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up the band for 4th of July in HB

It was 118 years ago that the first celebration of the Fourth of July in Huntington Beach was held and the tradition continues next month with five days of events with an expected 500,000 attendees.

The weekend’s events will begin on Friday, June 30 with the Main Street Block Party including an open-air concert featuring The Ramsey Brothers, followed by the Redneck Rodeo band.

Starting on Saturday and continuing through Tuesday (July 4), there will be over 70 vendors including craft and retail booths, food trucks, carnival rides, live music, games and more. The Carnival and Pier Festival runs all weekend from 12-10 p.m. and all ages are welcome.

The first annual Huntington Beach Cornhole Tournament of Champions will take place July 1-2 (Saturday and Sunday) with cash prizes.

On Tuesday, July 4, the annual Surf City Run 5k will be held in the downtown area.

The Fourth of July Parade is on Tuesday, starting at 10 a.m. at Main Street and Pacific Coast Highway. The 2.5-mile route goes north up Main and features over 200 registered participating groups and thousands of view-

Local students honored by colleges

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also Westminster, has been named to the dean’s list at Benedictine.

ers.

Finally, local residents and businesses can decorate for the Annual Home and Business Decorating Content with prizes awarded for best theme decor along the Main Street parade route and businesses in the downtown area.

For more details, go to www. hb4thofjuly.org or facebook. com/HB4thofJuly.

Utah Tech is in St. George, Utah.

Anselm Friesen of Westminster has been named to the president’s list at Benedictine College in Kansas. Steven Nguyen,

Sarah Bielicki of Huntington Beach received the Michelle Chartier Memorial Award for academic excellence from The Millikan University in Decatur, Illinois.

200+ Killed In Two Indian Train Wrecks

As many as 900 people are injured; rescues continue

The derailment of two passenger trains in India on Friday have killed more than 200 people and others – perhaps hundreds more – are trapped in other railroad cars.

According to the Associated Press, the crash took place about 137 miles southwest of the Indian city of Kolkata. One estimate indicated that over 800 people were injured.

The New York Times put the wounded count at 900. News reports coming from India say that rescue teams are using dogs and cutting equip- ment to locate and rescue survivors.

A spokesman for the railway administration said that 10 to 12 cars on one track derailed and that some of the wreckage struck an adjacent track where it was hit by a second train.

India, which has a poor road network, has relied on its railroads for much of its transportation needs.

But the trains are often overloaded and some stretches of track are old and have needed replacement for years, if not de-

Librarians to sue over restrictions on books

Can a librarian be sent to jail for a year for giving a child a book banned as being “harmful to minors?”

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That’s the law in Arkansas and a several public libraries in that state filed a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality.

According to United Press International, the law doesn’t go into effect until Aug. 1, but some libraries have already reacted by removing some books.

Affected books could include those about people with disabilities, puberty, religion and LGBTQ characters, says UPI.

Further, the law allows local officials to remove books from public libraries.