Water fights were within the rules
Dear Editor:
My brother, Tom, and I competed in the Ouray Volunteer Fire Department’s 4th of July water fights this year for the first time. I’ve lived here over 16 years and my brother for 6, and though we had never before considered entering the competition, we are so stoked that we did! We were wrangled into “volunteering” for the event two weeks before the fights, and though we were both anxious leading into it, we were blown away by the support of the community members and visitors a...