Brewster July 4th was a booming success

BREWSTER – As entries started arriving to get in line at Legion Park early Tuesday morning, July 4, it looked like the combination of a mid-week parade combined with cherry harvest in full swing might reduce the number of folks attending the Independence Day opening event.

As both the temperature and tempo rose toward the 10 a.m. start time, spectators started to fill the sidewalk and excited children were full of anticipation for the treats and prizes they knew were coming. From the Main Street morning parade route to Columbia Cove Park and the evening’s fireworks show, the number of visitors swelled. As launch time approached at 10 p.m. the park was full of revelers and the handful of food vendors waited on long lines of customers.

The parade sponsored by P1FCU credit union attracted more than a dozen entrants that looked like many more with multiple vehicles, trailers, and marchers in many. Entrants included:

Three Rivers Hospital (that brought its tame T-Rex), Brewster Boys and Girls Club, Gomez Lawn Care, Brewster Harvest Foods, O’Connell Drilling, Los Paisas Store, Brewster Harvest Foods, Night Jackal Transport (Twisp), Gebbers Farms, Jose’s Lawn Care, Combat Veterans International Motorcycles, Labrie Racing with the Advance Unlimited hydro, Okanogan Motorcycle Enthusiasts, Adolfo Shagun and Camperos’ Dancing Horses, Ron Johnson and his ’66 red Mustang.

There was something for every age from the very young to super seniors on this Brewster 4th of July.

‘It’s kinda like an outdoor concert, only free,” said one young woman in the company of several friends, “only here you get to have your own space and - look around you – there’s not a bad seat in the house.”