Healdsburg residents celebrated the Fourth of July on a sunny Sunday at the Rotary Club of Healdsburg Sunrise’s annual Fourth of July event in the Plaza.
The Healdsburg Community Band played a medley of marches and historical numbers and kids and their families dressed in their best Fourth of July gear for the kids parade around the Plaza.
Costumes ranged from simple red, white and blue outfits, to Statue of Liberty and Benjamin Franklin and Geroge Washington outfits complete with white curly wigs. Some pets even dressed up for the occasion with little Uncle Sam hats and red and blue bandanas.
Senator Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg) kicked off the kids parade by announcing the parade leader, the Duck Dash duck and kids hitched a ride in a wagon while others rode bikes decked out with balloons, flags and red, white and blue decorations.
Other events included a dry Duck Dash. Instead of racing rubber ducks down a water course and into the Plaza fountain, kids decorated their ducks and outfitted them with wheels or carts and raced them down the wooden track that’s usually used for the fall pumpkin and gourd races.
Rotary members served up free hotdogs, street corn, snow cones and popcorn.
