And good morning. We're going to talk fourth fest. David Mack is with me this morning. He's on the fourth fest committee. He's involved in everything. I know you got you I don't know
where you find all the time. You give tours at SE Johnson. You are our fourth district order. You are working with fourth fest. You travel around the
state all weekend. And I run a daycare center called grandpa's daycare service. And I only have two special. I know.
Your grandparents. Your grandchildren. I know. I follow you. And also, are you still doing the the column?
I haven't done it. It missed. Yeah, it's been hit or miss lately. We moved it over to the Racine County. I and I just have not
sat down. And it's something to back my mind because I got a lot of material to work with. Okay, so here's your choice. A little bit of rain or sunny and hot and highs in the 90s for the
July. A little bit of rain in the afternoon. Okay, so cool things down. But we can't have rain on the parade. And we can't have rain for the fireworks.
We've had it a couple times where it rained while we were waiting for the fireworks. And it kind of dampered the crowd. We didn't have as
big of a turnout as we would have liked, but still got the fireworks off. I don't know what the fireworks have ever been canceled because of rain.
I do know one year I was driving in the parade. I wasn't in Alderman yet. And I had a couple of Alderman in my car. I believe it was late.
Ron Hart who just passed away last week and Michael Shields. So they're sitting in the back of the convertible. We get to the golden Rondelle, which is the official end of the parade.
And I start to put the hood up on the convertible. And boom, it's just pouring rain. Good thing those guys were in the front of the parade. And but I'm sure quite a few people got wet.
And we used to broadcast the parade on radio. And to do that, we had this what they call a Marty pole. It's giant pole. They got the signal back to the station 25 feet high. And one morning we set it up. And there was a big bolt of lightning. I said, get that thing down. It's the tallest thing around here. Get it down. I don't need to be struck by lightning.
I was going through some old pictures and WRGN had a Northside location on Main Street for quite a while. I did a bank building.
Which one you're talking about the Rose and residents. Oh, yeah, that location. Yeah, we had a lot. Yeah, right on my front lawn.
That was good. It worked out real well on some pictures of you shoving a microphone in the face of Paul Ryan and David Mack and other people.
You were writing the card. Everybody else was walking. Yeah. Well, that was my job. I had to write in the car. Yeah, right. That's good.
Yes, I was talking to the parade marshal. You could have walked. Yeah, parade marshal. Yeah, I'm not walking this year.
You should. You should walk in the behind the car. That's this WRGN on it because you're the local personality, right? Well, Lou Gragani is going to drive his classic car. He's got these old cars.
And you're going to sit in the passenger seat waving. What you should do is WRGN down rose and you should walk like all the politicians do.
You know, I was just talking to the mayor the other day he was in here and he's going to walk the whole route. It's like two points.
Usually he writes in that little electric steering. He's walking. He's walking. Oh, good for him. But I don't know 90 degrees. You better have a lot of water with you. Yeah, because you're really going to have his little sweater vest in his blue blazer on.
So yeah, that's going to be right. He's going to get a little warm. Now the good thing is that Charlie in the morning. So it won't be 90 degrees in the morning. It's going to be still hot and so it'll be hot.
It'll be hot. It'll be hot. Okay. So I heard I was at the drivers meeting the other day and they said there's 140 units this year.
I had not heard the latest comp, but that is a lot. That's more. It's usually like 11112. I get to 140 civic pride.
That's a lot of people now. Normally it's about a two and a half hour to three hour parade. Yeah, it'll still be, but yeah, you know what takes a lot of time to get those units moving.
You know, we asked people to be down there and ready by 730. And then we you're looking like what I got to be down there at 730.
I get here at 530 in the morning. 730 is sleeping in late. Now I'm good. And then, you know, in your cars by 830 because, you know, we're getting ready to roll.
But those are those are the units up front. There's a whole bunch way in the back that they don't get off the parade route, I think, until like 11 o'clock.
