This Independence Day, America celebrated the freedoms that we hold so dearly, freedoms that many of us nowadays take for granted. As we reflect on some of the scenes of celebration in Cascade this 4th of July week, let us be ever mindful of preserving and protecting these freedoms for our future generations.

Lest we forget, we offer this excerpt as a reminder:

In Congress, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which...