Tens of thousands of people lined King Street Saturday for the 8th Annual Lion’s Club of Kitchener Santa Claus Parade.

It started at 10 a.m. at King and Erb in Waterloo and ends about 90 minutes later at King and Cedar in Kitchener.

Parade Chairman, Vic Bovingdon says mainstays of the parade will be back again this year, like the famous Lion as well as the Guide Dogs of Canada.  He tells 570 News, the parade sees about 20,000 to 30,000 people line King Street each year.  

Bovingdon says it is the biggest community parade in the area, adding “this is a community that totally gets involved in the parade.”

There are over 150 volunteers helping run the parade with 88 entries and roughly 40 floats.