I want to pass along our appreciation to Jamie Cassidy and his staff at the Becker Community Center - and to all who helped organize and carry out the varied and fun activities of Freedom Days 2018 in Becker.
Unless people step forward and volunteer to help carry out these events, there is little acknowledgement for the work that goes into a Freedom Days.
Other than a curve ball from the weather about an hour before the start of Saturday’s parade, there were few hitches in carrying out the events.
We’re proud of your work and ask readers if they have an opportunity to step up and volunteer to help at an event next year, they do so.
It’s about community, the opportunity to meet new faces and carry out such fun events.
Again, congratulations for the work well done.
Sasquatch, the brainchild of Citizen-Tribune Writer Bill Morgan, was again on display with our unit in the parade.
For several weeks during staff meetings, it was bantered about that Dork, our beloved dead Emu of the past, might be worked into the unit.
It was suggested we get a casket with Dork’s likeness propped up, towed by Sasquatch.
It was thought it might be too much. So, it didn’t happen.
But, Dork lives on in our memories, as he has for the Becker family, Tom Berry and his daughter Kim Wheeler, who raised him and tried to hunt him down until his demise last December.
Freedom Days is gone, but there will be two more community celebrations coming up in the near future.
Clearwater’s Heritage days will run the first weekend of August, followed by the Palmer event in September. It’s billed as the biggest and best little town parade around.
I remember covering the Palmer parade many years ago and met the farmer gentleman who was serving as Grand Marshal of the parade.
After I took the picture of him and his beautiful Lady Grand Marshal, he pulled a flask out of his bib overalls and asked if I’d like a sip.
Palmer hospitality.
I declined, but he was sure having fun.
Get involved, readers. You’ll have fun. (No, I didn’t mean with a flask.)
Happy 4th of July, readers. Remember, for a moment, the wonderful country we have been privileged to live in.
Hang up your flag and pause for a moment. We don’t need to wait for Thanksgiving to give thanks.
Bless America, for all its faults and frailties. From those faults and frailties we gain our strength.
Democracy isn’t easy.
But it’s best.
