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Brief: Heat Stifles Freedom Days Attendance, Activities
While a couple activities were altered and heat apparently brought down some attendance, organizers still consider this year's event a success.
While the Apple Valley Freedom Days committee won't have an official wrap-up meeting and review of this year's events until September, organizers report that the heat might very well have had an effect on the activities at the annual Fourth of July festival.
For one, the weather caused the cancelation of the petting zoo and pony rides scheduled for family fun night, chairperson Pat Schesso wrote in an email. The animals were supposed to be transported from Lino Lakes, but operators said it was too dangerous to do so in the extreme heat, Schesso wrote.
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She also wrote that organizers believe family fun night attendance was down, and that attendance at the carnival overall was down.
But, Schesso wrote, there's obviously nothing the committee could do about the weather.
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"We do feel that all things considered with the weather that all events went well," Schesso wrote. "Those folks that attended we believe had a good time."
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