Parades set for Saturday

Lindale and Cave Spring are planning Independence Day celebrations.

Independence Day festivities will begin on Saturday in downtown Lindale and Cave Spring.

Both cities will be having events during the day with Lindale kicking things off with an Independence Day parade and Cave Spring is planning a fireworks show Saturday night.

The Independence Day parade in Cave Spring will be on July 4 at 9 a.m.

If the fireworks are rained out on Saturday evening, Cave Spring will reschedule the event to Monday.

Those wishing to witness the Fourth annual “A Lindale Independence Day Celebration” can line up along Park Avenue at 10 a.m. and watch as 40-65 floats from the Lindale community make their way from Pepperell Primary School to First Baptist Church of Lindale.

The parade’s grand marshal will be Sara Heath — a former teacher at Pepperell Elementary from 1956-1986 — and will be seated in the antique Lindale fire truck.

Following the grand marshal in a convertible will be 99-year-old Minnie Milton — the oldest member of the Lindale community. For more information about putting a float in the Lindale parade for free, contact Tim Reynolds at 706-252-1918.

Also on Saturday and during the parade, Restoration Lindale will be hosting an art festival to South First Street for the first time.

The festival will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. with

over 25 vendors and a rock scavenger hunt that will be featured on the Rome Rocks Facebook page.

According to Tim Reynolds of Restoration Lindale, the group decided to move the parade to Saturday to avoid interference with events happening in downtown Rome. The group later decided that due to the increasing interest in art in the Floyd County community that they would include an art festival as well featuring local artists.

South First Street and Park Avenue in Lindale will be closed from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Meanwhile in Cave Spring, locals will be able to enjoy live music coming from the downtown gazebo beginning at noon featuring local band Misdemeanor.

All stores will be open downtown allowing visitors to shop while waiting on the evening fireworks.

The Cave Spring Community Pool at Rolater Park will also be open and feature a live DJ. The fireworks will begin around 9 p.m. and, according to Billy Abernathy of Cave Spring, the best place to view them is from downtown Cave Spring.