The Catskill Chronicle

The Catskill Chronicle received this invitation from Roscoe – Come celebrate our nation’s Independence as well as the crowning of Roscoe, NY as The Ultimate Fishing Town USA !!!

ROSCOE, NY – THE ULTIMATE FISHING TOWN USA (June 23, 2011) – This year, as we celebrate our nation’s independence at our Independence Day Parade, Saturday, July 2nd, we will also be celebrating our recent winning of the prestigious title, THE ULTIMATE FISHING TOWN – USA.

We want to make this a really big celebration, reflective of all the effort that went into achieving this accomplishment and all the spirit and pride it invoked in Roscoe and our surrounding communities.

We invite each of you, organization or individual, to join us … whether with a float, special car, tractor, stroller, walking, etc. Some folks have already started thinking about and working on their entries, and we encourage all of you to do so. It doesn’t need to be anything fancy – just the joy of seeing a lot of people here to share our success will be a celebration of its own. The more the merrier – please spread the word!

Betty Grossman will take care of organizing our parade, as she always does so well. The parade will start at 11:00 a.m. Due to the increased number of participants, we are asking folks who will be in the parade to start lining up at 10:00 a.m. at the Roscoe Central School parking lot. Please plan on getting there in a timely manner – that would be a big help.

If you can let us know ahead of time that you are planning to be in the parade that would be great, but if you don’t know until the last minute, please still come!

To pre-register, send an email to Betty at akamom@citlink.net, with a copy to elainemfettig@aol.com, or call Betty directly at 607 498-5794.

There are a lot of special fun things being planned. We are hoping to have our government dignitaries join us to share their congratulations.

Thunder 102.1 will be broadcasting from our parade location. And we expect Sullivan County’s own "Larry the Llama" to be parading with us as well.

The Roscoe Chamber will be selling commemorative T-shirts, as well as unique holiday ornaments with hand-tied flies from Manny Zanger, a local environmentalist.

And. that’s just in the first two days of our planning! We expect that the event will get just bigger and better as we hear from many of you!

But, most important is having each of you who helped and voted in this contest attend. Please plan on joining us, and letting others know.

This day and celebration belongs to each and every person who supported Roscoe! If you have any questions, please call Elaine Fettig at 845-439-4039.