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The 50th annual Glen Arbor Fourth of July Parade will be here soon, and the Glen Lake Chamber of Commerce reports that volunteers are needed to help on the parade route. Duties include making sure kids stay off the course, as well as sweeping candy to the sides of the road. The parade starts around noon and travels from Glen Haven through Glen Arbor. It should last about an hour. If you are able to volunteer, please stop by the Art’s Tavern “Annex” (which sells t-shirts & Art’s products) to pick up your course marshal t-shirt.

Glen Arbor is a small world with serendipitous encounters happening all the time. Last summer yielded one such instance, and the result is that the only known 1948 Ford from the Dunesmobile fleet will lead this year’s Fourth of July Parade.

Glen Arbor’s celebration of Uncle Sam’s 235th birthday kicks off with a 4 p.m. performance of patriotic music by the Northport Community Band on Saturday, July 2, at the Glen Arbor Athletic Club.

The “Roaming Boomers”, David and Carol Porter, have featured Glen Arbor on the American Association of Retired People’s (AARP) blog. Here’s how they reminisced about Memorial Day weekend in our town: