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The fun begins even earlier than the parade. Stewart says the Findlay Market district opens up at 9 a.m. to prepare for visitors arriving early to pick their spots and to see the floats getting ...

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The family, who run Wieland Builders, a custom home building company, have been creating floats for the parade for nine years. "The hardest part of it is coming up with the idea and the scheme and ...