Ron Magill named Grand Marshal of Mango Strut

This year's King Mango Strut Grand Marshal was chosen by the Mangoheads and it's long-time Miamian Ron Magill (left), from Zoo Miami. Ron is Communications Director of the zoo and has been with them for over 30 years and is there any wilder zoo than the King Mango Strut? Perfect team up as far as we are concerned.

Meet Ron on Wednesday, December 7 at the next King Mango Strut meeting at Greenstreets (3468 Main Highway) at 8 pm.

As Grand Marshal of the 30th annual King Mango Strut, he'll reign supreme to "Occupy the Grove" on Saturday, December 31 at 2 pm in Downtown Coconut Grove for the actual King Mango Strut parade through the streets of the Center Grove.


This year's Strut Celebrity is Katy Sorenson, the never recalled/never indicted/never removed-by-the-governor, former commissioner of Miami-Dade County. Katy has been much closer to King Mango than Facebook's 4 degrees of separation. She was Strut's co-founder, Bill Dobson's, boss.

The annual satirical street parade has been a model of civic engagement and civil uprising with enough material for a pickapeppa spray and sauce combination. In this interactive parade, the spectators, the true occupiers, are encouraged to bring tents, lawn chairs and cardboard signs. For the King Mango royal watchers, it's the big hats and fascinators (you know, those funny things the ladies wear on their heads at royal weddings).

King Mango is still looking for a few good Mango Heads to strut in the parade. There are no entry fees, no special skills or x-factor auditions required; just join the fun and strut your funny.

If your group needs ideas or people, come to the next Disorganizational meeting at Greenstreet Café. They also need behind-the-scenes help.

If you want to participate, contact the King at kingmangostrut@gmail.com or call the Mango Hotline at 305-401-1171. For more information check out their new website at www.kingmangostrut.org and you can follow them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/kingmangostrut for the latest Mango news and tidbits.

Wonder if the Grove big shots will allow Ron to slither around town with his big snake as they drove Trevor, our "real" snake guy out of town.