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Calumet Heritage Days Go Italiano

The theme for this year's Heritage Festival was Italian. The festival is in its seventh year. The festival is the creation of Lucy Nakkula, Calumet D.D.A. member. Lucy and the DDA have been working on reviving Calumet's  downtown district. Calumet has chosen to go through the "Main Street Program", a program similar to Ironwood's Blueprints program, but is more structured and has more accountability attached to it.

This years heritage festival was designed to bring people to the downtown. The event takes place in the town park. The event included games for kids and adults alike. The kids played old fashion  games such as potato sack races. Adults engage in sport such as horseshoes. Speaking of horses, Horse drawn wagons provided tours of the downtown.

There were bikes everywhere as the "The Great Deer Mountain Bike Race"  took place in downtown. Imagine no mountains nor trails.

Watching the racers get ready for one of the heats, I noticed the riders strapping devices to their ankles. I asked if they were under house arrest. Of course not! Those devices were computer chips used to score the race. High end scoring devices to go with the high end bikes that these little kids were peddling.