Parade winners announced

The Nevada Daily Mail float won first prize in the business category in the 2008 Bushwhacker Days Parade. Photos by Ralph Pokorny/Daily Mail.

Elliott's Scouts, who won first prize in the adult category, announced their presence in the 2008 Bushwhacker Days Parade Saturday with a volley of gunfire and cloud of black smoke.

The 44th annual Bushwhacker parade, themed "A Time to Reconnect," featured more than 75 entries Saturday evening.

Entries competed for honors in five categories, with a float by Vernon County People for Pets taking home the Best of Parade honor.

First place went to Elliott's Scouts in the adult category; the Kids 4 Christ float, First Christian Church, in the youth category; the Nevada Daily Mail in the business category; Frank and Pat Arnold in the antique vehicle category; and Jocelyn Davis in the equestrian category.

Second and third place entries included a group of 24 Shriners and the Vietnam Veterans of America in the adult category, the Community Christian/Living Hope Fellow-ship and Pentecostal Assembly churches in the youth category, 3M and Phillips Towing in the business category, Leonard Lemmon and Charley Schubert in the antique vehicle category and Debra Schuster and Harold Fritts in the equestrian category.