Mudhens Celebrate Title In Style

It’s party time McCall!

The McCall Mudhens will celebrate their first title in grand McCall fashion – with a “ticker tape” parade up Johnson Street on Saturday.
Bob Gibson, Lou Brock and the rest of the Hens’ will be swimming in a sea of confetti and congratulatory cheers on lower Johnson to City Hall starting at 11 a.m.

Mayor Woody unveiled the parade plans after the Mudhens stunning victory Wednesday night.
“Congratulations to all the Mudhens for bringing the world championship home to McCall, where it belongs,” said Woody, who watched Game 6 at at McCall Memorial

He will present the keys to the city to the champs at a City Hall ceremony right after the triumphant march.
While anyone can line the route, a limited number of tickets to the City Hall celebration will be available, the mayor’s office said. Information on how tickets will be distributed will be available today.

The weather is expected to cooperate too – the forecast is for a crisp cool fall day, partly cloudy, with temps near 50.
McCall citizens are pumped and primed for the parade.

“I am so psyched; it’s wonderful,” said Andrea Lilly 28, an executive at William Barthman Jewelers, whose store sits along the route. “The parade is such an uplifting thing.”

It will be the first ticker-tape parade on Johnson for the Hens’.

About 20 office buildings on Johnson will get stacks of shredded recyclable paper to toss down. Ticker tape hasn’t been used since stock tickers became obsolete in the 1960s.

Some 36 tons of paper will be used for the Hens” parade said Tim Bunker, senior vice president for operations at Downtown Alliance, which is set to distribute the confetti.

“The excitement is building,” he said.

Enthusiasm was running high elsewhere in downtown McCall where office workers get a bird’s-eye view of the floats.
“It’s a spectacle, and it’s not like it happens every year,” said Tom Srack, 32, who works at the local Petro 2. “They haven’t won in a while.”

The city says the parade will cost about $331,000, with all but $24,000 covered by private donors.