Kids chow down on slices of watermelon during the Lighthouse Church's Watermelon Eating Contest, which kicked off the main street events on July 3, 2023. See the schedule on pages 8 and 9 for all of this year's festivities.
There are a lot of classic games during Petersburg's 4th of July celebration – log rolling, the money pile, the egg toss. Nathan Lopez runs the main street events on the 3rd, hosted by the Lighthouse Church. He said some events do get changed from year to year.
"We had one year where we actually had pies with herring in it," he said. "And then we realized that was a bad decision. I mean, I should have just already recognized that was a bad decision."
Side note: the herring was raw.
"So it was kinda like this idea 'Let's do something funny, gross and local,' and it was like - it was too gross a...
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