Friday, July 4

—32nd annual Mini Piggy Fun Run, 10:45 a.m.

—Independence Day Parade, 11 a.m. New parade route: The parade will line up in the parking lot of Austin City Hall and Austin Utilities, 500 and 400 Fourth St. NE, and move down Fourth Avenue Northeast before turning south onto Main Street North — its normal route — and running to Bandshell Community Park.

—Austin Fire Department water wars behind the bandshell on Ninth Place SW, 2-5 p.m.

—Ice cream social at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2-4 p.m. — free parking on July 3 and 4.

—Bean bag tourney north of the bandshell, 1 p.m. registration, 2 p.m. playing time. Call Shelley for more details at 507-440-0961.

—Bingo, presented by the Mower County veterans, at the Bandshell Community Park pavilion, 2-8 p.m.

 

Bandshell stage: entertainment, 1-10 p.m.: 

•Opening ceremony/flag raising, 1-1:30 p.m.

•LibertySeed Event, 1:30-2 p.m.

•Austin High School mariachi band (subject to change), 2-3 p.m.

•Austin High School jazz band (subject to change), 5-6:15 p.m.

•The Austin Big Band, 6:30-8 p.m.

•Announcements/fireworks raffle drawings, 8-8:30 p.m.

•Austin Community Band, 8:30-10 p.m.

•Fireworks, dusk

Freedom Fest parade lineup

Freedom Fest parade lineup

 

1. VFW Post & Auxiliary

2. American Legion Post 91 & Auxiliary

3. American Legion Post 146-Adams

4. DAV

5. Boy Scouts

6. Girl Scouts

7. Austin High Cheerleaders

8. Austin High School Marching Band

9. Grand Marshal

10. Gene’s Pedalists

11. Friends of the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center

12. Matchbox Childrens Theatre

13. City of Austin Mayor Tom Stiehm

14. Little Miss Sparkler (Overby)

15. OPEN

16. Hormel Institute

17. Tom’s Heating & A/C

18. Austin Alumni Band

19. The Cedars of Austin

20. Jane Taylor Academy of Dance

21. Pacelli Catholic Schools

22. Y-Waste Removal

23. Moose Lodge No. 1180 –

24. Walgreens

25. Good Samaritan / Comforcare

26. Blooming Prairie “The Stix of Fury”

27. Primrose Retirement Community

28. Jeanne Poppe-House Representative

29. Ambassador of US to UN

30. Riverland Community College

31. Kwik Trip

32. Austin FFA

33. Knights of Columbus

34. OPEN

35. Rochester Pipe & Drums

36. Relay for Life

37. A Smooth Move

38. Austin Lions Go-Cart Unit

39. Mower County Sheriff

40. Bridget’s Dance Conservatory

41. Pizza Ranch

42. Southland

43. Vision 20/20

44. McDonalds

45. Keys To Life Apostolic Church

46. Mower County GOP/Dennis Schminke

47. Hy-Vee

48. Sacred Heart Juggling Team

49. Big Island Rendezvous and Festival

50. Rochester Merry Medics

51. Lyle Area Cancer

52. Alley Katz

53. Austin Jaycees

54. KSMQ

55. Westminster Presbyterian Church

56. OPEN

57. Dylan Kaercher’s Theater Camp

58. Austin Power & Sport

59. Riverside Figure Skating

60. Austin Utilities

61. Eastwood Bank

62. Albert Lea HS Marching Band

63. Salvation Army

64. Acclaim Studio of Dance

65. Mower County Mentoring Program

66. Crane Community Chapel

67. ARC Mower County

68. B&T Coaches LLC

69. Cedar River Longbeards

70. Austin ArtWorks Festival

71. Osman Dragon Patrol

72. Austin Shrine Oriental Band

73. Great Clips

74. Windom 4-H

75. Mower County 4-H

76. Mower County Fair

77. Home Federal Savings Bank

78. Viking Auto Glass & Bumper

79. Gold Cross Ambulance Service

80. Austin Youth Hockey

81. Austin Bruins

82. Rochester Cycle Patrol

83. St. Marks

84. Thompson Sanitation Inc

85. Hometown Broadcasting Power 96 & KQAQ

86. Precision Signs

87. 100 M4 Hunger — Kelly Nesvold

88. Total Fitness Gym of Austin

89. Minnesota Corrugated Box

90. Austin YMCA Gymnastics

91. The Corners Bar & Restaurant

92. KAUS

93. Walmart

94. OPEN

95. Allweather

96. OPEN

97. Austin Community Band

98. Brownsdale Fire Department

99. Mapleview Fire Department

100. Austin Fire Department

Click here for the full Freedom Fest schedule.