Porter’s Independence Day Parade is just a few days away, The parade will form up at Yost Elementary School on Saturday, July 4, at 11 a.m. and will step off at noon, following a route along Wagner Road and Lincoln Street through downtown Porter.

All kinds of entries with a patriotic theme are anticipated, including marching units, performing groups, floats, and decorated vehicles. Prizes will be awarded for the most inventive entries in a number of categories.

Parade applications are available at the Porter Town Hall, 303 Franklin Street, and the Chesterton Duneland Chamber of Commerce, 220 Broadway. For additional information, call 926-1156 or 405-1933.

Vendors will be supplying a wide array of fare for the two-day Fourth of July Festival in Hawthorne Park, July 4 and 5. There will be a variety of food for sale, and vendors of all sorts will be hosting booths in the park.

Porter’s Fourth of July celebration is sponsored by the Friends of Porter, a non-profit organization.

The celebration will include a Teen Music Night on Friday, July 3, and a patriotic parade on Saturday, July 4. Festival grounds will be set up at Hawthorne Park on Saturday and Sunday, July 4-5, with games, music, and a variety of other family activities, as well as food and craft vendors.

Pat’s Liquors will be hosting an outdoor beer garden. The Chesterton Lions Club will be doing a pancake breakfast on both Saturday and Sunday mornings, and it will also sponsor the annual Turtle Race.

A new feature this year will be a bingo tent.

For more information on Porter’s Fourth of July Celebration, call 926-1156.

Posted 6/30/2009