So it's for some it's a lot of waiting for others. Boom. They're they're out the gate out the shoot right away. And but it's logistically, it's a lot of moving pieces.
We have four or five side streets where we stage units. And then you have people that are working on site state, site streets, making sure everybody's in place.
And then when you start to get a move, do you have like those flight controllers, FAA, what do they call it as a flight controllers? Yeah, yeah.
That are kind of directing traffic and, you know, they're pointing over here and, you know, move over here and wait, you hold this one goes and, you know, sometimes they're alternating because you have this big long units on main street, but you have the smaller units on the site streets.
Well, you might have a unit on the side street coming out, but then you got to get the bigger unit on main street to follow behind it. So I mean, it's a lot of orchestration that goes into getting this going.
And then we have two guys or gals or a mixture that stand on main and ghoul and their whole job is to direct in. All right, you know, because we might have a unit coming off a ghoul street and then went off of main street or there might be two.
And it's like, okay, you go now, you go and they're the parade starters and they just, they're like the conductor.
I watched it and it's one thing if you just have cars to deal with, but some of these groups have a lot of students or a lot of people that are going to walk, right?
And they're like little flies buzzing around and you got to get them together and pay attention, right? And you know, people are excited there, you know, I'm going to be in the parade.
And I understand that, but you got to get together, you got to pay attention and they're drifting off down the line somewhere and they're going back and forth.
I saw that last time and I would, I'd be the person on the bullhorn yelling at them screaming at them, but people have patience now.
That's because you're a curmudgeon. That's right. I'm a grump. So last year, we get out of our car and I'm standing there.
This is a, I forget the name of the car, but it's an old from the 1950s. It's an old car.
And it looks a mint condition. I mean, Lou Regani takes good care of these cars.
And I see green dripping out the radiator onto the right by the curb, but it's really coming out.
And I say, Lou, come here. I think what is this coming loose? I don't worry about that.
That's what he said. He said, I overfilled the bucket. So it's just coming out.
I said, well, why don't you even coming out of the car? I mean, it shouldn't be and it's coming out a lot.
I say, we can all well make it. Yeah. And yeah, that's all.
And I'm staring at this green and just oozing out of the car. And it's a clutch car and a clutch car.
You know, when you're dealing with a manual transmission of the parade, that's a lot of shifting.
So a little, little tidbit for you back when I was in college, I had the number one political talk show in
Kenosha on cable TV. Lou Regani was my producer and did a bang up job.
And so we get an I scored an interview with Morton Downey, Jr.
Who was going to be appearing at the Riverside. Remember Morton?
I remember him. He's the guy that yelled at people while smoking a cigarette.
So we're up in the green room at the Riverside.
And we're doing this interview with them. And it was Dennis Miller, your ten of it.
She was on the Kenosha school board at one point, myself and Lou Regani.
Lou brings the camera. We're going remote, except we're just going to tape it.
And he couldn't get the camera working. And it was a phenomenal interview because Morton Downey, Jr.
He just was his private or persona was much different than his TV persona actually turned out to be a great guy and everything.
He was a songwriter. I mentioned one of his songs that was a hit.
He started to play it on the guitar and sing it for us.
And it's like I would have won the Jones inner cable award that year just for this interview.
And then when we get back, Lou figures out that he forgot to flip a switch or something on it.
And it's like, and his father was a big orchestra leader, Morton Downey, a senior.
Oh, yeah. Oh, I thought you met Lou Regani, no, no, no, no, senior.
Yeah. He was a big orchestra leader.
Yeah. Okay. So back to the parade.
All right. Now he kicks a lot of stuff to kick to talk about.
We're going to get to everything. You sure?
We're running out of time. We're running out.
We're running out when I say we run out.
Okay. Kicks off with a lot of motorcycles.
Well, at eight thirty, no, eight, no.
Pray kicks off at nine.
No, they're pre-Prayed. I'm talking about pre-Prayed.
A lot of noise.
Yeah, that's usually at eight thirty.
