American Bank & Trust "Most Patriotic" float - July 3,2010
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
DUKE WENZEL
TRUE DAKOTAN EDITOR
The Fourth of July Parade held Saturday, July 3, was a big success with over 65 entries. Judy Crist and Murt Wenzel were judges with the winners receiving $25 in Bonus Bucks. The results are:
Most Patriotic, American Bank & Trust; Most Humorous, Pete Bult; (shown at right) Best Horse, Guinn Family; Best Golf Cart or Four-Wheeler, Camden and Marion Jost; Best Antique Tractor, Toby Kleppin; Best Antique Car, Frank and Donna Bult; Best Antique Truck, Tom and Vinetta Shonley; Best Walking Entry, Roger and Sandy Andersen family; Best Overall, American Bank & Trust.
Walt Borkowski drives a vintage tractor, pulling the American Legion colorguard - July 3, 2010
American Legion's "Avenue of Flags" -- Flags once were casket flags for area veterans, now used on special occasions for this purpose. July 3, 2010
Gerald Horsley and family in their carriage. July 3, 2010
Avera Weskota Memorial Medical Center/Chamber of Commerce 5K run winners. Left to right: Todd Vlieger, Drew Kraft, Curtis Evans, Mindy Kraft, Steve Vlieger, Alvin Uecker, Marlys Thurow, and Jim Schmidt. Not pictured: Katie Hiemstra. True Dakotan photo/Duke Wenzel
Avera Weskota Memorial Medical Center/Chamber of Commerce family fun walk - Juy 3, 2010
THE GUINN FAMILY is pictured leading the horse entries down main street during the Fourth of July parade. The family won best horse entry in the parade. Many of the other horse entries are shown in the background. The overall parade had over 65 great entries.
MR. FARMALL Hub Kieser brings his Super M down the parade route, one of the many vintage tractors in the annual Fourth of July parade last weekend. Hub runs a repair shop near the north end of Springs where he works on most anything with wheels but will always have a soft spot in his heart for the Farmalls he works on.
LLOYD KRAFT and his wife Margaret make their way down the parade route in a 1929 Chevrolet truck that was purchased new in 1929 by Lloyd’s father, the late Immanuel Kraft. The parade was held Saturday, July 3 in Wessington Springs. They were also celebrating Margaret’s Fourth of July birthday which was going to be observed the following day. The truck is a common and favorite entry in local parades.
MANY AREA PEOPLE as well as visitors enjoyed root beer floats and sundaes being sold by the United Methodist Church members before and after the July 3rd parade. Some of the group chats as they enjoy their cool treats in front of Mettler’s Locker and the Senior Citizen Center.
PETE BULT “ME AND OLD RED AIN’T AS GOOD AS WE USED TO BE”, TOOK home first prize for most humorous with his old Massey Harris tractor and hay buck with a sign that reads “Me and Old Red ain’t as good as we use to be.” There are probably a lot of miles on both of them.
"Dayle Winter drives while Jack Ferguson "plays" the calliape" THE SPRINGS UNIT of the James Valley Fire Crew are a fixture at most all of the local parades. They are shown above in their vintage fire engine equipped with calliope at the Fourth of July parade held Saturday. The Huron crew also made an appearance.
DR. TOM DEAN, a long-time local physician and cancer survivor lends his support to the Relay for Life parade entry last Saturday. The Relay for Life will be held August 14 at the Springs ball park.
A GUST OF WIND interrupted the view of the Fourth of July parade for the Cecil and Doris Deneke family. An upturned umbrella is pictured with Marsha Deneke and Dusty Smith from Gillette, WY who was visiting across the street at the Duke Wenzel home as they help keep it from blowing away. Cecil is pictured at right.
LOCAL RACE CAR driver, Springs Mayor, and county highway superintendent Greg Vavra drives his #0 race car down the Fourth of July weekend parade route. You can see him racing at the State Fair speedway most any weekend.
- KIRSTEN HEIM WAS THE OVERALL winner at the annual Wessington Springs Fourth of July Turtle Races, held at Weskota Manor Avera on Sunday afternoon. Kirsten, shown above with her dad, Chris Heim, began the competition in the five and under age group and advanced all the way to become the grand prize winner. There were many competitors this year, up from about 10 a year ago. Prizes were donated by Weskota Manor Avera and J&M Enterprises and the event was enjoyed by a lot of kids, parents, grand parents and Weskota Manor Avera residents. Ronda Brunsen and her son Trinity coordinated the event.
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