The other returning grand marshals will be: the McGrath family, who led the 1997 parade honoring all descendants of Ventura County Irish pioneers; the Elks Lodge No. 1430, which sponsors the parade each year (2004); the E.J. Harrison & Sons family, who in 2007 honored trash/recycling company matriarch Myra Harrison and, appropriately, the theme “Go Green”; the Women of Jewelia, a philanthropic group formed around a shared diamond necklace (2009); Richard Rush, former president of California State University, Channel Islands, and a community activist (2014); 150 years of Ventura descendent families, which when they led the parade in 2016 included the Foster, Olivas, Harrison and Moraga clans; Mary Osborne, Ventura’s own world-famous surfing champion (2017); and local first responders, honored last year for their heroic work during the Thomas Fire of December 2017.