Token Creek Independence Day 2022
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Photo highlights from the Token Creek Independence Day Festival held on Monday, July 4, 2022 on Portage Road in unincorporated Token Creek. The community is located just west of Sun Prairie on Highway 19.
Presentation of the Colors
Presentation of the Colors & Bike Contest winner
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam greeted attendees at the 2022 Token Creek Independence Day Festival on Portage Road on Monday, July 4, and distributed U.S. flags until his supply was depleted.
Ziegler bucket
RIGHT: The Ziegler Plumbing folks didn’t mess around during the water fights at the July 4 Token Creek Parade: They brought a water bucket to a squirt gun fight, as one spectator learned the hard way when she received a bucketful of water.
Token Creek Circle of Freedom
LEFT: Spectators at the Token Creek Parade joined hands and sang along with Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” raising their hands during the chorus “And I’m proud to be an American . . .” and at the ending. One attendee from Minnesota said she had never seen anything like it at any festival she’d attended previously. Watch the video on The Star’s Facebook page at
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West Wolves Water War
LEFT: Sun Prairie West High School Wolves football players were wet and well-represented during this water war with Token Creek Parade spectators. The Wolves re-filled their squirt guns from a mini-van they walked behind during the festival. Although rain fell before the parade, spectators remained mostly dry during the parade — unless they were in the path of a squirt gun.
Mike Jacobs campaigns in parade
The only 46th Assembly District candidate to make an appearance in the Token Creek Parade on July 4 was Sun Prairie District 3 Alder Mike Jacobs (left, waving) and his wife (right) with their dog (not pictured) and Sun Prairie District 1 Alder Steve Stocker (center).
Woman belts out National Anthem
BELOW: Windsor resident Laura Long belted out the National Anthem at the beginning of the 2022 Token Creek Parade, held on July 4 as part of Token Creek Independence Day Festival activities. Master of Ceremonies Marc Lovicott from Juke Box Bandstand in Token Creek said, “She auditioned last year and we selected her. We were so impressed with her performance, we invited her back again this year.”
Wet guy shakes hands with Kalvin Barrett
Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett shook hands with a clearly wet acquaintance during the Token Creek Parade on July 4 in unincorporated Token Creek. The sheriff avoided most of the squirt gun water attacks that other parade units engaged in.
Bike Contest winner from Sun Prairie
Token Creek officials awarded 6-year-old Sun Prairie resident Brynn Shaughnessy an award in the Token Creek Independence Day Festival vehicle decorating contest for her decked out red, white and blue bicycle.
Candy throwers
LEFT: The owners of The Shed in Token Creek and Springfield Corners in Dane rode in a souped-up classic car and threw candy to spectators in the Token Creek Parade — part of the Token Creek Independence Day Festival on July 4, 2022.
