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2019 Fireworks are Thursday, July 4 at dusk. Rain date is Saturday, July 6.

 

INAUGURAL POSTER CONTEST WINNING DESIGN PROMOTES UNITY

 

       The first ever Star Spangled Spectacular Poster Contest winner is Ruby Phelps, fourth grade student in Denise Hull’s class at St. Mary’s School. Her poster includes the “Coming Home” theme, multi-cultural children, Buena Vista University, St. Mary’s School where she attends and Storm Lake Schools with the banner  “We Love Storm Lake; We are one community SL.”

The poster contest replaces the longtime button contest due to poor button sales in recent years. Posters will be printed and placed in businesses in the community to help promote the 2019 July 3 and 4 event.

All Star Spangled Spectacular entertainment is family friendly and free of charge for the Spectacular. Entertainment is funded through private donations.

Information and updates regarding the 2019 celebration are available on the Spectacular’s webpage, www.starspangledspectacular.net, the Spectacular’s Facebook page at Star Spangled Spectacular or Twitter @SLSSSpectacular.

For real time alerts, text SPECTACULAR to 31996 for time and location information for Star Spangled Spectacular activities (note this is a new code).

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BAUMHOVER NAMED PARADE MARSHAL

 

            A longtime Storm Lake business leader has been named parade marshal for the 2019 Star Spangled Spectacular Big Parade. Bryan Baumhover, who served the past 20 years as manager at the Storm Lake Fareway grocery store will be leading the popular Fourth of July parade.

            “We chose Bryan Baumhover to be the grand marshal of the Star Spangled Spectacular Parade because of the impact he has had on so many people here in Storm Lake,” noted Rob and Michelle Smith, co-commodores of the Spectacular. “He has distinguished himself as a positive role model of how to treat people both young and old.  He has been instrumental in shaping the work ethic and basic customer service skills in employees, making every customer and employee feel special and important, and giving back to the community in so many ways by volunteering his time and talents."

            Baumhover recently moved to his hometown of Carroll to be near his aging parents and manage that Fareway store.

            “I am honored to be grand marshal as there are so many people deserving of it,” Baumhover said of his new honor. “Storm Lake has been home for me, Leann and the kids. It was a great place for raising my kids and making them ready for the world. The diversity here taught them better than any university.”

            The parade marshal said he was pleased to learn of the “Coming Home” theme and that the Pertzborn brothers are co-commodores of the event. “It’s exciting to see the ‘kids’ coming back – Brown kids, Brashears, Redenbaugh…and that the Smith’s (commodores) came home several years ago.”

            In his two decades of running the grocery store, he said he not only raised his biological family with beloved wife Leann, he also raised another family at the store. He said he is very proud of many of the employees that “grew up” at the Storm Lake Fareway and made their way out in the world.

            “I’d like to think I had a small part of their doings when I was working with them. I’m so proud of what they’ve become.”

All Star Spangled Spectacular entertainment is family friendly and free of charge for the Spectacular. Entertainment is funded through private donations.

Information and updates regarding the 2019 celebration are available on the Spectacular’s new webpage, www.starspangledspectacular.net, the Spectacular’s Facebook page at Star Spangled Spectacular or Twitter @SLSSSpectacular.

For real time alerts, text SPECTACULAR to 31996 for time and location information for Star Spangled Spectacular activities (note this is a new code).

 

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Pertzborn Brothers Named Co-Commodores

 

 

            Storm Lake natives Michael and Tony Pertzborn have been selected as co-commodores of the popular Star Spangled Spectacular July 3-4 events in Storm Lake, working alongside commodores Rob and Michelle Smith.

            In 2016, the brothers moved back to Storm Lake. Both of them lived in Denver, Colorado for a number of years. Being born and raised in Storm Lake, living in a different part of the country and then deciding  they were “Coming Home”  made them both great candidates for this year’s theme. Michael and Tony are both owners of Stille Pierce & Pertzborn Insurance Agency in Storm Lake. Michael and his wife Claudia welcomed a baby girl to the family in the summer of 2018.

“We chose ‘Coming Home’ because we want to encourage friends and family to come home and hold class reunions around the Fourth, but we also want people to consider coming home to Storm Lake to live,” Michelle said, noting she and Rob both came back home to live after living in the Pacific Northwest. They came home while their young sons were still in school and they had parents and family in the Storm Lake area.

            Rob and Michelle both grew up in Storm Lake and are the parents of grown sons Jake and Malcolm. Both Rob and Michelle are Realtors® for Rob Smith Homes and Land in Storm Lake.

All Star Spangled Spectacular entertainment is family friendly and free of charge for the Spectacular. Entertainment is funded through private donations.

Information and updates regarding the 2019 celebration are available on the Spectacular’s new webpage, www.starspangledspectacular.net, the Spectacular’s Facebook page at Star Spangled Spectacular or Twitter @SLSSSpectacular.

For real time alerts, text SPECTACULAR to 31996 for time and location information for Star Spangled Spectacular activities (note this is a new code).

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2019 Spectacular Theme Announced

 

            2019 Fourth of July Commodores Rob and Michelle Smith have announced the theme for the July 3 and 4 festivities – “Coming Home.”

“We chose ‘Coming Home’ because we want to encourage friends and family to come home and hold class reunions around the Fourth, but we also want people to consider coming home to Storm Lake to live,” Michelle said, noting they both came back home to live after living in the Pacific Northwest. They came home while their young sons were still in school and they had parents and family in the Storm Lake area.

            Rob and Michelle both grew up in Storm Lake and are the parents of grown sons Jake and Malcolm. Both co-commodores are Realtors® for Rob Smith Homes and Land in Storm Lake.

All Star Spangled Spectacular entertainment is family friendly and free of charge for the Spectacular. Entertainment is funded through private donations.

Information and updates regarding the 2019 celebration are available on the Spectacular’s new webpage, www.starspangledspectacular.net, the Spectacular’s Facebook page at Star Spangled Spectacular or Twitter @SLSSSpectacular.

For real time alerts, text SPECTACULAR to 31996 for time and location information for Star Spangled Spectacular activities.

 

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