ST. CLOUD NEWS — Headed to 4th on the Lake? Check out the Trolley

  • Captain Richard Lawrence of Toho Riverboat Adventure who brought us the Pearl of the Lake, will be operating a 14-person trolley between downtown and the Lakefront during the city's 4th of July festivities Thursday.TOHO RIVERBOAT ADVENTURE

    Captain Richard Lawrence of Toho Riverboat Adventure who brought us the Pearl of the Lake, will be operating a 14-person trolley between downtown and the Lakefront during the city's 4th of July festivities Thursday.TOHO RIVERBOAT ADVENTURE

    Captain Richard Lawrence of Toho Riverboat Adventure who brought us the Pearl of the Lake, will be operating a 14-person trolley between downtown and the Lakefront during the city's 4th of July festivities Thursday.TOHO RIVERBOAT ADVENTURE

Have you heard about the trolley to take you to and from downtown St. Cloud? Richard Lawrence of Toho Riverboat Adventure will be behind the “wheel” of the all-electric 14-passenger trolley, which will pick up passengers at Lakefront Park, go down Massachusetts Avenue and around the downtown area.

The testing of the downtown trolley will be today during the 4th on the Lake Celebration. The plan is to have the trolley run for free on weekends and during special events.

For now, the trolley is being privately funded by Toho Riverboat Adventures and local business owners—Granny’s Smokehouse, Phyre, Gen-X Pizza and 10th Street Deli.

Make sure you check out the trolley tonight.

Chill out with some family movies during the month of July at the St. Cloud Library. Clifford, the Big Red Dog will be shown on Friday, July 5 at 2 p.m. Come back July 12 for the Super Mario Brother, July 19 for Elemenal, and wrap up the movie series with Wall-E on July 26.

The St. Cloud Library is located at 810 13th St. All Library programs are free and open to the public.

Hopkins Heroes—doing good for the community is what they are all about. They are now accepting donations for their school uniform swap at their Back 2 School Bash on Saturday, Aug. 10. Hopkins Heroes is collecting gently used school items such as polos (any color), bottoms (tan, blue, black, jean) jackets/ sweaters (no pullovers), shoes, bookbags and school supplies for all ages.

The donations will be accepted until Thursday, Aug. 8th. To make a donation and for more information, email StephaniedGilbert77@ gmail. com or call Stephanie at 407709-7394. If you have any St. Cloud news or information that you would like to share, call Lisa Goldmacher at 407-319-9700 or email lcgoldmacher@yahoo.com.