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Santa and the Lions Parade come to town Sunday

By Vera Chinese

JENNETT MERIDEN RUSSELL | Santa Claus makes his way down Main Street during the 2010 Riverhead Lions Club annual Christmas parade

Santa and the Riverhead Lions Club annual Christmas Parade will once again trundle down Main Street in Riverhead Sunday.

The parade steps off at the intersection of West Main Street and Osborn Avenue at 1 p.m. and make its way east down Main Street and ends in the Peconic River parking lot. It will feature local fire departments, ambulance companies, dignitaries, classic cars and other clubs.

The parade will be followed by a kids meet and greet with Santa on the Riverhead Town show mobile in the parking lot next to the Peconic River.

Riverhead Lions president and Riverhead Town attorney Bob Kozakiewicz would not say who will be dressed as the big man this year, though he promised it will not be town councilman John Dunleavy.

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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