Parade short and fun

Everybody loves a parade! Lining the streets of La Conner amid stars and stripes banners, sparkling sequined hats and red, white and blue garlands, ties, leis, vests, pins, capes and drapes, newborns in slings to nonagenarians in patriotically bedecked wheelchairs came out for the annual Fourth of July parade. This was my fourth July 4th parade here and I loved it - All 10 minutes of it.

Sitting in front of Caffe Jubilee, thanks to a quick thinking Frank Scott, we lined chairs on the sidewalk, just daring drivers to try and park in front of us. La Conner’s 1941 Ford American-LaFrance fire engine led the way, followed by Miss Liberty – our own Mayor Ramon Hayes -looking good in a tiara.

We had lots of kids, thanks to Kiwanis and the co-op preschool; lots of seniors, thanks to the La Conner Retirement Inn; and lots of animals thanks to a local rescue dog shelter and Terry Sapp and Jean Eagleston’s Hoehn Bend Farm – love those “dinkeys”!