Cavalcade of seniors from six high schools ride through Newport and Costa Mesa
By Orange County on June 17, 2020
Graduates ride past the OC Fairgrounds during a parade for seniors in the Newport-Mesa school district in Costa Mesa, CA, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The parade including all six graduating classes of NMUSD high schools as it wound it way from Newport Harbor High to Costa Mesa High and ended at Estancia High School. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Graduates ride past the OC Fairgrounds during a parade for seniors in the Newport-Mesa school district in Costa Mesa, CA, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The parade including all six graduating classes of NMUSD high schools as it wound it way from Newport Harbor High to Costa Mesa High and ended at Estancia High School. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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Graduates ride past the OC Fairgrounds during a parade for seniors in the Newport-Mesa school district in Costa Mesa, CA, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The parade including all six graduating classes of NMUSD high schools as it wound it way from Newport Harbor High to Costa Mesa High and ended at Estancia High School. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Costa Mesa high graduates Frinny Ross, left, and Hayden Paredes take a selfie before a parade for seniors in the Newport-Mesa school district in Costa Mesa, CA, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The parade including all six graduating classes of NMUSD high schools as it wound it way from Newport Harbor High to Costa Mesa High and ended at Estancia High School. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Graduates ride past the OC Fairgrounds during a parade for seniors in the Newport-Mesa school district in Costa Mesa, CA, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The parade including all six graduating classes of NMUSD high schools as it wound it way from Newport Harbor High to Costa Mesa High and ended at Estancia High School. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Graduates ride past the OC Fairgrounds during a parade for seniors in the Newport-Mesa school district in Costa Mesa, CA, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The parade including all six graduating classes of NMUSD high schools as it wound it way from Newport Harbor High to Costa Mesa High and ended at Estancia High School. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Costa Mesa high graduate John Bottazzi during a parade for seniors in the Newport-Mesa school district in Costa Mesa, CA, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The parade including all six graduating classes of NMUSD high schools as it wound it way from Newport Harbor High to Costa Mesa High and ended at Estancia High School. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Estancia High School graduate Leslie Hernandez pauses for a picture before the start of a parade for seniors in the Newport-Mesa school district in Costa Mesa, CA, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The parade including all six graduating classes of NMUSD high schools as it wound it way from Newport Harbor High to Costa Mesa High and ended at Estancia High School. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Graduates ride past the OC Fairgrounds during a parade for seniors in the Newport-Mesa school district in Costa Mesa, CA, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The parade including all six graduating classes of NMUSD high schools as it wound it way from Newport Harbor High to Costa Mesa High and ended at Estancia High School. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Graduates ride past the OC Fairgrounds during a parade for seniors in the Newport-Mesa school district in Costa Mesa, CA, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The parade including all six graduating classes of NMUSD high schools as it wound it way from Newport Harbor High to Costa Mesa High and ended at Estancia High School. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Standing in one of his World War II-era vehicles, Cornell Iliescu salutes during a pause in a parade for seniors in the Newport-Mesa school district in Costa Mesa, CA, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The parade including all six graduating classes of NMUSD high schools as it wound it way from Newport Harbor High to Costa Mesa High and ended at Estancia High School. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Costa Mesa high graduates Frinny Ross, left, and Hayden Paredes, center, and Sophia Maniaci, during a parade for seniors in the Newport-Mesa school district in Costa Mesa, CA, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The parade including all six graduating classes of NMUSD high schools as it wound it way from Newport Harbor High to Costa Mesa High and ended at Estancia High School. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Graduates ride past the OC Fairgrounds during a parade for seniors in the Newport-Mesa school district in Costa Mesa, CA, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The parade including all six graduating classes of NMUSD high schools as it wound it way from Newport Harbor High to Costa Mesa High and ended at Estancia High School. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)
June gloom may have been in the sky, but it was all cheers on the ground as hundreds of students from Newport Beach and Costa Mesa rode in a graduation parade Wednesday afternoon.
Half of the cavalcade of students, led by police, fire and World War II-era military vehicles, started at Newport Harbor High and went past Back Bay High School. They met up with more students at Costa Mesa High and ended at Estancia High School.
Angela Maniaci, a parent of a Costa Mesa High graduate, said the parade was created by parents from high schools around the Newport-Mesa Unified school district and organized on Facebook. “We didn’t get support form the district, so this was all word of mouth though parents and our Facebook pages,” she said.
Some students hung out of car windows cheering and others had tunes blasting from their radios as they drove past the OC fairgrounds at the mid-point of the parade.
“It’s fun… like walking (during) a graduation, but just in cars,” said Estancia graduate Leslie Hernandez.
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