Tag: Independence Day
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Who shuts down a July 4 parade?
Isn’t there anyone who can help this belligerent brewer? At noon tomorrow, July 4, a City of Madison fire truck will lead a parade of kids on bicycles circling the streets surrounding Orchard Ridge Park. Parents will run alongside their youngest, pedaling furiously on tiny bikes, many with training wheels, decorated with red, white &…
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Our family remembers Independence Day
Feed the priest! Reprinted and adapted from previous years Dad was always proud of being born on Independence Day. What are the odds? — two of his sisters were also born on the Fourth! So it was natural that July 4 was occasion for a family reunion. Introduced the Lovely Lisa to one such on Uncle Cy’s…
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Our family remembers Independence Day
Reprinted and adapted from 2020 My father was proud he was born on the July 4, 1919. Jerome Blaska served in WW2, was elected to the state legislature where he chaired the Highway Committee building the Interstate, and raised six children with our mother, Helen (Curl). He was also proud of his field crops. One of nine siblings,…
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Celebrating the red, white & blue. And orange!
Almost no fireworks! Does anything say God Bless America better than an Independence Day parade on a hot Wisconsin summer day? Again this year, the Orchard Ridge neighborhood here on the SW side of Madison WI knows how to celebrate America’s birthday. (Mike Thomsen is the best association president!) Again in 2021, a big red…
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Good neighbors in a great country celebrate America’s birthday
Some others can’t get past their own hate A bleat from the Madison fire truck’s siren announced the beginning of the annual Independence Day parade in the Orchard Ridge neighborhood shortly after 11:30 Wednesday morning. There followed a squadron of children pedaling their tiny bikes, mom and dad pushing infants in strollers. All decorated in…