Fireworks show is Sunday at county lake
By TOOTSIE SNELLING
Marion County Park & Lake Reporter
The fireworks show is on for Sunday evening after the ice cream social in Florence. They have lots of activities planned throughout the weekend in Florence so please attend some of them.
The fireworks will be shot off in the same place as last year and no one will be allowed on that point. PLEASE do not block the roads so that no one else can drive by. Pull onto the grass so you won't block the roads. It will be best to bring lawn chairs or blankets to sit on. It might be a good idea to bring along a jacket as it is getting cooler in the evenings now.
The same rule for boats apply as last year. Stay back at least 1,000 feet. Do not anchor up past the north shelter house point and an imaginary line straight south. You know Murphy's law, or who ever said it, "Whatever goes up must come down" and you don't want a hot shell burning a hole in the leather seat of your new boat, or worse, landing on your head.
A lot will depend on the wind speed and direction that night. The beach hill did not prove good last year because of the trees, but the cove across from the beach is good and the north shelter house point also is a good place to watch. If you could park your car in Kingfisher's Inn parking lot (on the lake side) and walk down on the point there would be less car congestion and more people could sit and watch. DO NOT PARK on the dam and block that road. There are enough inside roads without parking and blocking Lakeshore Drive. This must be kept open for emergency vehicles.
The show will be a little longer this year as they have about 100 more shells to shoot. Come out and enjoy the show and honk your horn after, if you liked it!
It was pretty quiet this weekend. We had a few campers, but I think everyone was home getting kids ready for school or moving college kids to school. Most of the bigger schools started on Monday. We had to laugh at one couple who has a yearly trailer spot here. They had just moved their youngest daughter to K-State. Their other two go to KU, and they stopped by here to recuperate. They were already bored and didn't know what to do since they didn't have any kids who wanted to go skiing or swimming. We told them they would have to get a book and set on their dock and read. They will have a time adjusting to a quiet house, but just wait till they all come home!
There were quite a few boat fishermen out early Saturday and Sunday mornings. They reported catching lots of short bass, walleye, and some wipers.
On the calm mornings it's really fun to set outside and watch the wipers hit the shad schools that work around the lake. They really make a splash!
The channel cat continue to bite on liver and dip bait. Paul White from McPherson caught two really nice ones weighing in at 7 pounds 4 ounces and 3 pounds 10 ounces. Crappie fishing in the heated dock is still slow, but the ones who work at it can catch a few now and then.
The Stockdales hosted a potluck supper Saturday evening in the hall, I believe it was a church group, and the Stamps held a reunion on Sunday. Our Savior Lutheran Church held Sunday morning church services in the East Shelter. It was a nice morning for them. We have a few campers already in for Labor Day weekend.
We traveled to Topeka last week to celebrate our anniversary. It rained what seemed like bucketsful there and we were hoping it was doing it here, but no such luck. On our way home we stopped in Overbrook to visit my sister and husband, Virginia and Dick Gettinger, and had lunch with them.
