http://www.swallowsparade.org.
Bill and Joan Cvengros
San Juan Capistrano residents and community leaders Bill and Joan Cvengros will serve as grand marshals for the 2012 Swallows Day Parade on Saturday, March 24. Other dignitaries include Senior San Juan John “Fish” Fischle and Miss Fiesta Nancy Ingham. Junior dignitaries are representatives of the Boys & Girls Club of Capistrano Valley and include Cristian Marron as Jr. Senor San Juan and Hilda De La Cruz as Jr. Miss Fiesta.
Bill and Joan Cvengros have lived in San Juan Capistrano for 19 years, but fell in love with the city and started coming to the Swallows Day Parade long before that time. They are strongly linked with the San Juan community and support the Mission Preservation Board, Boys & Girls Club of Capistrano Valley and the J.F. Shea Therapeutic Riding Center.
Senior San Juan John Fischel and Miss Fiesta Nancy Ingham can already be seen around town at various events in their black and white attire and sashes as proud ambassadors of the city of San Juan Capistrano and Fiesta Association.
Junior dignitaries Cristian Marron and Hilda De La Cruz are both eighth graders at Marco Forster Middle School in San Juan. Selected by Boys & Girls Club of Capistrano Valley’s executive director James Littlejohn, Cristian and Hilda are longtime members of the Club, outstanding students, participants in AVID and community leaders. They have both lived in San Juan Capistrano for most of their lives and happen to be good friends.
The grand marshals and dignitaries will ride among 120 parade entries featured in the 54th Swallows Day Parade in downtown San Juan Capistrano on Saturday, March 24, 2012. Fiesta de las Golondrinas – meaning Festival of the Swallows – activities pay tribute to the annual return of the swallows and San Juan Capistrano’s Spanish, western and Juaneno Indian heritage.
For more information about the Swallows Day Parade or the San Juan Capistrano Fiesta Association, call 949.493.1976 or visit www.swallowsparade.org.
About the Fiesta de las Golondrinas and the San Juan Capistrano Fiesta Association
The Fiesta de Las Golondrinas is tied to the legendary return of the swallows to the Mission San Juan Capistrano on St. Joseph’s Day, March 19th. The square-tailed cliff swallows spend the summer in San Juan Capistrano and leave in late October to travel 6000 miles for a winter in Goya, Argentina.
The San Juan Capistrano Fiesta Association is an all-volunteer organization that manages and produces the annual Swallows Day Parade and other Fiesta de las Golondrinas events throughout the year. A nonprofit, nonpolitical organization, the Fiesta Association is led by a board of directors and is entirely self-funded through donations and various fundraising activities.
