Festival Parade Marshals Are Now Revealed

TV meteorologist and CHOC ‘dancing doctor’ will preside

Weather you’re ready or not, the 63rd Annual Garden Grove Strawberry Festival is right around the corner, and KTLA meteorologist and former Garden Grove resident Vera Jimenez will be the celebrity grand marshal for the festival parade.

The theme this year is “Celebrating Kindness,” and the theme grand marshal is Tony Adkins, the “Dancing Doctor” who is in the pediatric neurosurgery department at Children’s Hospital of Orange County in Orange.

Jimenez was born in Mexico and moved to California when she was 3. Most of her family still lives in Garden Grove. She attended Bolsa Grande High School and Santa Ana College.

Many of those artworks are on public display in the Village Green park at Euclid and Main streets in downtown Garden Grove. Also on the agenda for Tuesday night is the recognition of the employees of the month. Jason Bevacqua, assistant superin-

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“It’s an honor to be part of this year’s Garden Grove Strawberry Festival,’ said Jimenez. “The festival has been such a special part of this community for over 60 years and the positive energy here is unlike anything else.”

Adkins said the event is “more than a festival, it’s an opportunity to celebrate the good in our com- munity and bring people together.”

According to Andrea Perez, president of the Strawberry Festival Association, the parade is dedicated to Ric Lerma, a prominent Garden Grove resident and business owner who died in February.