 While this past weekend marked the unofficial start of summer in Minnesota and the city of Bemidji will kick off the summer vacation season in grand style with a beach party. The city of Bemidji will celebrate summer once school lets out for the year on this Friday. There will be fun and games for kids of all ages at the Lake Bemidji South Beach. This is the second beach party that has been hosted by the Parks and Rec department and they're looking forward to yet another fun event. We have an awesome beach party planned. We have a DJ lined up. We have sandcastle competitions. We have our camp counselors going to be down at the beach running some really fun games and it's just a great way to kick off the summer. Now prior to the start of the beach party the parks department will host another event. The city of Bemidji will unveil its strategic plan along with a new logo for the Parks and Recreation department. The strategic parks plan has been in the works for the past couple of years. We will kind of be showing off our new strategic plan which includes our new vision mission statement. Some of our core values and then our goals for the next couple of years of things we're going to be working on. So we'll have cake as a way to appreciate everybody so we just encourage the public to come down and any of our partners who have helped us with this process. Now the strategic plan will be unveiled at 2.30 Friday afternoon before the start of the beach party which is set to begin at 3.30 and run until five.