Water crisis cancels band festival
Lead Summary
Series of unfortunate circumstances leads to Pioneerland Band Festival’s cancellation
With chairs already lining the parade route for the Pioneerland Band Festival in Benson Friday morning as people reserved their spaces for the 11 marching bands that would perform, Benson lost power...Some bands, such as Bemidji’s, were already on their way to Benson.
As the power was restored just over an hour after it had gone out, no one suspected that the loss of power would lead to the band festival cancellation due to potentially contaminated drinking water.
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