dad went up there to work for Lockheed in Burbank. It was a nice, neat little mountain town that had a sizable German immigrant community. They were wonderful people, as I remember, always making a big fuss over me, watchful that neighborhood kids were safe, and always giving us homemade cookies and little sewn and knitted gifts. One of our neighbors had a Mynah bird that could talk really well, and my first crush was a cute little German girl named Annaliese who lived down the street. I lived there for two years, as I recall, until the end of first grade.
Castro Commies gonna do Castro Commie things
It’s more than just the funding. There must be municipal authority and state cooperation to shut down roads and intersections. And, of course, permits, assuming liability, etc.
Spenser Pratt surely can make a dandy pro-America campaign ad.
Word has gone out, hasn’t it.
Karen Bass is literally a communist.
The democrat St Paul, mn mayor did this for several years when he was in office. Never had money for July 4th fireworks but did for several of his friends at six figures salary.
Because celebrating the 250th anniversary of America’s Independence is so... maga. Like, you know, Spencer Pratt. Karen bASS don’t do MAGA!
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