Buffalo Bill Days Brings a Weekend of Enjoyable to Lanesboro

Lanesboro is prepared for a weekend of enjoyable as Buffalo Bill Days returns July 30 by August 2 with sports activities tournaments, stay leisure, household actions, native cultural occasions, fireworks, meals, and the ever-popular Grand Parade.

Buffalo Bill Days is greater than only a weekend of occasions,” defined Kristen Asleson, Buffalo Bill Days committee chair. “To the committee and residents, it’s a celebration of what makes our community special. It brings neighbors together, welcomes visitors to Lanesboro, and creates memories that families will cherish for years to come.”

This yr’s celebration options two new additions: a pickleball match and a bean bag match, that are positive to be a success.

Festive goers may participate in or cheer on a full lineup of competitions, together with a co-ed youth volleyball match, youth fishing match, buffalo roam 5K 1 mile household enjoyable run and stroll occasion, males’s softball match, best-shot golf match, and co-ed grownup volleyball.

Music will fill the weekend, with Charlie Warner performing on the gazebo on Friday, the Firemen’s Street Dance that includes Red Dirt Road on Friday night time, and a free live performance by Whiskey on Saturday night time.

Families will discover loads to get pleasure from all through the celebration. Activities for youthful guests embrace the household film night time within the park on Thursday night, a pedal pull, bouncy homes, jumbo yard video games, and extra. Fireworks will happen on Saturday night.

Visitors may get pleasure from a wide range of native cultural occasions, together with the farmers market, bingo, automobile cruise-in, Hwy. 30 church service, market, beer and brat tent, and History Porch Talks with Steve Harris, “Buffalo Bill’s BFF: Dr. Frank (White Beaver) Powell.”

Buffalo Bill will make an look in the course of the Grand Parade on Sunday, August 2, at 1:30 p.m. This yr’s Grand Marshal is the Lanesboro Public Library. They are being acknowledged for 100 years of service to the Lanesboro group.

Food distributors will provide all kinds of choices, together with pizza, fries, strips, corn canine, fried pickles, burgers, steak suggestions, cheese curds, onion rings, duck wontons, specialty lattes, soiled sodas, Lotus Energy, dye-free youngsters’ drinks, baked items, Mexican delicacies, cotton sweet, kettle corn, flavored popcorn, hen teriyaki, steak teriyaki, shrimp teriyaki.

Upcoming Events

• July 24-26, Houston Hoedown Days, Houston

• July 25, Engelhart Performance Car Show, Rushford

• July 25, Music within the Bluffs, Whalan

• July 26, Music within the Bandstand, Peterson

• July 28, Music in Veterans Park, Houston

• July 30-August 2, Buffalo Bill Days, Lanesboro

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