A warm Memorial Day as summer starts
The Memorial in the Grace Cemetery is the site of a Memorial Day visit of honor.
Technically, of course, summer doesn’t start until the third week in June, but for all intents and purposes, the eighty degree weather and the fact the two thirds of Caribou County’s kids are out of school already makes it a moot point. Memorial Day is a busy and packed day, with cemeteries holding events to honor those fallen in service, families decorating the resting places of those who have gone before them, and everyone desperately trying to wring the last few moments out of the three day weekend before the clock runs out.
Members of the American Legion and VFW (and others) were in action throughout the county to provide fitting tributes at veteran memorials, with ceremonies conducted by Jacob Hirsbrunner, David Barthlome, and others.
In addition to the more solemn parts of the day, it is also noted on the calendar as the weekend that the Chesterfield townsite opens, which it did to great success on Monday. The summer docents are more or less in place, and the season is well and truly going.
As the day wound down, one look at the traffic headed west on Highway 30 should have been enough to remind locals of the homecourt advantage they possess for vacationing. Even in the best of times the outgoing traffic is a mess, but with the road east of Lava Hot Springs still restricted to one way alternating traffic, the line of cars waiting to get through the bottleneck on Monday evening stretched for miles up toward Fish Creek summit, with literal inch by inch movement for seemingly hours.
With Grace the remaining school to officially call it a school year and put on the flip-flops, summer is at least just around the corner, if not already at the doorstep.