Oh, is that eight thirty?
Yeah.
And that is. You're right. It's a lot of noise.
It's a stuff that we're moving down the parade route quickly.
So it's motorcycles. I think they throw the antique cars in there.
Fire engines. Fire engines.
All the stuff with loud tractors.
J I case is a number of their tractors.
So the pre-Prayed is kind of kind of exciting,
but it's not the parade. It's the pre-Prayed.
You know, I described that to people who don't live here, my friend.
They say, what is a pre-Prayed?
Well, it's the parade before the parade.
Well, I don't understand it. Why don't you just call it the parade?
I said, listen, don't involve me in this.
I don't know how even that started, but as long as I can remember,
we've had a pre-Prayed.
And then there's a gap.
Yeah.
A little gap.
There shouldn't be much of a gap, but yeah.
Okay, let's talk about what's on your list.
All right.
So the Racine Raiders this year are going to be our honorary grand marshals.
Yeah.
You know, we try to pick somebody significant and occasionally
we'll have a group that's selected, but in the past we've had
Karan Butler.
We've had Loroi Butler.
I think we had Joey and Anna LaGath.
So we've had a number of notables.
Oh, I remember coming out to the staging area one year because Barbara McNair
was the grand marshall.
Oh, wow.
The actor's in.
And she was in an Elvis movie.
Which Elvis movie was she in?
Oh, but don't don't tell me.
It must have been one of his later ones.
If I list it, we know it.
I know it.
Okay.
It wasn't the trouble with girls.
It wasn't Charo.
I'm thinking it was later was a little, a little, a little.
It wasn't that.
It wasn't.
It wasn't.
It was.
Oh, change of habit.
Yep.
Change of habit with Mary Tathamore and Barbara McNair.
Right.
That was it.
So I found a great picture once of Elvis, Mahalia Jackson and Barbara McNair.
And Mahalia Jackson asked Elvis if he would do a benefit for her.
And he said, yeah, but I think she said she knew he never would because Colonel
wanted to authorize it.
And he didn't do it.
But I said to Barbara McNair, anyone that's Ben and Elvis movie is great in my book.
You know, back to the parade.
I noticed some of these bands and I'm not sure if they did in this parade.
They wear these heavy uniforms.
Yeah.
I mean, really wall in uniforms.
They're really 90 degrees.
That's going to be tough to marching parade.
You know, the last couple of years, I've noticed that some of the bands ditch the uniforms.
But we also have seen the band shrink after COVID.
I think a lot of these marching bands lost some momentum.
But we have the Badger band coming back and they are fun.
And they were shorts and a red t-shirt.
But those guys and gals will get down and lay on the street and play their instruments.
And they run all over it.
Very energetic and put on a great show.
But let's, by the way, with the dogs in the show, I always feel bad for these dogs in the parade.
The pavement could be hot for one thing.
And you got to keep these dogs hydrated.
Yep.
By the way, if you come to the Rosenhouse, we always put water out in front of the house for people who have dogs walking.
Not in the parade, but you know, on the sidewalk.
We always keep a water bin out there for the dogs.
Three, too, no charge.
Well, I've always been waiting for down roads and run a bottle of cold water out to me, but it never happens.
All right.
Hello, Jeff Cole is our Mark Mr. Racine icor spirit of Racine award winner.
Mark icor has a program here on WRGN, which I frequently co-hosted with him when he would invite me to do so.
And Mark was known as Mr. Racine.
Yep.
He promoted everything Racine and so after he passed away, his pastor came to me and said,
we have some money left over from Mark's estate.
We'd like to make a donation to fourth best.
Would you consider creating a Mark icor spirit of Racine award?
And I was the president of the board at the time.
I brought it back and sure.
It's not an award we give out every year per se, but we've had some, I think, exceptional people.
Our first award winner was a guy by the name of Dustin and he started ask me why I love Racine.
And he just reminded me of Mark in the way he promoted Racine and everything positive.
