THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, December 8, 1995 TAG: 9512060167
SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS PAGE: 06 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Short : 35 lines
Award-winners in the Portsmouth Christmas Parade have been announced in band, lights, vocal, float and spirit categories.
Band winners included Park View Elementary's marching band, which took top honors; Christian Antioch's drum and flag corps, second place; and the John Yeates Middle School Supersonics, third.
High school marching bands were judged in a separate competition. I.C. Norcom High School placed first, followed by Sussex Central and Churchland.
The Coast Guard Auxiliary won the lights competition, and the Portsmouth Police Department came in second.
In vocals, Hearts On Fire placed first; Highland-Biltmore Elementary, second; and Hunt-Mapp Middle School, third.
In the float competition, the city of Norfolk's ``Streets, Bridges and Drain Division'' placed first; Bell Atlantic came in second; and the Portsmouth Naval Medical Center took third.
The Youth Against Drugs Spartan Dogs was tops in the spirit competition, and Norfolk's Public Works Nasty Boys placed second. Charisse Spencer's African dancers came in third. ILLUSTRATION: Photo by GARY C. KNAPP
Roderick Parham, of the second-place Sussex Central High School
Band, plays drums in the Portsmouth Christmas Parade.
by CNB