Bushed

July 9, 2017, McCleary Bear Festival

Strike two

July 9, 2017, McCleary Bear Festival baseball

First base

July 7, 2017, Bear Festival setup

No baseball today

Dec. 12, 2010. In the "100 year flood" of 1990, I think it was, I saw Beerbower Park completely under water, basically a lake. The pedestrian bridge over Sam's Canal washed away. First St. north of Mommsen was a river. It didn't help that Simpson had just clearcut the woods on Hospital Hill so the runoff was extra bad.

Simpson cut all those trees and then turned the site into a residential development (now on Oak Lane) originally and ironically named "Evergreen Heights." You could make this stuff up, but no one would believe you. 

Baseball dugout

McCleary Bear Festival, July 13, 2012. I think this was the year the law enforcement guys were playing the firefighters, and a rare thunderstorm came, and they kept on playing anyway.

Baseball

July 13, 2012, McCleary Bear Festival.

Although McCleary definitely is a town filled with Seahawks fans, baseball is the sport that has been played by the citizens, children and adult, ever since the town was created. Baseball is a big part of the Bear Festival every year. 

That being said, there are only two times I have seen fireworks set off in McCleary outside of New Years or Independence Day. First was when Osama bin Laden was killed by special forces sent in by President Obama, and second was when the Seahawks won the Superbowl.