148897 Resource 87057 11060 11060 1163620355590 1163620355590 Controlled News Item The Dixie Strollers to play for FL Senior State Championship Games

Stroller of Ft Myers to lead the Olympic Style procession (grouped by County) of Senior Athletes

The Florida Sports Foundation in Tallahassee have hired the <strong>Dixie Strollers of Ft Myers</strong> to Lead the Parade of Senior Champions on Dec 8th into the City of Palms Red Sox Stadium. The parade will start at 5 PM. Cost of admission is $7 and includes a meal. This a party for all the seniors who have participated in the State games which are hosted by Lee County. Over 2000 visitors are expected to to spend time in FT Myers between Dec 2 and Dec 10th either watching or competing in 20 sports. The Dixie Stroller are honored to play for such a distinguished group of active seniors. The manager of the Strollers, Gerry French, just happens to one of the competing athaletes as the current 2005 Gold Medal State Champion in the 75-79 age group for Racquetball, Badminton. He also is playing in the new sport sweeping the county called Pickleball again in the  75 to 79 age group. 10 application/xml false Dixieland Music Fl State Senior Games Southwest Florida Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 gwfrench false true false false true 87057 blog blogsite/GFE/web