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5 p.m. “If it had just been a short thundershower we would have been alright,” Chief Roach said Tuesday evening. “The crowd held for about a half-hour, hoping it would stop. But when it just kept raining harder, they finally gave up and left.”
The downpour cost the department about two-thirds of the day, since a good portion of the food sales have usually come from visitors who buy dinners to eat on the lawn while enjoying the evening entertainment and fireworks.
Chief Roach reported that the
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