And Jeff Cole is one of those guys where you'll see him pushing a wheelbarrow down Main Street.
And he has it filled with a bunch of goods and he sells raffle tickets.
So I told the grandkids.
Oh, look at that homeless guy.
So when they were younger, they walked up to him and said, Grandpa, it's a homeless guy.
Would you like a sandwich, sir?
So we're at a, we're at a party the other day.
And Jeff Cole shows up and he has his granddaughter.
So my six year old grandson, Jeff says, do you know who I am?
And Tanner looks and says, yeah, you're the homeless guy.
And then Tanner was in the bouncy house playing with Jeff's granddaughter.
And he didn't know it was the granddaughter, but he says to her, did you know your dad's homeless?
David Mack are all there in the fourth district and also on the fourth fest committee.
I know as you came empty handed today with no young, young donuts or anything.
I never bring donuts, but I brought two phones this time instead of one.
So I could hear you saying, get off your phone.
You know, in all the years I've been here, I don't think I've ever eaten in the building,
except for a meeting we had and they sort of lunch.
I don't think I've ever eaten anything in this building.
That's wrong.
What's that?
That's wrong.
No, I just, I just know all you have.
When was that?
When I used to do election night coverage, I brought in a couple pizzas one night and you were munching on.
No, probably because it was past my dinner time.
But when I work in mornings for all these years, I just don't eat.
They bring donuts and everything. I just don't, I don't eat them.
Any good.
What's that?
I said, very good.
Yeah, it doesn't look like it looks like I've been eating them, but I really haven't.
Well, you know, I went through a bunch of pictures some over the years.
And you have a much slimmer face and you did back in the day.
Well, that's because I haven't even got a haircut for a while.
My mother used to say, it looked like the wild man of Borneo.
Get a haircut.
Although we were at a party the other day.
So I said, Don Rosenwax, I said, are you Don Rosen, the famous radio personality from WRJN?
And he gets a smile.
I says, well, yes, I am.
I said, could I get a picture with you, sir?
So I took a selfie with Don Rosen.
And I'm six foot tall.
I'm not necessarily short, but I looked short.
In this picture next to Don Rosen, the guy and unfortunately, you can't see him.
The guy's like seven, two, three hundred and twenty pounds, fit buff the whole bit with curly hair and looks like a famous actor.
So when I didn't shave, my mother used to say, what's your shave?
It looked like you escaped from Attica.
My mother always drew a picture.
All right, so we're talking about fourth test.
The big parade is coming up this Friday and the good part about it.
It's on a Friday.
Oh, yeah.
So Saturday and Sunday, most people just have the day off.
The bad party is people like it when it's on a Thursday because of the day called Friday.
Saturday Sunday and they've come up with some phony excuse to get up on Monday.
And they make it into a mini vacation.
But it's on Friday, which is good for me because I have to get up the next morning.
Yes, I love that.
Exactly.
And Thursday night on July 3rd, we have our party on...
Monument Square?
Monument Square.
We have Pat McCurdy, a well-known, very popular musician coming in to provide entertainment.
We'll be selling raffle tickets.
And Jeff Cole will be pushing his wheelbarrow around and giving some of the proceeds from his raffle tickets to fourth test.
That evening.
And so it's just a fun night.
We kind of created that years ago as an opportunity, you know, people have friends and family coming
in from out of town for the fourth of July.
And, you know, what do we do?
You know, let's do something.
And so we decided to throw this party on the square, invite people to come down.
Here's some good music.
We'll have some food trucks there.
We'll have liquid refreshments.
And just it's family-friendly.
I bring the kids every year.
They run around and climb on Monument Square.
And it's just a good time.
And it helps to fund fourth test because it is one of our fundraisers talking about funding fourth test.
It costs a lot of money to put on a parade.
And you're thinking, why does it cost a lot of money?
Well, there's a lot of moving pieces.
We have to pay to televised separate.
And people have asked year after year, you know, is it going to be on TV?
So we do that.
