There are multiple ways to celebrate the Fourth of July this week and next in Steuben County.
Whether attending a concert or performance, looking for a good fireworks display or trying to catch a parade, thereâs something going on throughout the weekend to enjoy.
Patriotic Pops
Gather today on the lawn at the Potawatomi Inn lawn at Pokagon State Park, 6 Lane 100A Lake James, Angola, for the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Patriotic Pops concert at 7:30 p.m.
The annual performance, sponsored by the Steel Dynamics Foundation, is free to the public, but park entrance fees do apply. Entrance fees are $7 for Indiana resident vehicles and $9 for non-residents.
As they sit around sharing stories of the old and new in the Hamilton Fire Station you can see their passion for the job, and why they stayed in the gig for 50 years. Turkington, 69, joined the fire service in Plimmerton when he was 18 and at the end of a mechanic apprenticeship. His father convinced him to finish the apprenticeship and two days after it was complete he joined the fire brigade full time. In 2000 he made the move from Wellington to Hamilton, where he attended the Tamahere coolstore fire in 2008, which saw one firefighter die and several injured.
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