Photo courtesy of Downtown Lexington Partnership.
The Downtown Lexington Partnership (DLP) annual Christmas parade will be held on Main Street at 11 a.m. on Dec. 3.
“We are so excited to enjoy a crisp morning downtown for this family-friendly opportunity to get Lexington into the holiday spirit,” said Laura Farnsworth, interim executive director of DLP. “The DLP and the University of Kentucky integrated strategic communication (ISC) students can’t wait to show everyone how hard we have been working the past four months.”
Students in the ISC event planning class have been working hand in hand with DLP for the past four months to plan and organize efforts to make this year's parade the best it can be.
Groups participating in the event include:
- 2 Feathers Horses
- Ale-8-One Bottling Company
- Alpha Phi
- American Red Cross Bluegrass Chapter
- American Ideal Miss Kentucky
- America's Majestic Miss National Teen
- Bluegrass Corvette Club
- Bluegrass Crime Stoppers
- Bluegrass Mustang Club
- Bourbon County High School Marching Band
- Chief Weathers with D.A.R.E. police car
- Dance Blue
- Denali Towing
- Eastside Technical Center (FCPS)
- Fayette County Education Association
- Fayette EF Girl Scouts
- Fox 56
- Frederick Douglass High School Dance Team
- Girl Scouts of Kentucky, Troop 8003
- Henry Clay High School Dance Team
- Kentucky Horse Park Police
- Kentucky Utilities
- Kentucky's Miss Pageant Queens
- KY Tenants
- kynect
- Lafayette High School Marching Band
- LEX18
- Lexington Catholic High School Dance Team
- Lexington LGBTQIA+ Community
- Lexington Lightening Cheer
- Lexington Mounted Police
- Lexington Ravens
- Lexington Rotary Club Endowment, Inc.
- Lexington Tap & Jazz Company
- Lextran
- Limelight Dance Company
- Love on a Leash Central Kentucky
- March Madness Marching Band
- Marine Solutions, Inc.
- Mayor Linda Gorton
- Metro Towing, LLC
- Military Freedom Float
- Miss Kentucky Bluegrass Queens
- Morning Pointe Seniors Got Talent
- Mrs. Claus
- NECCO Lexington
- Oleika Shriners
- Raising Cane's
- RATP Dev USA, LLC
- Ralph Colidiron with special guest Santa
- Sponsor/Shop & Celebrate Banners
- University of Kentucky Student Philanthropy Board
- Summit Fast Pitch Softball Tarheels
- Tates Creek Paving, LLC
- The Bair Foundation
- The Kidz Club
- The Lantern @ Morning Pointe Senior Living
- Thursday's Child Organization
- Ugly Sweater Contest winner
- UK 4 Paws for Ability
- Unique Stars Dance Team
- UK Rodeo Team
- Wild Health
- WKYT
About DLP
The Downtown Lexington Partnership (DLP) is the non-profit Downtown organization formed in 2017 to provide a single point of contact and accountability and a coordinated approach to downtown revitalization and management. DLP encourages responsible economic development, produces events, addresses issues on behalf of stakeholders and promotes downtown Lexington. DLP has over 175 members and produces many events for the public including Central Bank Thursday Night Live, The Rink at Triangle Park and more.
The University of Kentucky is increasingly the first choice for students, faculty and staff to pursue their passions and their professional goals. In the last two years, Forbes has named UK among the best employers for diversity, and INSIGHT into Diversity recognized us as a Diversity Champion four years running. UK is ranked among the top 30 campuses in the nation for LGBTQ* inclusion and safety. UK has been judged a “Great College to Work for" three years in a row, and UK is among only 22 universities in the country on Forbes' list of "America's Best Employers." We are ranked among the top 10 percent of public institutions for research expenditures — a tangible symbol of our breadth and depth as a university focused on discovery that changes lives and communities. And our patients know and appreciate the fact that UK HealthCare has been named the state’s top hospital for five straight years. Accolades and honors are great. But they are more important for what they represent: the idea that creating a community of belonging and commitment to excellence is how we honor our mission to be not simply the University of Kentucky, but the University for Kentucky.