The golf carts that you see us riding around in those cost money.
We have to rent radios, those cost money.
Some of the attractions in out of state ban, marching ban cost money because they need help, you know, getting here.
And they come on big buses and stuff like that.
And it's not fair for them to fundraise, you know, to have to go someplace.
So, you know, some of these things do cost money.
So, we're raising money throughout the year.
You guys were pruning our golf outing that we had recently.
We had a party down the street from your house.
It was a black party to raise money.
But you can also go online.
WWW.
You don't need the W's anymore.
Just to get it.
Fourth fest dot org.
And fourth fest is spelled out.
It's an actual number four.
What is it?
Yes.
Fourth fest dot org.
So, four TH.
Best?
Yes.
And you can donate online anytime, all day, all night.
We never shut down.
Like other internet services that shut down at seven o'clock.
Yeah.
And midnight.
So, go online.
And then on parade day, we have people driving around with barrels.
And we ask people to reach deep into their pocket.
Put a $100 bill in there.
Put a $50 bill in there.
Put a $20 bill in there.
Keep going.
Keep going.
If your kid throws some pennies in there, some quarters, we'll take it all.
Bring your, uh, bring your change jar from home, your swear jar, whatever it is.
And help us fund the parade each year by donating.
Money that we raise, uh, this year, not only goes to offset the expenses of this year's parade,
but it gives us a cushion for next year to be able to, um, to be able to, to fundraise.
I want to talk about, uh, before you do that, I, I want to do this really.
And then I keep forgetting to bring up.
If you are, if you're on the parade route, you cannot set up before 5 a.m.
That's, that's a thing.
Yeah.
It's not our parade rule.
It's a city rule.
Yeah.
You can't set up your older man.
And from somebody who lives on the parade route, uh, my wife is there.
She's looking at that.
We set up on our front lawn first.
And then five, four, three, two, move the chairs out at five a.m.
But the police will make you move.
They do go up and down Main Street.
And if you're set up before five o'clock, they say, move.
Come on.
You can't say, it's not fair to the people who live in the houses on Main Street.
Right.
Because if you're going to set up at three a.m., you know, people and they're noisy, you know,
they're not noisy like radios.
But you know, they're talking right outside your bed.
When they're talking or they're drinking and they're having a party and, and, you know,
so anyway, it is five a.m.
And they stick to that.
So if you're planning on setting up at four, they will make you move.
And they'll keep it.
They'll wait till you move too.
Pick up your stuff.
I think this here might try something different.
I'm going to stand outside Don Rosen's house at 459 a.m.
You can hit you with a water balloon if you do that.
And I'll see if I can beat his wife.
You know, see, I'll already be out in the sidewalk.
She's going to be out in the front porch.
And I'm going to get my blanket put down.
Boom.
I'm going to hit you with the holes.
And I'll have the grandkids there ready to sit on the blanket and stake our spot.
You know what?
There's a lot of room.
You're more than welcome.
Yeah.
We have relatives who come over.
And they, um, they're, we're a regular.
So we set, you know, a scope out.
We put chairs out there.
But there's plenty of room.
And, you know, even in front of our driveway, we let people sit there.
Because where we're going.
Right.
Can't they get it?
So, and people say, can we park in front of your, you know, sit our butts in front of your driveway?
Be my guest.
We're not going anywhere.
So, you know, take up the whole driveway.
So it's, you know, you got to be nice if you live on the street and everything.
Yeah.
Be kind.
And, um,
Go ahead.
What's the next?
All right.
So Mr. Fourth Fest.
Yesterday, we got the sad news that Paul shocked one of our long-time board members.
And Paul was a parade committee chair for 10 years running.
Um, he passed away.
We knew he had been sick.
A while back, we were told he was in hospice.
Although they said, oh, he's home and he's calling.
He was still sending his email saying, you know, I don't like this thing or I like this.
And so he was still giving us two cents and up until, you know,
a few weeks ago.
But, um,
Stanley, he passed away.
