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Published March 17, 2011, 12:00 AM

St. Urho’s celebration in pictures


Most in the parade for St. Urho’s festival dressed in caveman attire Saturday in Finland.

  • Most in the parade for St. Urho’s festival dressed in caveman attire Saturday in Finland.
  • The Finland Historical Society held it’s annual pancake breakfast Saturday morning at Zion Lutheran Church.
  • Kids also had some fun coloring their hair purple and green at the festival.
  • Others came prepared to the festivities as one person had an umbrella. It did snow out for part of the day.
  • One paradegoer wore their appreciation for St. Urho on their back.
  • Members of the West Branch Bar and Grill team in Finland defeated Our Place (in the photo), another restaurant in Finland, in a tug of war to kick off the St. Urho’s parade Saturday.
  • Carol Youngberg of Silver Bay, who was the parade organizer for many years, was grand marshall.
  • Many people from around the area gathered at the Clair Nelson Intermodal Center to check out the new facility named after the late commissioner and have some pie.
  • Many people from around the area gathered at the Clair Nelson Intermodal Center to check out the new facility named after the late commissioner and have some pie.
  • Many people from around the area gathered at the Clair Nelson Intermodal Center to check out the new facility named after the late commissioner and have some pie.
  • Many people from around the area gathered at the Clair Nelson Intermodal Center to check out the new facility named after the late commissioner and have some pie.
  • The St. Urho’s Day festival in Finland brought the Flinstones out from Bedrock, a joker, and Ms. Helmi last weekend.
  • Lake County Commissioner Rick Goutermont donned a joker’s hat as he handed out candy to some eager kids.
  • Ms. Helmi, Danny Blackman of the United Kingdom and employee of Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center in Finland, blows a kiss to the crowd at the parade. He sat on a float with a replica of a sabre-toothed grasshopper – the theme for this year’s St. Urho’s festivities Stone Age with the title “St. Urho BC: The Hunt for the Sabertooth Grasshopper.”