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Don’t talk to Carol Johns about rain, it’s not on her radar. She’s the one-woman team who brings Ashburton’s huge Christmas parade to life each year and while it might be raining today, she’s confident Christmas parade organiser Carol Johns that come Saturday morning,
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the rain clouds will be gone. “I won’t be cancelling, too many people have gone to too much trouble; it’ll be fine, I don’t do wet,” she said. The Mid Canterbury Hyundai Santa Parade has become the official start of the festive season in Ashburton and this year will be no different, Johns said. “We’ve got some real treats in store
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... and the parade seems to get bigger every year. “We’ve got eight new entries this year and people are still wanting to be in. We won’t turn anyone away,” she said.
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