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out <£: about
Who loves a parade? Dunwoody’s Pam Tallmadge surely does
BY JOE EARLE
joeearle@reporternewspapers.net
Work starts in January. Commit
tees start meeting. Spreadsheets fill with
data. Volunteers recruit and train scores
of other volunteers.
Pam Tallmadge watches over it all.
About six months later, on the morn
ing of July 4, everything comes togeth
er as Dunwoody’s annual Fourth of July
Parade — which residents of the north
DeKalb city claim is now the biggest
event of its kind in the metro area —
steps off on its 2-plus-mile march down
Mount Vernon Road.
“I love the parade,” Tallmadge said.
“The parade is my favorite volunteer job
I’ve ever done. Who doesn’t love a pa
rade?”
Tallmadge, co-chairwoman of the
parade since 2006, jokes she’s known
around town nowadays as “Parade Pam.”
She, co-chair Penny Forman, and their
volunteer crew make sure Dunwoody’s
annual holiday to-do comes off without
a hitch.
On July 3, Tallmadge marks the start
ing spots for all the units registered to
take part in the parade. Once the parade
starts, Tallmadge said, she actually runs
alongside to make sure everything is in
the right place and stays there. “I am the
parade police,” Tallmadge joked one re
cent afternoon during a chat at a local
coffee shop.
What keeps her coming back? “I
have a ball doing it,” she said. “It’s a cel-
‘I love it. July 5 is kind of like
Christmas afternoon at our
house. It’s over. All my email
gets really quiet. I’m like,
‘Where did my friends go?”’
- PAM TALLMADGE
ebration rolled into a party rolled into a
Mayberry-patriotic-Dunwoody [event].
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