By BOB SOFALY
Thousands of people lined Boundary and Carteret streets as the annual Christmas Parade wound its way through Beaufort on a clear, cool Sunday.
There were floats with scouts on them, church and civic groups, at least one monster truck and a special visit by Santa Claus himself bringing up the rear on a Port Royal fire truck.
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