The fun of the waterfights

Porter is a small town, not the small town they talk about in the movies of about 20,000 people.

This is a SMALL town —maybe 200 people.

But when the Porter Harvest Fest comes around, the meaning of "small town" comes to life.

It really isn't as much a "Fest" or a "Festival" as it is a "HOMECOMING."

It's kinda like they were younger again, like they stepped out of the corn field in the "Field of Dreams" and suddenly they were all there, like family, and certainly like friends.

Saturday Porter was in fine form, and nothing said it stronger than the annual Porter Fire Department Water Fights.

These days its mostly another "kids" event — but it's enjoyed just the same.

Take friends Josie Frank of Canby, Claire Stoks of Porter and Josie Richards of Grantsburg, WI. They don't see each other all that often. For Richards, it's once a year at the Porter Harvest Fest.

But when they get together, it's one good time after another.

Saturday at the waterfights, Frank got this infectious laugh that spread to Stoks and then to Richards. They tried to aim the hose at the floating bucket to win the water fight, but when supreme laughter broke out, the water fight was over, they'd lost but all was well.

Such is the way it is at the Porter Harvest Fest.

There's just nothing better than good friends .... community ... and another weekend together!