Small Town Heroes

Lorri Sughroue/McCook Gazette

Julie Francis, top left, of Holbrook, shows her daughter, Elena, 2 1/2, the array of candy collected from the parade Saturday morning at this year’s Medicine Creek Days 2022. The theme this year was “Small Town Heroes,” recognizing the firefighters and everyone else who stepped up to help in April when two massive wildfires threatened the town and neighboring areas. Top right, with the temperature already in the 90s by the time the parade began, members of the Cambridge Volunteer Fire Department drench spectators with water sprayed from a fire truck hose; middle, Cambridge FFA members spray more water at the crowd; bottom right, a boy and his dog keep up the pace at the parade; bottom left, behind every good firefighter there’s a great crew.