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Reese Mirador eats watermelon Monday in Pepin Park during the annual Independence Day celebration with his mother, Theresa Mirador. The 15-year celebration offers people food, music and companionship throughout the day. The Fourth of July Festival was started by brothers Allen "Woody" and Vince Woodwick after they heard people say they couldn't find anything to do in Havre for Independence Day outside of the annual fireworks display.
Drawn by live music, free food and the chance to mingle with old friends, people from Havre and beyond came out to Pepin Park Monday for the 15th annual Havre Fourth of July Festival.
At 11 a.m, before the first musician took to the stage or the first hamburger was served, people were already on the scene. Some were early arrivals, many either carried babies in their arms or mounted on their shoulders. Many sat in foldable lawns chairs in the shade of the park’s trees.
Scores of volunteers were hard at work preparing for the festivities, adorning trees with American flags or the park�...
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