The Kenai Princess Lodge hosted this years holiday celebration including a parade. Honorary Grand Marshal Sue Simpson led the procession.
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The Kenai Princess Lodge hosted this years holiday celebration including a parade. Honorary Grand Marshal Sue Simpson led the procession. |
By Mona Painter
Turnagain Times
Cooper Landing Correspondent
4th of July Parade, a fun time for all
Kenai Princess Wilderness Lodge star-spangled employees and friends rode on floats or marched along with flags waving, balloons bobbing, and candy liberally thrown to all the bystanders young and old. Honorary Grand Marshal Sue Simpson led the procession standing in the bed of a white pickup decorated with red, white, and blue streamers and balloons. A stuffed chair was placed in the pickup but Sue said she was used to riding in the back of a truck from working on the ranch in Oklahoma and more comfortable standing behind the cab and holding onto the framework. Keith Doroff drove one of the Cooper Landing Fire Dept. trucks, Lorraine Temple marched with her sled dogs and puppies, and Paula Iverson’s downsized RV—a car with a tent on the top—drew applause. After the parade made two circles around the loop driveway, lodge manager Dan Michels scooped ice cream cones for everyone. Mary Fort echoed the sentiments of many when she said “it was a fun time!”
Babe Osowiecki remembered
A memorial for Ludwig “Babe” Osowiecki begins at 2 p.m., Sunday, July 20 at Kenai Lake Baptist Church with hearty refreshments following at the community hall on Bean Creek Road. Babe’s wife Jan and their children, Jeff and Betsy, Beth, Jonathan, and grandson Samuel are here from Connecticut. Jonathan moved back to Cooper Landing recently. Babe was a deacon at KLBC and a former Cooper Landing Community Club president. The family moved to Thomaston, CT 22 years ago, but Babe spent summers in the Landing running his campground, and the family was often here to visit. He died suddenly shortly after last Christmas.
CLES open house and much more
Cooper Landing Emergency Services open house is July 20 from noon to 4 p.m. at the public safety facilities site across from the post office on Snug Harbor Road. Kate Thomas’ Community Crier sent via email includes this information. “Come one, come all and see for yourself the improvements your donations, grant funds, and hard work have brought to our service this past year. There will be EMS and Fire displays and activities, blood pressure testing, Firewise information, and much more. Free hot dogs, hamburgers, potato salad, sodas, and juice.”
Bear resistant containers are in
Another shipment of three sizes of bear resistant containers are in and still being sold for $50 subsidized by a grant, for the first one. They do work but some folks found out the hard way that bagging garbage so that it could be removed bag by bag to transport to the Dumpsters was a lot easier than trying to lift a full 95 gallon can. Email the Wildlife Conservation Community Program people at cooperlandingwildlifeprogram@gmail.com to get a container.
Seniors breakfast planned Aug. 2
Cooper Landing Senior Citizens Corp. Inc. volunteers are putting on another of their famous pancake fund raising breakfasts beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 2 at the community hall. Bill Fort and Ed Holsten have been putting up the small greenhouse for resident seniors at Eagles View.