Mika named grand marshal for Parade of Nations

SHENANDOAH – One of the founders and visionaries of Downtown Shenandoah, Inc. will be the grand marshal for this year’s Heritage Day Parade of Nations in downtown Shenandoah.

Attorney Eric Mika, a Shenandoah native, was announced Thursday as grand marshal.

Mika is a founder and past president of DSI, which organizes the annual event.

A member of the Williamson Friedberg & Jones Law Firm, he is the only certified elder care lawyer in Schuylkill County.

He has been an advocate for Shenandoah for decades

“[The people of Shenandoah] can be tough, feisty, certainly fiercely opinionated and quick to shoot from the hip, but if you show them you genuinely care, they are very proud, loyal, and God-fearing individuals who’ll give you the shirt off their back when their community is in need. It is just Shenandoah’s culture,” Mika said in a statement read by current DSI President Karen Kenderdine at last year’s groundbreaking for the Center for Education, Business, and the Arts.

The parade kicks off at 10am in downtown Shenandoah.

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