THREE DINOSAURS joined Flinstone Lounge’s float entry during Aug. 4th’s Heritage Festival parade. (Photos by Penny Leuthard.)
FORTY VINTAGE VEHICLES ined up in Rejoice Lutheran Church’s parking lot for attendees of all ages to admire and dream about.(Photo by Penny Leuthard.)
Clearwater Heritage Festival Board president Brandii Thomas is pictured during the parade Friday, August 4 on Main Street in Clearwater. (Photo by Mary Nehring.)
FOUR-YEAR-OLD ISAAC JOHNSON of Clearwater tried his hand at controlling a fire house during the Fire Dept.’s Saturday Open House. (Photo by Penny Leuthard.)
SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Alexis Anderson practices her summersaults on the bungee trampoline during Friday’s Family Fun Fest. (Photo by Penny Leuthard.)
THE CLEARWATER CLEAR LAKE LEGION COLOR GUARD was greeted by cheers and clapping as they kicked off Clearwater Heritage Festival’s parade Friday night. (Photo by Penny Leuthard.)
Clearwater Legion Color Guard members awaited the start of the Clearwater Heritage Days parade. (Photo by Mary Nehring.)
Clearwater Legion Riders were ready to entertain the crowd, promote their Homeless Vets Run event, and load up the kids along the parade route with candy. Mel Weise, Mark Himmelspach, Paul Curtis, Cuz Grant, Gary Grant (GG), Claudia Aslakson, Tanya Olin, Diane Sterling, Mike Eddie, Pat Drew, and Winky Glen Winkelman (Winky). (Photo by Mary Nehring.)
PARKER FORD gets help from his dad, Trevor, to feed the pony at the Family Fun Fest’s petting zoo. (Photo by Penny Leuthard.)
KIDS PRESS IN CLOSE as they raptly learn about snakes and other creatures during Clearwater Library’s Zoo Mobile event on Saturday. (Photo by Penny Leuthard.)
Clearwater Festival a roaring success!
By Penny Leuthard, Contributing Writer
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August 17th, 2023 @ 10:15 am
Clearwater’s first ever Heritage Days Festival was a smash hit last week, with people enjoying all the numerous activities happening all over town throughout the five day event period.
From children and adult presentations and activities to the parade and fireworks, the festival had something for everyone. Like history? The event featured a vintage car and snowmobile show as well as an historical presentation. Like animals? The Zoo-Mobile, petting zoo, and the Silver Bullet Club’s horses in the parade had it covered. Looking for music? It, too, was featured throughout, including Thursday’s Music in the Park, Friday’s live band at Lion’s Park, and the Homeless Vets Run Fundraiser’s street dance on Saturday.
Attendees enjoyed all of those and more, with people everywhere talking about how much fun they were having.
