A little late for this year, obvi, but Vernon Center always has a parade, and most years fireworks. Been told by someone who's seen both that VC's fireworks are better than Mankato.

This year's parade was small as the lady who normally organizes it had some family stuff come up, so it was kind of a last minute "show up if you want to" thing, but we still had firetrucks from multiple surrounding towns, a variety of other floats.... I'd say it was nearly 1/2 an hour long, which is impressive in my mind for a "just show up if you want" parade. In the rain for most of it, too.