ALDEN — Alden residents will honor the health professionals in their community this weekend during the annual Morin Lake Days.

The celebration will begin at noon Friday with the start of the medallion hunt at City Hall. Clues will be posted on the front door of City Hall each day at noon and 6 p.m. until the medallion is found. The prize money is $50.

The day features a fishing contest at Morin Lake, a supper, a kiddie parade and tractor pull, softball tournaments and a free family show in the Alden-Conger School gymnasium.

Saturday begins with a pancake breakfast and the Morin Lake Days Fun Run, in which participants can take part in a 10-kilometer, three-mile run or a one-mile run/walk. The cost to sign up was $12 through June 16 and $15 after.

The parade, which recognizes the staff of Alden Dental and Mayo Clinic Health System in Alden as grand marshals, begins at 7 p.m., followed by a classic car cruise and show on Broadway.

Separate street dances will be held for teenagers and adults, and fireworks will go off at dusk over Morin Lake.

The weekend wraps up with a pancake breakfast and worship service Sunday and a production of “Miss Nelson is Missing.” Morin Lake Days Chairwoman Ann Bryson said the performance will be one of the highlights of the weekend. It will feature children in third through eighth grade who have been taught in theater camp by Dylan Kaercher all week.

Kaercher worked with Alden-Conger’s drama department to present “Legally Blonde.”

 

Schedule

 

Friday, June 20

Noon: MLD Medallion Hunt Begins

1-8 p.m.: Wes Hintz Fishing Contest, Morin Lake

4-7 p.m.: Supper by the Lake

6:30 p.m.: Kiddie parade on Water Street

7 p.m.: Tractor pull

8:30 p.m.: Free family show at the Alden-Conger gym

 

Saturday, June 21

All day: Softball, volleyball tournaments, food stands

8-11 a.m.: Legion pancake breakfast

8-11 a.m.: Coffee, treats at United Methodist Church

9 a.m.: Fun run

Noon-4 p.m.: Community museum

2-4 p.m.: Canoe races

2:30-6:30 p.m.: inflatable fun by the lake

7 p.m.: Parade starting at Alden-Conger high school football field

8-midnight: Teen and adult street dances

Dusk: Fireworks

 

Sunday, June 22

All Day: Softball tournament and food stand

9 a.m.-noon: Lion’s Club pancake breakfast

9:30 a.m.: Worship by the water, Morin lake boat landing

1 p.m.: Theatre camp production of “Miss Nelson is Missing”, Alden-Conger Knights Stage

4 p.m.: Canoe use with cash donation to Alden food shelf