Glow on Monroe rolls into Downtown Buckeye | News

Glow on Monroe rolls into Downtown Buckeye | News

Coming into its 19th edition, the Glow on Monroe Electrical Mild Parade is returning to Downtown Buckeye this weekend.

Rolling by Monroe Avenue, from Second Road to Apache Road, classic vehicles and fireplace vans, among some others, will be lit up with vibrant lights, all accompanied by festive music, food vans, and beer and wine gardens, generating it a terrific introduction to the holiday getaway season. 

“It just offers it that hometown truly feel, that small city feel, that genuinely just will get you in the holiday getaway spirit,” claimed John O’Halloran, community data workplace, city of Buckeye. “It’s just a actually superior local community-driven celebration.”

Started out in 2004, the Glow on Monroe event served a scaled-down farming group, as tractors and old vehicles would sport the holiday lights as they drove down Monroe Avenue. As time has progressed, nevertheless, Buckeye has speedily turned itself into 1 of the premiere sites to be. 

This celebration however supplies a way to have the local community come alongside one another and rally driving an occasion place on for them. 

“People adore it,” O’Halloran explained. “It’s a person of the (gatherings) that often receives talked about. As before long as we set it out on social media, men and women are declaring, ‘We have to go. Let’s go check out this out.’ It’s hardly ever a lousy time. I haven’t read anybody at any time complain about it.”

The compact-town feel has grown into a crowd of roughly 6,000 people attending the occasion. They are handled to a plethora of floats and cars to admire. The party will be MC’d by Buckeye Mayor Eric Orsborn himself, and will announce the motor vehicle motorists by identify, providing an even far better experience for spectators and participants alike.

“The Glow on Monroe is one particular of my beloved occasions of the yr,” Orsborn stated. “I really like currently being equipped to announce the floats and marching bands as they cruise as a result of Historic Downtown Buckeye. Being 1 of the swiftest-increasing cities in the state, it is situations like the Glow on Monroe that carry on to give Buckeye that compact-city really feel.”

“It’s an option for residents to appear to check out out the Downtown space and commit high-quality time with their families, while also acquiring to know their neighbors,” he additional. “Seeing the creative imagination of the floats and Downtown Buckeye decked out with lights, it is an event that will definitely get you into the holiday break spirit.”

On Saturday, Dec. 10, the Glow on Monroe occasion will carry out food stuff trucks at the 6th Road Plaza, a thing the party hasn’t had ahead of. In addition, the 6th Street Plaza will have a beer and wine backyard garden that will have beverages and signature cocktails for attendees of the occasion.

Total, the the moment tractor-driven occasion that catered to a compact viewers has now turn out to be a staple of Downtown Buckeye in the wintertime, and even nevertheless the crowds are getting larger and greater every single year, it will usually contribute to the little-city experience of the budding town. 

“The (inhabitants) like to get down listed here and just have a fantastic time with their relatives and fulfill their neighbors,” O’Halloran explained. “The faces of the young children in the crowd that just mild up when the fireplace truck goes by and hits the siren or something like that. Just to see them light up is great enough for me.”