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Dia de los Reyes returns to Tijuana!

Ken Cooke - 1-4-2012 at 11:15 AM



Melchor, Gaspar and Baltazar will return to Tijuana January 5 in the parade organized by the Foundation for help that floats, thread and chocolate children receive gifts from the hands of the three Magi.


María Elvia Hank Amaya, President of the Foundation reported Tuesday in a press conference that the parade will start at about 17: 00 hours of preparatory Lázaro Cárdenas and continue their journey by walk of heroes through the Cecut.


The parade opens with a float to the star of Bethlehem followed by another dedicated to the arrival of the child Jesus, the Inns which will include live animals and children breaking the piñata and platform in the form of giant gift in where they will present for the little ones.


Closing the parade cabalgarán in horse and camel the three Magi and behind them a contingent of twelve horses and the people who decide to join the parade to the Cecut.


They will be their own Kings Magi who delivered the gifts and to obtain children must form, said the former first lady municipal.


The last parade organised in January 2008 when Hank Amaya was President of municipal DIF was attended by little more than 300 thousand people but since since then not performed there an estimate of how many attendees will attend the event.


What is clear is that thousands will be the gifts that the platform in the form of gift brings in its interior, some made with the support of sponsors and the remainder of the concert of Shakira as well as allowing extending the aid of the Foundation programmes enabling buy part of the gifts.

source: http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/03012...