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Editorial
Busy weekend great way to celebrate season
Friday, August 9, 2013
Wasn't it just last week we were eating watermelon and watching the Fourth of July fireworks with friends?
Blink your eyes once, and now it's time for back-to-school shopping and looking forward to the fall sports season.
But let's not write off the summer just yet. While we're enjoying the nice weather, let's take time to congratulate everyone who's involved with this weekend's entertaining community activities.
Regional Editor Connie Jo Discoe is putting on many miles covering them, including a trip today to the Burton's Bend Music Festival (http://bit.ly/13oJr01), taking place Friday and Saturday in Holbrook. This is the fourth annual event, featuring Kiwi singer/yodeler Roger Tibbs, and young Arapahoe singer/songwriter Alexa Whipple, plus performances by Cindy Boehler and Three 4 All, This Side of Sunday, Tex & Mary Schutz, The Becka Snider Cloggers, Van Bradley & A Little Bit of Heaven, a special Young Entertainers' Showcase and many other activities.
More music will be on tap at the Haigler Bluegrass Festival, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday in the Haigler Village Park. The event will feature the Monocle Band of Boulder, Colorado, and Two Bricks Short from Burlington, Colorado.
Closer by, Indianola will be hopping with a full slate of Old Settlers' Day activities Saturday, and on Sunday, the Bum Malleck Memorial Threshing event will start at noon on Sunday (follow the signs south of Indianola). Modern-day farmers should gain a new appreciation for their forbearers by witnessing threshing with steam power, corn shelling with mule power and demonstrations of many pieces of antique machinery.
Congratulations to the coalition of young leaders and local businesses who are presenting a new event, an old-fashioned drive-in movie night, at the Red Willow County Fairgrounds at 8:45 p.m. Saturday with Space Jam, and Footloose following, shown on an innovative inflatable drive-in screen.
But it doesn't end there, with MNB's second Hot Summer Nights concert Thursday night in Norris Park with Anthony and the Anamals.
The next thing you know, it will be time for McCook's big Heritage Days celebration.
The weather looks great for this weekend, so let's all get out, enjoy the festivities -- and don't forget to say thanks to all the volunteers that make them possible.