Festival honoring once-forgotten historic neighborhood reminds community of its roots

POCATELLO – An event that celebrates and preserves the once-forgotten history of a historic neighborhood will take place Saturday.

The Lasting Legacy Festival, an annual event organized jointly by Neighborworks Pocatello and the Bonneville Neighborhood Association which honor’s Pocatello’s Historic Triangle Neighborhood, is scheduled for next Saturday, Sept, 27. The event will take place at Purce Park, located at the corner of North 7th Avenue and East Fremont Street, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

“It’s important for us to remember the roots of many families, many who are immigrants who had come to this country, and then eventually settled in Pocatello … because we are here because of what they went through,” said Alfreda Vann, secretary of the Bonneville Neighborhood Association, who spent the