The Shelbyville High School Homecoming Parade starts at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Hendricks Elementary School.
The parade will leave Hendricks, 1111 St. Joseph Street, and turn right on to St. Joseph St. and travel east to S. Miller Street, where it will turn right and travel south to McKay Road where it will again turn right and end at the high school tennis courts.
John Hartnett Jr., now retired executive director of the Shelbyville Boys and Girls Club, has been named the Grand Marshall for the parade. A 1976 SHS graduate, he was the Paul Cross Award winner and senior class president during his final year as a Golden Bear.
He has degrees from Franklin College and Butler University and was the 1990 Shelbyville Optimist Club’s Citizen of the Year.
Hartnett Jr. (photo, left) currently serves as an assistant coach for the boys basketball program at Shelbyville. His son, John Hartnett (photo, right), is the head coach of the Golden Bears.
The annual Powder Puff football games will follow the parade at approximately 6:30 p.m. at McKeand Stadium.
On Friday, Shelbyville (1-2) will host New Castle (1-2) at McKeand Stadium in a Hoosier Heritage Conference contest scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.
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