Boom times: La Conner celebrates 4th in fine style
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July 10, 2019
LIGHTING UP SEA AND SKY – If it’s the 4th of July, there are fireworks – and in La Conner, lots of them, long through the night. The town’s show lasted 15 minutes. The rockets’ red glare was not the only reflection on the water. – Photo by Nancy Crowell
La Conner bared its soul during Fourth of July festivities here on Thursday.
Make that Souls.
A string of Kia Souls, the hip boxy car designed for millennials, was among the highlights of a colorful, briskly-paced 15-minute downtown Independence Day Parade, which set in motion a full-day local celebration of America’s 243rd birthday.
One of the Souls carried the company’s popular mascot – a hamster said to symbolize Kia’s goal of delivering motorists from the humdrum of life on an exercise wheel.
There were other well received entries in the annual parade’s animal-themed divis...
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