Freedom Festival, bringing back neighborhood block party

BONNERS FERRY — Local businesses on south Main Street are bringing back the old neighborhood block party this Fourth of July. 

For the first time, businesses on Lincoln and Main streets are organizing the 4th of July Freedom Festival, a free family gathering including games, bounce houses, live music, car and motorcycle show, beer garden and much more. 

Mike Kupper, owner of Simple Simon’s Pizza, said the event was inspired in part by past block parties he would organize with neighbors and to host the Iron Memories Motorcycle Show, an annual motorcycle show in Boundary County.