While you are watching the Morden Corn and Apple Festival Parade Saturday morning, you will certainly notice the brand new Festival Float, because it's hard to miss. The Morden Corn & Apple Festival Board of Directors, with assistance from a grant from the Morden Area Foundation, have produced a new Float to promote the Festival and other Morden tourism resources including the Art Gallery and Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre at regional parades.

The new float was designed and built by Checker Signs which is celebrating its 25th year in business in Morden.  This is the fourth constructed by Checker Signs for the Festival and each has been more sophisticated than the last.

Corn & Apple Festival Board Chairman Reg Braun is very happy with this new design, "The Festival needs a float that will not require people to ride in parades but that would still be colourful, interesting and unique," he noted, "This design incorporates a generator to move various elements on the Float.  It will be fresh and appealing as viewed from every direction.”  “It is a work in progress which will allow for the addition of new elements over time."

The new float performed admirably on its test runs in the Winkler Harvest Festival Parade two weekends ago, and the Plum Fest Parade last weekend.

As for Saturday's Corn and Apple Festival parade, it begins at 10 a.m. The parade begins at the corner of 1st Street at Stephen Street and heads west. It turns south at Stephen Street and Fourth Street, and then turns west at North Railway Street. It then turns north at 11th Street, and turns west once again at Stephen Street. The parade ends and disperses at the corner of Stephen Street and Mountain Street.

The first Corn & Apple Festival Parade was held in 1975, and 2010 will mark the 36th Parade and the 44th Morden Corn and Apple Festival.