It would have been nice if he could have held on till after the fourth,
because he just lived in breathe.
You know, the fourth of July and our fourth fest board and in the parade.
Um, he was up there in age and he was still chalking the curb lines the day before the parade.
Because if you're in the parade, we would measure out on our side streets, the staging area.
Yeah.
Um, a certain amount of space for each entry.
And so we would chalk that out.
And that way, you knew where to park when you came in.
So, um, you know, he could have let somebody younger do that.
But he was still very, very engaged up until the end.
So we knew his health was declining.
He decided to resign from the board and we made him an emeritus board member.
So he could still have all the perks if he wanted to still come to a board meeting.
He could, but he was under no obligation to show up if he decided not to.
And the decision was made, um, our board president.
Jake Lovedell called me yesterday called a few other people.
What do you think about making Paul Mr. Fourth fest posthumously?
And I said, Jake, I think it's a great idea.
I think you should just make the decision unilaterally.
And anyone gives you trouble.
We'll, we'll have your back, you know, type of type of thing.
So we'll be honoring him that way.
Also, um, 1040, 70, um, we have our military flyover, which is always pretty cool.
You know, I forgot all about it last year.
I was so engrossed in the parade that I did not get a picture.
But I always try to get a picture.
It's hard to shoot that flyover though because it's coming through so fast.
And it's gone.
And then one year they miss a parade, uh, wrote completely.
Oh, I said, I'm watching.
And these planes are flying west of Main Street.
It's like, guys, guys, I'm waving my hands right now.
I go to those air guys.
And, uh, it's over here, over here, not over there.
But I know what they were saying to some dope is waving to us down to the streets.
Let's, let's drop a bomb on him.
Yeah.
David Macker fourth district.
All there is here.
And we are talking about the big fourth fest parade coming up here.
How long have you been on the fourth best committee?
Oh, my God.
On right after I in 19 ought six.
No.
Kind of interesting.
My dad was involved in the parade when I was a youngster.
He had a friend, Red Hughes, who had a bunch of horses and carriages.
And Red was asked to be in the parade every year with a number of horses.
He had carriages.
He had a stage coach.
And so Red Conan drive all these carriages by himself.
And he asked my dad every year to drive one of the carriages.
So my dad would be in the parade.
We'd get planned off to an aunt or uncle and we'd go to the parade.
And we'd waved my dad when we saw daddy, daddy.
But it was back then.
A lot of the dignitaries got to ride in horse and buggy, which I thought was kind of cool.
And you don't see that anymore.
Unfortunately, the only horses that we have are Latopatias.
The dancing horses.
Yeah, which are always a crowd favorite.
But you know, to have a horse and buggy a carriage in there would be kind of cool.
But when I was in high school, my dad worked for Shafer Pontiac.
And he was asked to coordinate the cars, the convertibles that they would loan.
And he says, you want to drive in the parade and get a couple buddies.
So I had some buddies that agreed to help.
We went to Shafer.
We got our cars.
And so the one year I got to drive less aspen.
Oh, yeah.
And then I drove Dennis Cornwolf.
And then the first year I worked for the county.
My dad said, you're going to be driving Dennis Cornwolf this year.
Oh boy.
And then the next year, Dennis is secretary calls.
She says, well, you be driving Dennis this year.
He'd like you to be his driver.
Oh, great.
When I was in the Milwaukee for the July parade one year, the movie pink Cadillac.
You just come out with Clint Eastwood.
They had the pink Cadillac from the movie The Units.
So I got to write in that.
The problem was it had a lot of problems to it.
It was not a not a fine working car.
And this thing was kept stalling.
And we got to the parade.
But it was the pink Cadillac.
Yeah, this is going to be do machines.
Stalled one year when we had it in the parade.
So anyway, so I drove in the parade for a number of years.
And when I became an alderman, I was in the parade.
And when I left being an alderman in April of 2011, I volunteered for the parade that July.
And then they asked me to be on the board in September, October timeframe.
