Returning from a three-hour tour including the rejuvenated boat parade is the USS Minnow. The Gilligan's Island themed float started at Behm's Restaurant on the south side of Grand Lake, floated by Lake Shore Drive and concluded its tour at Harbor Point. After a 15-year hiatus the boat parade is planned to continue in 2007, with prizes.

Hot, sultry and successful. Those were the words used by organizers to describe the 2006 Celina Lake Festival held this past weekend. "We battled the weather," festival co-chair Michelle Emerine said this morning. A thunders . . .