The Odessa Record - Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!

Have you ever swum in Sewer Lake? Ya, me neither. But I've always heard of the most talked about event that the Reardan Mule Days Association has ever put on, and that has to be the homemade Raft Races on Sewer Lake in the 70's. The event, which is the first weekend of June every year, is epic and legendary around here.

Every year as Mule Days gets closer, you still hear locals talk about it.

Sewer Lake was also the site of Snowmobile Races during Mule Days, which is always held the first weekend in June. Of course, as you are now figuring out, the lake was not frozen in June. I for one,...