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By Elizabeth Brown
Residents of Washington City are excited to celebrate the city’s 151st birthday during the annual Cotton Days festivities, May 5-10. The theme of the festival is “Cotton Days 2008: Feels Like Home.”“People come to Washington City for hundreds of reasons. They come back for only one – Washington City feels like home,” Mayor Terrill Clove stated in a message posted on the city’s Web site. “Here, every season brings something new to celebrate. Our matchless climate, in this green oasis amid the stunning red rock, makes Washington City a home for all seasons, a home for life.”“Cotton Days is really family oriented,” said Kimberly Ruesch of the Washington City administrative office. “We have a little something going on each night. It used to be only a weekend, but last year we did it for a whole week, and we got a good response, so we’re doing the whole week again.”Serving as grand marshal for Cotton Days 20...