Josephian Vehicle Parade 2019 tomorrow

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With a proud history of over 100 years, St. Joseph’s College, Colombo 10, continue to be at the forefront in both education and sports, nurturing thousands of young minds to become great leaders and role models in Sri Lanka and all over the world.

The annual Joe-Pete One Day Encounter is one of the most significant in the Josephian event calendar, played this year for the 45th time at the Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) on 23 March. The history of the fierce rivalry between two of the top Catholic schools in the country itself creates great excitement, and the Josephian Vehicle Parade that escorts the school cricket team brings the right tempo for all the die-hard Josephian fans to enjoy and embrace this event.

For the past seven years, the Vehicle Parade has been organised with great enthusiasm and pride. In the beginning only around 150 vehicles partook in the event but during the last few years it has become a major event with over 750 vehicles and more than 2500 participants.

The parade will start at 7am this year, from the College premises in Colombo-10 and proceed to the Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) in Maitland Crescent.

President of the batch of 2006 and Parade 2019 Organising Committee Head Lahiru Munasinghe shared his thoughts on the event: “The Vehicle Parade has become one of the most significant events in the college calendar and is organised every year by the batch of 2006. As the President of the founding batch of the Vehicle Parade event, I’m excited to organise this year’s event with a new outlook. I remember our first Vehicle Parade which was done in a small scale. However, since 2011, the past Presidents have gradually added more glamour to this extravagant event. Now it’s one of the most thrilling, exciting and disciplined parades in Colombo.

The Organising Committee wishes to extend a warm invitation to all Josephians to join the Parade and to keep this well-established tradition going strong, cheering our team to victory.»

The Josephian Vehicle Parade 2019 is sponsored by Sunday Times as the print media partner, Sun FM; electronic media partner, breakfast partner Milo and Maggi, Lavenro Garden Luxury Hotel as hospitality partner and LB finance as the main finance partner.

As silver sponsors, Debug Digital Centre Ltd., Winfield Associates Ltd., Wayamba Advertising Ltd., Showi Creation Ltd., Siyadco Advertising Ltd., Peterson Advertising Ltd., Jetex Ltd., Rathnalim Hardware, Helios P2P Ltd., Elephant House, Mass One BTL Ltd., CND Advertising Ltd., IBSF Lanka Ltd. and Nature Industries & Distributors Ltd. join hands with the school.