PARADE: The parade includes fire trucks, lights and sirens, ambulance, and many surprises. The emergency vehicles will throw candy for the children. Free parking, of course! GAMES: Giant board games include Connect4, checkers, Jenga and Yahtzee. These are fun for all ages! How good is your aim? Get right on over to the dunk tank!… Continue reading Marion Freedom Day 2023
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Marion Freedom Day 2021
We are helping our fire department to host Marion Freedom Day on Saturday, July 3rd. The event kicks off at 11 AM with a parade. After the parade we will have our traditional, old-fashioned, family-friendly games, such as a watermelon eating contest, dunk tank, rubber duck races, kids' firefighting obstacle course, and tug-of-war. The Hilltop… Continue reading Marion Freedom Day 2021
CANCELLED: Marion Freedom Day
Regretfully, Marion Freedom Day (our community's 4th of July parade-carnival-BBQ that our fire department hosts) is cancelled. A majority of the Marion Fire District's Board of Directors decided to cancel the event, because of COVID-19. Hopefully, conditions will improve enough that we will have the event next year. We will still draw raffle winners' tickets… Continue reading CANCELLED: Marion Freedom Day
4th of July Event Committee Meeting
We are looking for volunteers from the community-at-large to help and participate in this year's event on Independence Day. We're especially hopeful to get more participants in the parade that can create/pull a decorated float or drive a classic car. There's a committee meeting tomorrow (5 PM on June 3rd) at the main fire station… Continue reading 4th of July Event Committee Meeting