So I've been on the board since 2011.
And as a result, I've been volunteer.
You know, working, working hands on with the parade.
But my volunteering with the parade actually went back to probably 87.
Oh, 1987.
Yeah, you guys did something that the New York Times newspaper did.
And I'll tell you what it was.
It was a big newspaper strike years ago.
I remember when it happened.
It had about five newspapers in New York at this time.
And they all went on strike except the New York Times.
Even though there were on strike printed one page.
That's right.
You mentioned that.
And they did it.
To keep the paper of record.
And they never missed an edition.
But only one page they put out.
You guys did that during COVID.
Right.
Next year will be our 90th.
Continuous.
Continuous parade.
And you did that on COVID because you kept it continuous.
You only had, I think, the client became down the street.
Well, there were about 10 entries.
Maybe see the mayor said we could only have, you know, maybe 10.
And we actually fudged it had maybe 15.
But we actually had Miss Wisconsin that year.
Very rare that we get Miss Wisconsin in the parade.
Because the Miss Wisconsin pageant is usually held later or much earlier.
And so they get booked elsewhere.
And Miss Wisconsin was from Racine.
It was, I figured what her name was.
But anyway.
So we had her.
We had the Wiener Montbeel.
We had the Kaleia P.
We had a few other things going on.
And we drove it through Racine.
It was a car ahead of it going.
The parade is coming.
The parade is coming.
Everybody is coming.
Everybody went out of their house.
There weren't people on the route.
But yeah, at least.
Yeah.
So then when we had another Miss Racine,
we had a few other things going on.
And we drove it through Racine.
It was a car ahead of it going.
And another Miss Racine that became Miss Wisconsin a few years back.
And I know her mom.
And I asked, is there any way we can get your daughter to be in the parade this year?
And so we had pay extra because it's handled separately.
And we were able to book Miss Wisconsin.
So we've had Miss Wisconsin a few years.
But this year, the pageant was just a couple of weeks ago.
Miss Racine was already scheduled to be in the parade.
So right now, I'm anticipating that Miss Wisconsin,
aka the former Miss Racine,
will be with us on Friday.
We also have a world war one battle tank,
which will be driving down the parade route.
And did I mention that donations are welcome anytime online.
We're open 24 seven, www.forthfest.org.
That's the number four with a TH.
Yes.
Number four with a TH in July 3rd.
We have our party on Monument Square with Pat McCurdy,
a very popular musician.
And so we encourage you to come on out on July 3rd.
Don't forget the fireworks on July 4th.
We have one of the best fireworks shows in the state.
I want a great viewing stand that kills at North Beach.
Yep.
Exactly.
That's a beautiful viewing.
And you can even see him from Don's backyard.
No, the trees.
No, you can't anymore.
The trees are so grown now.
Oh, no.
My wife said when she first moved into that house,
you could see the fireworks clear as day.
Now the trees are so big.
And we didn't, you know, then I cut,
we energy didn't chop them down yet.
But people say, when are the fireworks in Racine?
They're on July 4th and they're at dusk.
When's dusk?
At 930.
Yeah, about 930-ish,
but it all depends on when the sun goes down.
And then the other frequent question we get is,
when is the 4th of July parade in Racine?
And we let them know it's on August 3rd.
It's on the 4th of July.
So a 30 pre-parade 9 a.m.
The parade kicks off on Gould Street and Maine.
And it goes all the way to the Golden Rondells on 14th Street.
So it's a long parade about two and a half miles long.
Don Rosen will be in it.
And we look forward to seeing everyone.
I love having you here.
Yeah, I love being here.
So it's good talking to you.
It's have a good time.
We got a haircut last week because I was supposed to be out.
Last Tuesday.
Still holding that anger in, aren't you?
David Mack, our 4th district holder,
board member for 4th fest.
And we thank you very much for coming.
You can't wait for the parade.
Thank you.
It's going to be very much.
A beautiful day is being planned.
