Save the 4th of July Festival!
This is the last year that several key leaders of the Boyne City 4th of July Committee will be organizing the community's largest and most popular festival. They are inviting community members to attend a meeting that will introduce potential volunteers to how the festival is organized and what jobs need to be filled.
Committee co-chairs Liz Kroondyk and Ann Parks have both worked on the committee for 34 and 36 years, respectively. If new people don't come forward, this could be the last year that the event as we know it will continue. "We'd like to have people shadow us this year so they can take over our jobs next year, Kroondyk said. "Some of us have been doing this for over 30 years. It's just time for us to slow down. We need new blood, new energy, new ideas."
Kroondyk says the committee is well organized, jobs are divvied up among a number of people, and they have adequate start-up funds in the bank. "It's really kind of easy and it doesn't take a lot of hours and not necessarily all on the 4th of July. We can show new people how to keep it going."
The main jobs that need to be filled are parade coordinator, running race coordinator, sponsor coordinator and fireworks security/safety coordinator. But the festival needs help in all areas if it is to survive and thrive in the future. Here is the tentative schedule for this year's festival .
> Potential volunteers are invited to the committee's first meeting of the year at 7 p.m. Monday, April 23, in the City Commission Chambers of Boyne City Hall. If you can't attend that meeting or would like more information about how you can help, you are invited to contact Liz Kroondyk at (231) 675-5014 or kroon@charter.net, or Ann Parks at (231) 675-3404 or parksa8@yahoo.com.
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