WINONA, Minn. – Both the Steamboat Days parade and fireworks will be Saturday, June 26, organizer Jeremy Graves said. Because of the Covid pandemic, Graves said, planners have scrambled to out together the program.  “Steamboat Days will be 100% fully on as best we can do it in the timeframe given,” Graves told KWNO listeners. One question had been whether the usual car show could be arranged in time. The answer, the said, is yes. The car show will will make June 26 an especially big day.

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Access wristbands

Carnival wristbands will be available Friday at Hy-Vee and Midtown Foods.for $20, a $5 discount. Five-dollar buttons are at Kwik Trips, Severson Sinclairs, and Hy-Vee and Midtown Foods.

Unanswered question

Will KWNO resume its historic blow-by-blow live account of the fireworks from the vantage of a boat in Lake Winona?  The pioneer Winona broadcaster Rod Hurd would be so proud.

June 26.Aerial show over Lake Winona.

Hurd. 1918-1992.