Alisa has her minions perform in a parade, American Mary is coming, ’68 Zombie Wolf Nards and more.
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dEdmontonTV -Bonewagons on Parade, Twisted Twins and Zombies
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The Clyde Haunted House Invades Westlock!
August 23, 2009 By
Last weekend while the denizens of dEdmonton were preparing for a Bloody (but peaceful) Gorilla hunt in Spruce Grove, our good friends from the Clyde Haunted House took their crew of witches, werewolves, hearses and mummies on the road to scare up some fun in the parade for Westlock’s Annual Fair and Rodeo.
They were very kind to fly the dEdmonton banner for us, so we could be there in spirit, and their entry won third place in their category! The judges were probably impressed by the lustrous coat and firm, proud haunches of the Wolfman.
2009 will be the 4th year for the Clyde Haunted House. It’s on October 31st from 4:00pm to 10:30pm in the Clyde Community Hall, which is about an hour north of Edmonton. Last year they had nearly 1000 visitors – in a town with a population of 500!
It’s open to all ages at no charge, but they do ask visitors to bring donations for the Food Bank.
They’ve got two gorgeous hearses, and this year their goal is to fill one of them with food (but why stop at one, right?)
They have two venues: for the young ones (children under 11) and those young at heart, there is a guided tour and all the creepy crawlies promise to behave themselves; after that it’s Enter at your own Risk.
There are treats for all the kids, and coffee and hot chocolate for the adults.
So if you’re in the neighbourhood on Halloween don’t forget to drop by for a scare!
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One day we’ll get these groups together to settle the age-old questions:
Wolfman vs. Gorilla
Zom-brownie vs. Mummy
(Personally, a Zombie-Wolfman could take all of ‘em. Although nothing beats a Mummy-Gorilla.)
Westlock Photos are by Ashley Rich
Spruce Grove Parade
August 16, 2009 By
The latest cast of characters
dEdmonton’s inaugural parade season continues, this time taking our cast of characters just west of Edmonton to Spruce Grove for the 2009 Grove Cruise.
The Grove Cruise is all about cars; with a Parade, Show & Shine, Tailgate Swap Meet & Sale, Poker Run, Burnout competition and more. The Edmonton Bonewagon Association fit right in, and were well represented with three hearses. They were also joined by a gorgeous vintage entry from Connelly Mckinnley Funeral Home that we had seen earlier this year in the Capital Ex parade.
The weather was once again on our side, with heavy morning fog breaking for what turned out to be a perfect day for a parade (unless you’re a gorilla being chased by a chain-saw wielding clown).
Bad Gorilla
After the parade we all headed over to the shown & shine to check out the cars, and relax.
Thanks to the Paranormal Explorers Ben & Rona and their hearse Bella; Shane, Carla, Alisa and the zom-brownies from the RCZC;Bloody the Clown; Robb the Gorilla; and and the organizers of the Grove Cruise.
Connelly-McKinley gets you to the Church on time
Coffee - almost as good as brains
Even Bloody has standards
The rest of our photos from Spruce Grove can be found on the Sights & Sounds page here.
Vegreville Parade
August 9, 2009 By
Vegreville Pysanka and some real characters
After our appearance in the Lamont parade, one of the members of the Vegreville float asked us to be in their parade. So after booking time off work some of us headed out to Vegreville in a hearse, a van and a truck.
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Lamont Parade
July 26, 2009 By
At the Town of Lamont sign
We were a hit!
Lamont holds it’s annual Fair Days at the end of July and has events for not only the 1600 town residents, but all of the other towns in the County of Lamont.
Being a smaller parade, and the fact that it was farther out of town, only a small contingent represented the dEdmonton festitivies. Comprised of Bella the Hearse, driven by Ben, Rona the Vampire, Bloody the Clown, Shane, Carla, Matt plus a couple other zombies from the River City Zombie Committee, the people along the parade route cheered as our entry went by.
Bloody The Clown looks for some direction from the residents
The dEdmonton parade entry
The parade wound it’s way though many of the towns streets and the 45 minute route means that everyone that was there had a good look at the dEdmonton entry.
It was also noticed by the parade committee – who awarded the “Best Club/Organization” trophy to our entry.
Best Club/Organization Award
It was also noticed by other entries, including another town that invited us to their parade too! More details on that event later.
After the parade the entrants were invited to the after party where they received a beverage and a meal. A fun time was had by all.
There was one minor casualty in this though – Bella the Hearse had her passenger door scratched while everyone was eating. This is not a slight on the town of Lamont as this was liable to happen anywhere, but it was disappointing that this happened. This will not stop Bella and her owners, the Paranormal Explorers Team of Ben and Rona, who plan to get her healed up and back out for everyone to see.
The rest of our photos from Lamont can be found on Sights & Sounds page here.
Capital Ex Parade
July 18, 2009 By
The Pumpkinhead speaks to City TV
Halloween in Edmonton came early this year, because on July 16th, 2009, Edmonton held it’s annual Capital Ex Parade, and for the first year there was a dEdmonton: Canada’s Halloween Festival entry. We stirred things up a little and had a great time both delighting and frightening the spectators along the parade route.
Thanks to some pre-parade press via CBC Radio Edmonton, iNews880 and Kerry Diotte’s column in the Edmonton Sun, plus phone calls to other radio stations by the participants (including Bloody The Clown!) and interview with a certain City TV morning host, some people knew we were coming.
Others did not though.
Bloody the Clown and unsuspecting victims
Not only were other parade entrants surprised by the variety of characters, a dozen zombies and two hearses, so were the 225,000 people that lined the parade route. The parade took us past all of them.
The beginning of the dEdmonton parade entry
Thanks to the zombie control team that came to us from Freezome Zedmonton, even though our zombies tried to feed on the audience. Some people found it too scary, but we think the majority of the crowd enjoyed us. There were even chants of “zombies! zombies!” going on in one section.
A few less scary characters
We did have less scary entries too – after all, dEdmonton is here to promote all Halloween events, for all ages. In addition to the myriad of zombies and their control team we had Alice in Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts, a Pumpkinhead, a vampire and her monsterous mate, the voodoo lord Baron Samedi and two hearses from the Edmonton Bonewagon Association with both lving and dead passengers!
You're so ah, peeling?
Reach out and touch someone
Carla's not used to the sunlight
Baron Samedi RIPs on K-Days
Baron Samedi as our Marshall
The Freezome Containment Team, zombies, and Alice in Wonderland
Mr. Pumpkinhead and The Scarecrow
We need to thank the following for their help, sponsorship and participation in this wonderful event.
- Karries’ Kostumes
- The River City Zombie Committee
- The Edmonton Bonewagon Association
- Freezone Zedmonton
- DEDfest: Hellberta’s Horror Festival
- Bloody the Clown – become a fan on FaceBook!
We hope that everyone who saw us enjoyed our entry! Feel free to leave your comments and let us know your thoughts.
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