Newark will alight with the colors of red, yellow and blue this weekend in celebrations of Ecuadorian independence, with an official flag raising on Saturday followed on Sunday by a parade and all-day festival in the city’s Ironbound section.
Members of the city’s Ecuadorian community will join city officials at 1 p.m. on Saturday in the City Hall rotunda to raise the tri-color flag of Ecuador in a 1 ½-hour ceremony open to the public, a city spokesperson said Friday.
Sunday’s 15th Annual Ecuadorian Parade and Festival will begin when the parade steps off at noon at the Ironbound’s Five Corners intersection of Merchant and Ferry streets and Wilson Avenue. Marchers will proceed up Ferry Street for a dozen blocks northwest to Edison Place, just outside Newark Penn Station, where the festival is scheduled to rave on until 10 p.m…