Nothing beats the Fourth of July in North Idaho
Fourth of July 2025. Yes, I love the festive flair. Thanks for the cute pinwheels, Mom!
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This homemade potato salad, famously made by my mom and my grandmother, tastes like summer and belongs at every Fourth of July celebration. I have finally mastered it!
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Reporter Devin Weeks, sopping wet while covering the 2022 American Heroes Fourth of July Parade in downtown Coeur d'Alene for The Press. It poured during the parade, but it was a beautiful sunset that night that made for the perfect backdrop for fireworks shows.
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There's my beautiful mama, Vicki Heilman, snapping a photo with me Fourth of July 2022. We had lots of friends over that day. Mom, the potato salad was a hit!
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The best day of the summer is almost here.
I can picture it now: Fluffy white clouds lazily floating about in a deep blue sky, burgers sizzling on the grill, homemade potato salad and baked beans on the picnic table, oldies music on the radio, faces and hands sticky from cherry Popsicles and Bomb Pops, American flags waving in the breeze, red, white and blue buntings draped on white picket fences, perhaps a water ballon fight breaking out amid the barbecue merriment.
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