 It was another scorcher for the annual Fourth of July parade in Forest Lake Saturday morning. Thousands crowded the sidewalks as temperatures reached 88 degrees. The parade lasted two hours, heading east down Broadway Avenue and eventually winding around south on Lake Street. Click here to view a slideshow from the festivities.
(Photo by Clint Riese)
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 Nothing says Fourth of July like a big bag of cotton candy at the carnival. Kylie Hawkinson and little brother Ellias of Shafer made the fluffy treat their first stop at the downtown festivities Friday morning. The Fourth of July celebration is expected to bring thousands of visitors to Forest Lake through the weekend.
(Photo by Clint Riese)
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For us kids the Fourth of July was one of those looked-forward-to days
like Christmas and to the more mischievous of us, Halloween. But the
4th had its own special activities with the parades and fireworks. The
parade was special with the bands playing the patriotic tunes and the
march music popular at the time. Then there were the drill units and,
of course, the clowns with their antics and all the other things that
make a parade a parade.
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 Around Minnesota, Forest Lake High School’s FFA Chapter is known as one of the best. The chapter has the awards to prove it. Around Forest Lake, the chapter is known for its community service. Look in any direction and you may witness it. Those flower gardens at Triangle Park and at the high school? They are the chapter’s work. The annual Adopt A Family program each year at Christmas? That’s chapter work. The annual Veteran’s Day program at the high school? More chapter work.
Bob Marzolf, Saturday’s parade grand marshal, spent time last week working on a wedding floral arrangement for Amanda Melhorn Baumann, a former student who is now an ag teacher. (Photo by Cliff Buchan)
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 The waiting is over for the 86th annual Independence Day celebration in Forest Lake. The 2010 event opens today (Thursday) and runs for four days through Sunday, July 4. Because the 4th of July falls on Sunday, Post 225 has made one major change in its normal schedule of events. In respect of Sunday morning church worship services, the parade will
not take place on the 4th of July as is the case in most years. Instead, the parade will move to 10 a.m., Saturday, July 3
Charlie O will perform his annual Fireworks Concert at the Lakeside Memorial Park Gazebo in downtown Forest Lake at 8 p.m., Sunday, July 4.
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During Monday’s meeting, the Forest Lake City Council finally awarded the contract for a key downtown project with construction slated to begin the week of July 12. Six bids were received and opened on June 25, said City Engineer Paul Hornby.
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 A disagreement with the Minnesota Racing Commission over legal
technicalities has further clouded an already foggy situation for
Running Aces Harness Park.
Will the harness carts be allowed to keep running at Running Aces Harness Park in Columbus? The three-year-old race track and card club faces some interesting days in the months ahead as a foreclosure sale scheduled on July 9 may result in a legal tangle that could result in the track being closed under state racing commission guidelines.
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What was for months a civil investigation is now a criminal case.
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