Brynn Fontenot was a shade too short to get to go down the Iola Municipal Pool water slides last summer.
“But we’re going to be all over it this year,” her mother, Brooke White said Monday, while playing with her daughter at Riverside Park.
White, 30, is from Galveston, Texas, and is in town for the week to visit her grandparents, Iolans Mary and Bob White, and her aunt, Kris Rourk.
Brooke White attended Iola schools briefly as a child before moving away as a fifth-grader. She and Brynn plan a week-long excursion to Iola each summer to celebrate July 4.
“We only get to see my grandparents once a year,” she explained.
They’ll be in Kansas until Saturday, long enough to celebrate Independence Day, capped by a visit to the Gas fireworks show.
“We’ve gone there the past couple of years,” she said. “It’s always a good show.”
Brooke White is the daughter of former Iolans Matt and Bobbey White. Matt White is an Iola High School graduate.
Texans enjoy Iola hospitality
