Chances are pretty good, if you’re reading this, you were at the homecoming parade Oct. 4. Most of town seemed to be, anyway!

If you were there, thank you. It is overwhelming every year to see the support of our community every first Friday of October when we parade down Victory Way for Homecoming. But this year, Moffat County outdid itself.

The parade was fantastic, to start. We’ll toot our horn for part of that. District and school personnel showed up and showed out. What a fantastic set of displays from almost every angle of Moffat County School District. Representation like that is fantastic, and it’s impossible not to be grateful for the staff who designed, built and walked or drove the floats down main street.

Note: That Friday wasn’t a work day. Every staff member who showed up for the parade was doing so because they love the district and love this town.

It wasn’t just district representation, though! The city of Craig, Moffat County, businesses and community folks of all types were out there, walking, dancing, cartwheeling and driving. It was so good to see our first responders, our veterans, and so many other community groups celebrating Moffat County School District and Moffat County together.

It seemed like if you weren’t in the parade, you must’ve been watching it, and that is as big a deal as anything else. It’s not worth getting all decorated up just to drive slowly on Victory Way for nobody. The street was lined with friends. It was a beautiful day, and the weather was only half of it.

Thank you so much, Moffat County, for showing up to support our schools at that parade. We’ve heard from so many of you who loved this year’s display, and we’re just so, so grateful that you were there to see it and join in the celebration with us.

It’s this kind of shared joy that makes us hopeful about the future of Craig and Moffat County. It’s the way we show up. That’s what makes this place special, isn’t it? That’s why, despite historic changes to this place coming soon and the uncertainty off what comes next looming in front of us, we all feel so confident it’s going to work out.

Moffat County is great, and that’s what was on display Friday, Oct. 4, when the school district and its friends paraded down Victory for Homecoming. It’s great to come home, and it’s great to be home.

Go Bulldogs, go Craig and go Moffat County.