Jay, who has lived in the Waukesha area for nearly 20 years, is an active volunteer who serves on numerous local boards and committees. He’s married to Colleen with three kids having gone through the Waukesha schools. He is the VP of a local distribution company and currently serves on several area Boards.
A good old-fashioned family picnic in the Town of Brookfield, and you are invited! The Town will celebrate Independence Day on Tuesday, July 4th starting with the 9:00 parade commencing from the Elmbrook Church parking lot. Get your ID number from either Mike Nitka or Art Gaffney and join the floats, fire trucks, colorful wagons, local dignitaries, and costumed kids who are setting the pace to Marx Park on Barker Road for the finest Town Celebration anywhere around.
Get to the park and purchase the incredibly inexpensive food and beverage tickets from David Addington immediately. The town will dedicate it’s shiny new flagpole donated by Wauwatosa Savings followed by the National Anthem sung by Kelly Walt. And then - it’s “hats off" to the most memorable family entertainment in the land!
Brookfield Town Judge JoAnn Eiring presides over the games which she says are structured for ages 0(?) - 62. Sack races, baby crawls, egg and water balloon tosses, and more are anything but “structured”. Mike Payton and Todd Jones will be orchestrating the “Buckets ‘O Fun” giveaway again where bean bags are hurled for a wide array of prizes.
Jump over to the pavilion and sample/eat/ravage some good-eatin’ pie. Colleen Walt, Carol Knott, Ginny Creegan and their friends will be servin-up all kinds of tasty pies to everyone’s delight.
And food? …You want food?…Our well-trained cooking crew has been practicing year-round to ensure the burger centers are grilled exactly to USDA regulations. And our cooks, Paul, Jim, Tim, John, Guy (and whoever else they get to help), have personally assured me that “most if not at least part of the cooking juice will be used for the juicy brats”.
Music by the Bourbon Street Stompers for the 12th consecutive year (they are looking older…), Caitlin Walt will cordinate the awards trophies for all the contests, Fred Berry and Hockey Haven with slap shot opportunities, the world-famous “Hose-down” from our Fire Department, the well-honed, incomparable team of Sam and Jordan serving the food piping hot, and free ice cream and juice boxes for all of the kids make this the “don’t miss/can’t miss” July 4th Event!
And to those male and females who have been “foraging swine-like” in practice for the much-coveted “Golden Pig” Pie-Eating Award, I offer the following advice: Last year’s female award winner actually consumed/inhaled part of the aluminum pie plate underneath after the pie was gone! Yes, competition is tough and heated, but we can rest easy in the Town of Brookfield knowing these steel-gutted competitors live in our midst.
That’s it! The absolutest, bestest, most fantasmagorical, July 4th Celebration ever! Packed with the finest people (mostly from the Town of Brookfield), and it’s right under your nose just east of Waukesha. And I'll see you there - Look for me with the microphone! Grandparents to grandchildren proclaim this to be their favorite family fun-time of the year.
Additional information is available from the Town @ 262-796-3781
