 Do you worry about having enough money to last throughout retirement? Give Reed Potter at Raymond James a call. Reed has 26 years experience helping folks enjoy their best life in their retirement years. The annual Christmas parade is returning to the city of Pikeville, Friday, December 8th at 6 p.m. Applications to participate in the parade are now open and are due by December 1st. Absolutely. The Christmas parade is one of the most wonderful events we have all year long here in the city of Pikeville. It's going to take place on 2nd Street on December 8th starting at 6 p.m. Now of course your question is, I want to be in the Christmas parade, how do I do that? It's very simple. You just go to visitpikeville.com, click on events, and then just scroll down to Christmas parade application. That's it. You do that, we'll send you some emails, we'll get you all set up so you can be a part of this Christmas parade, which is just a great tradition here in the city of Pikeville. The parade has been a longstanding tradition in the city with the annual Christmas parade dating back to the 1960s. You can see all kinds of things, of course you see marching bands, you see just regular bands, you see ball teams, you see members of the community, you see classic cars come through, just anything and everything you could think of, all kinds of great Christmas decorations on vehicles, we've seen them on wagons even, anything you can think of that's going to be there. And of course at the end of the parade, our great friends at the Pikeville Fire Department will have a fire truck come through that may just happen to have some special guests from the North Pole on there. For more information, go to Pikeville City Tourism on Facebook. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Breanna Robinson.