Republican-Clipper photo, Phil Conger
Her first parade: Little Gracie Pilgrim, two months old, snoozes in the lap of her father during the Cainsville parade on Saturday morning. James Pilgrim of Kansas City was holding an umbrella to keep the sun off his sleeping daughter. (Other pictures from the parade are inside this week’s newspaper.)
Republican-Clipper photo
Fourth of July queen: Bethany Chamber of Commerce President Cassi Easton-Deskins hands her grandmother Muriel Broce a mixed bouquet of flowers and fireworks after she was crowned queen of the Bill and Elizabeth Hogan Fourth of July parade on Thursday. Muriel won the queen title by a landslide vote over perennial candidate “Ownie Cleecher.” Muriel served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II.