Ken Warren Grand Marshall in 4th of July Parade!

[Jim O'Bryan]

The Mayor gets choice right!

LAKEWOOD CELEBRATES THE FOURTH OF JULY

PARADE AT 10:00 A.M., BAND CONCERT AT 7:00 P.M. AND

FIREWORKS IN LAKEWOOD PARK AT DUSK


Lakewood Mayor Ed FitzGerald today announced that Kenneth Warren from the Lakewood Public Library will serve as the Grand Marshall for the City’s Fourth of July parade. The parade is scheduled to step off on Friday, July 4, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. on Lake Avenue at Kenneth Drive and conclude at Lakewood Park.

Kenneth Warren is the Director of Lakewood Public Library. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He began his professional career as Children's Librarian in the Waco-Mclennon County Public Library in Waco, Texas. He served as Assistant Director in Leonia Public Library in Leonia, New Jersey and as Director of Dover Free Public Library in Dover, New Jersey.

In his spare time, he is active in civic journalism and small press literary publishing. He is an advisor to the Lakewood Observer. Since 1993, he has edited House Organ, a quarterly letter of poetry and prose, from his home on Belle Avenue. With Fred Whitehead, he edited and introduced The Whole Song: Selected Poems by Vincent Ferrini for University of Illinois Press.

The Lakewood Public Library officially reopened on June 1, 2008 after a $17.8 million dollar expansion and renovation project. The new facility has nearly doubled the size of the Main Library from 55,000 to 93,000 square feet with room for greatly expanded children's services and computer access, not to mention more books, movies, music, newspapers and magazines.

“We are pleased to honor Ken Warren for all he has given to the Lakewood communityâ€￾ said Mayor FitzGerald. “We are proud to have him serve as Grand Marshall of the Fourth of July Parade.â€￾


Joining in the parade will be musical favorites, the Lakewood High School Ranger Marching Band, St. Edward High School Band, the Lochaber Pipe Band and Red Hackle Pipe Band. The Lakewood Christian Service Center, the City’s food bank, is requesting that parade attendees bring a canned food item to donate as they will be collecting along the parade route.

After the parade, festivities will continue in Lakewood Park with games, food, activities and information provided by several of Lakewood’s not-for-profit organizations. At 7:00 p.m., the Lakewood Project, Lakewood High School’s Youth Rock Orchestra, will perform at the Bandstand at Lakewood Park.

The Fourth of July festivities will conclude with Lakewood annual fireworks extravaganza at approximately 9:45-10:00 p.m. This year’s fireworks are being sponsored by Ice Land USA-LLC, the new operators of Winterhurst Ice Rink.

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For further information contact the Office of Community Relations at (216) 529-6650.

Congratulations Ken!

Will Ken wear his cape?


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[Corey Rossen]

I can't wait to see him in the fury hat and twirling the baton!

Maybe in a couple of months, he will be invited to Columbus to dot the "i".

Corey