A Tropical Bearadise

We're having a heat wave... a tropical heatwave...

They just might be in McCleary this weekend.  The 2012 McCleary Bear Festival is set to begin on Thursday, July 12.

It is the 53rd anniversary of an event that was dreamed up by the editor of the McCleary Stimulator ( a hometown paper ) in 1958.   Local community blog Grays Harbor Down has an excellent post about the origins of this festival and is definetly worth checking out.

It all begins with a kick off dinner, auction and coronation, yes coronation. There are Bear Festival Princesses that will be crowned at dinner on the 12th.

If you have an itch to try something new, you must stick around for the traditional bear stew!

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