NEW TIME & ROUTE: Bayonne To Honor Little League Team With Parade This Sunday

 **NEW START TIME & ROUTE:

DUE TO SUNDAY’S RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS FORECAST FOR SUNDAY MORNING, BAYONNE HAS ANNOUNCED A NEW STARTING TIME AND ROUTE FOR THE CITY’S PARADE HONORING THE LITTLE LEAGUE METRO CHAMPIONS.  

SUNDAY’S PARADE WILL NOW START AT 1 PM.   THE NEW STARTING LOCATION IS 9TH STREET & BROADWAY.  IT WILL HEAD SOUTH ON BROADWAY TO 1ST STREET AND GO DIRECTLY TO THE LITTLE LEAGUE FIELD.                                                                                                                                                                                                     The tremendous run by Bayonne’s State Championship Little League baseball team at the Williamsport Little League World Series, won by Curacao, will be celebrated this Sunday, September 13th with a parade through the Peninsula City and a ceremony at the Little League field downtown sponsored by the Recreation Department.

The event will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon.  Bayonne Mayor Sharon Nadrowski stated, “The City of Bayonne is extremely proud of our World Series heroes.  We welcome this opportunity to honor the first team in Bayonne history that competed in a Little League World Series.”

The procession will consist of two floats for the players and the coaches.

Starting location: The procession will gather at 30^th Street and Avenue C in Bayonne at 10:30 a.m.

Procession route: The procession will move eastward down 30^th Street from Avenue C to Broadway.  Then the floats will turn right onto Broadway. The procession will move southward down Broadway from 30^th Street to 5^th Street. Then the floats will turn right, going west on 5^th Street until reaching Avenue C.  After that, the floats will drive south down to 1^st Street.   The procession will turn right on 1^st Street and will proceed westward to the Little League facility at 1^st Street and Kennedy Boulevard. A ceremony will take place at the Little League facility.