Goodbye, Days of ’47 Youth Parade. Saturday’s event will be the last, ending an 80-year-old Utah Mormon tradition

(Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune) A young boy rushes to slap hands with a clown during the annual Days of ’47 Youth Parade in 2014.

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