For the first time in 40 years, Larry and Sharon Strobel did not march with the band they created as a way to bring live music to Coeur d’Alene’s annual Fourth of July Parade.

Instead, just moments before the parade began, members of the Perfection-Nots, dressed in festive attire ranging from a ketchup and mustard bottle to Mudgy and Millie, gathered around the couple at 15th Street and Sherman Avenue.

This year, they told the Strobels, the couple would proceed the marching band in a 1967 Chevy Camaro as this year’s grand marshals.

“Well I declare,” Larry, decked out in an Uncle Sam top hat and colorful suspenders, said to the band after hearing the news. “You guys are what makes this work. I’m nothing without you”/Keith Cousins, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.

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