Clow Valve Wins Judges Choice Award in 2017 Christmas Parade

December 6, 2017

We are pleased to announce that Clow Valve’s entry in the 2017 Oskaloosa, Iowa Christmas Parade won the Judges Choice Award.  The theme for this year’s entry was National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.  The team was pretty excited because they haven’t come in first place since 2010.

Approximately 20,000 people, almost the entire town, showed up for this year’s parade. They had wonderful weather and a great staff at the Oskaloosa Area Chamber & Development Group pulled off another fantastic celebration. Events like this have a way of bringing the community together.

Clow Valve team member Bob Bateson said, “My biggest gift for managing this float is seeing the joy on the faces of the little ones.”

Big thanks to Roy Winkleman for lending his RV, Steve Davis for “bare”ing the cold to play cousin Eddie (it was a big hit), James Jennings and Kaden Linder (the prince and princess), Julie Isley (local artist) and the other 20+ people that donated their time to work on the winning project.