From Tuesday morning devotions, to the noon potluck, and on to the afternoon parade, Mayflower residents celebrated the 4th of July in Grinnell. Resident Rev. Bonnie Lipton led the regular Tuesday devotions in the Carman Center as participants heard encouragement to share kindness in life and words of assurance and then meditated in silence.
At noon, over 100 residents and guests enjoyed an old-fashioned potluck buffet, also in the Carman Center. The Mayflower Residents Association provided quarter-pound, all-beef hotdogs (not what Joey Chestnut eats!); hamburgers, buns, baked beans, and coleslaw. Residents enhanced that offering with their own contributions of special foods.
Having not gathered like this for a few years, it was enjoyable time of camaraderie…and eating!
Then, residents drove “floats” in the annual Grinnell 4th of July Parade that skirted campus on Main Street. Darwin Kinne and Suzanne Schwengels pulled the Mayflower ship on a trailer. Chris Vogel drove the “Bubble Mobile” (Mayflower gator). Shelia Gause and Bonnie Lipton drove decorated Mayflower golf cars accompanied by Iann Veldhuizen and Pat Lipton. Iann might have been dispensing bubbles from her “bubble gun.”
Bob Mann, Mayflower Sales & Marketing Director (641-236-6151)