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This Sunday, Sept. 12, Solano Avenue in Berkeley and Albany hosts the Annual Solano Stroll, a day-long fun and food festival. 

The high point is the traditional parade at 11 a.m. This year’s theme, “A Pearl of a Stroll,” celebrates the stroll’s 30th anniversary. And if your name is Pearl, you still have a chance to be one of the parade’s Grand Marshals. Bring a photo I.D. to the registration table at Solano and the Alameda between 9:45 and 10:45 a.m. 

Lisa Bullwinkel, executive director of the Solano Avenue Association, said one lady named Minnie Pearl, who will be 95 on Sept. 15, has already qualified and is practicing her waves by watching videos of Queen Elizabeth II, but there’s always room for a few more Pearls on the string.™