By Carleen Wild
Moody County Enterprise

Bardine May has been attending Looney Days and the parade every year since it started.
“The community comes out and supports everybody, just by showing the businesses we care about them and everybody, it’s a small town, nice thing and I get to enjoy the day with my grandkids,” May said this past Saturday, as entry after entry floated by in this year’s Looney Days parade through downtown Colman, and as her grandkids scrambled for their favorite candy being tossed out generously by passers-by.

May was standing in front of Greg’s Place, where her mom Betty Park has worked for decades. Park, who just turned 80 and was still dressed that day for work, was out enjoying the parade with the family as well while School Superintendent Scott Hemmer emceed parade entries with Hawks alumni and event host Carter Schmidt.
There was the golf tournament, music, free swim at the pool, the event’s first-ever Little Miss Pageant, and festivities that included a tractor pull on Saturday afternoon. Friends and families, some that haven’t gathered in a long time, reunited for the annual festival, sharing laughs, perhaps a beer or a corn dog, and a lot of memories.
Tori Westover, holding her one-year-old daughter Braylee, said she wouldn’t miss it.
“You get to see everyone together and meet people you didn’t know,” said Westover.
“It’s just a great small town community.”