The Bermuda Day Heritage Parade seems to be bigger and better each year, and there were many features about the 2012 event that moved us to believe it must go into the record books as the greatest.We think of the immeasurable spirit underlining each of the fifty-plus entries that took nearly three hours to pass the reviewing stand. There was the creativity, imagination, enthusiasm, coordination, collaboration of the thousands involved in pulling it all together in a timely way.Most intriguing were the names given to the various floats, dance and musical groups and other entries that spoke volumes. Among them the colourful Ex-Artillery Elite Majorettes, some in their late sixties; Warwick United Signature Majorettes; Devonshire Ultimate “Star” Twirlers; Krazed Ego Dance Group; IXQuisite; St. George’s Original Dancerettes; Diverse Conception; Zumba Fusion; Vasco Da Gama Club and Float; Bermuda African Dance Company Foundation; Split Personality Dance Group; the Dragon Girl Dancers.There were the Roots Gombeys; the Gombey Warriors; the perennial Places New Generation Gombeys; Berkeley Institute Band and National Drumline Academy; Sandys Secondary Middle School Showtime Drumline; Warwick Academy’s massive prize-winning float highlighting the school’s 400th year.Over and above the foregoing, it was the Pembroke Hamilton Club’s PHC Majorettes and Drum Corp who stole the entire show. With “their high-energy twirling routines, diva orientated pom-pom movements and unbeatable drum rhythms,” living up to their programmed promise to excite the thousands along the entire parade route.The nine sections of performers currently making up the group include the Precious Pom Poms, age 5-7; Junior Cutie Majorettes, age 7-12; Junior Cutie Flags, age 7-12; Senior Diva Pom Poms and Senior Diva Flags; Stylista Majorettes, age 30 and up, all backed by the Heavenly Hoop Twirlers and Dynamic Drummers.Most noteworthy was the programme note that next month PHCMDC will travel to Washington, D.C. to become the first Bermudian group to perform in the National Independence Day Parade. From there they will attend their Bi-Annual Twirling & Drum Camp in Orlando, Florida.Regarding the 2012 Heritage Parade once the diverse participants had collaborated among themselves about what they wanted to do, and how to finance and otherwise execute it, there was the gigantic task of the Heritage Day Advisory Committee headed by Mrs. Louise Tannock and her colleagues in the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs to make it happen in a smooth flowing spectacular production.Outstanding in that effort were Mrs. Heather Whalen, the Senior Community and Cultural Affairs Officer; Folklife Officer, Dr. Kim Dismont Robinson and Mrs. Clyde-A-Mae Tucker-Place. We thought it was all fantastic, worthy of the highest accolades.