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PHOTOS: Shakopee's Happy Birthday America Parade
Shakopee hosted its annual Happy Birthday America Parade at Lions Park Friday morning with more than 150 participants.

I am the local editor of the Woodinville and Edmonds Patch sites and a recent transplant to Washington from Minnesota. Before moving, I was the local editor for Shakopee Patch near Minneapolis and before that, I worked for Forum Communications as editor of the weekly Pine Journal newspaper in Cloquet. I was also a general assignment reporter at the daily newspaper, Duluth News Tribune.
Fun fact: While in Cloquet, my team and I won a Minnesota Newspaper Association award for leadership related to the 50th anniversary of the only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed gas station in the world.
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Shakopee hosted its annual Happy Birthday America Parade at Lions Park Friday morning with more than 150 participants.

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