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ELLY GRIMM

   • Leader & Times

The 4th of July holiday is right around the corner, and plans are currently being finalized for this year’s festivities, including the parade.

This year’s 4th of July Parade will be Friday, July 4, with staging starting at 9 a.m. and the parade itself starting at 10 a.m. Staging will be at Trail Street, and the parade will start there and go north to Light Park, where the 4th of July Committee will be hosting a fun day in the park for everyone following the parade. The day in the park will wrap up later that afternoon, and then people can head to Brent Gould Field that evening for the annual Bee Jays baseball game and fireworks show afterward.

ROBERT PIERCE

    • Leader & Times

The earliest memories of Presephoni Fuller’s life are marked by the dark shadow of domestic violence.

Invisible and forgotten, the call of God on her life changed everything. Born and raised in Florida, Fuller is a survivor of childhood domestic violence and has transformed a painful past into a powerful testimony.

In her new book, “Let the Daughters Speak,” Dr. Fuller shares her domestic violence story, as well as delving into the forgotten lives of the five daughters of Zelophehad chronicled in the Old Testament book of Numbers.

ELLY GRIMM

  • Leader & Times

The Liberal Army Airfield has a short but fascinating history for people in the area. During its 27 months of activation, the air field graduated 4,468 four-engine airplane commanders, and 1,025 pilots were graduated from the pre-transition course conducted for a period in the middle of 1944.

Recently, local citizens Lidia Hook-Gray and Connie Bowman decided to put some of that history together in the book “Images of Aviation: Liberal Army Airfield,” a project Gray said came about almost as a fluke.

Old Farmer’s Almanac

Summer days are here. Summer begins with the solstice today, marking the astronomical first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. What exactly is the summer solstice? Is it really the longest day of the year? Welcome the solstice with some interesting facts and folklore.