Local Fun on the Fourth

Fun Fourth festivities. Try saying that three times fast.

Nah, just get up early and enjoy one of the best community events of the year: the 4th of July parade. Top it off with an afternoon and evening full of cookouts and fireworks. 

Here are the details on local activities:

Town of Brookfield

The parade starts at 9 a.m. Monday at Elmbrook Church and runs east along Davidson Road and then south on Linden Lane, ending at Marx Park, 700 S. Barker Road.

The National Anthem will be sung at 9:45 a.m. to kick off a picnic at the park that runs until noon.

There will be food for sale and free ice cream and juice boxes handed out to children. Games will include sack races, a baby crawl, fire hose squirt, egg toss, pie-eating contest and "hockey haven slapshot." The fire department will have a "hose down" at 11:30 a.m. 

City of Brookfield 

The parade kicks off at 10 a.m. Monday on Gebhardt Road (see parade route map), turns north on Calhoun Road, west on North Avenue, south on Norhardt Drive, ending at Civic Drive. 

The city is asking residents not to put out any lawn chairs or other items before 7 p.m. Sunday.

An ice cream social will be held immediately after the parade at Civic Plaza, 2000 N. Calhoun Road, where country singer and Brookfield East High senior Nora Collins will sing the National Anthem.

From 6 to 9 p.m. Family Fest will be held at Mitchell Park, with the band Our House, a juggler and magician Glen Gerard. Also on tap: games, food and fireworks at about 9:15 p.m.