Photo by Donna Campbell Several hundred people gathered on Storm Avenue Thursday afternoon for the neighborhood’s annual Fourth of July celebration. After a short patriotic program held on the porch of the recently-renovated Butterfield Mansion, attendees gathered for a parade down the avenue. The celebration included food, water slides, games, music, rides on a children’s train, bubbles and balloons. Pictured, Kim Jordan blows bubbles as her 5-year-old daughter Hayes waits to pop them.

Photo by Donna Campbell Several hundred people gathered on Storm Avenue Thursday afternoon for the neighborhood’s annual Fourth of July celebration. After a short patriotic program held on the porch of the recently-renovated Butterfield Mansion, attendees gathered for a parade down the avenue. The celebration included food, water slides, games, music, rides on a children’s train, bubbles and balloons. Pictured, a group of teens and pre-teens make their way down Storm Avenue in the afternoon heat.

Photo by Donna Campbell Several hundred people gathered on Storm Avenue Thursday afternoon for the neighborhood’s annual Fourth of July celebration. After a short patriotic program held on the porch of the recently-renovated Butterfield Mansion, attendees gathered for a parade down the avenue. The celebration included food, water slides, games, music, rides on a children’s train, bubbles and balloons. Pictured, Kenneth Wooten’s great-grandson Christopher Bordelon is all smiles as he sits with his great-grandfather and points to a balloon on the ceiling of the canopy tent where they watched the goings-on out of the sun’s rays.