Fountain Hills, AZ Home Coming Parade Oct 2011

Home Coming parade showcases Fountain Hills' students and significant others! Great hometown fun you just don't see in large metro areas ! Wonderful weather this year with temps in the low 70's... almost sweater weather for the locals :-)

The parade looped down and back up Avenue of Fountains allowing parade watchers to get a full dose of fun, candy tosses, horn blowing, sirens, and lets not forget the GREAT fountain hills high school band!

Fountain Hills is located just east of Scottsdale, AZ next to Fort McDowell. A relatively modern bedroom community with a fantastic easy pace of day to day life. Pop 24,669 as of 2006. Fountain Hills Unified School District #98 has four schools. McDowell Mountain Elementary School for Kindergarten-2nd grade, Four Peaks Elementary School for grades 3-5, Fountain Hills Middle School for grades 6-8, and Fountain Hills High School for grades 9-12. There is a Charter School, which has all grades up until high school.

It has the world's fourth tallest fountain. The fountain was built in 1970, by Robert P. McCulloch, the year before the reconstruction of the London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, another of McCulloch's projects. The fountain sprays water for about 15 minutes every hour between 9am and 9pm. The plume rises from a concrete water-lily sculpture in the center of a large man-made lake. The fountain, driven by three 600 horsepower (450 kW) turbine pumps, sprays water at a rate of 7000 gallons per minute through an 18-inch nozzle. With all three pumps under ideal conditions, the fountain reaches 560 feet (170 m) in height.

The town has two annual fairs, a local art fair and the Fountain Hills Great Fair which incorporates arts and a carnival

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[AlbinoTopaz]

haha i'm the mascot 3:03 thanks for getting this!