Independence Day
July 3rd, 2008, 10:08 am · 2 Comments · posted by Scott Shackford
I’ll be at the Independence Day celebration Friday helping run the “beer garden” with my fellow Rotarians. Feel free to stop by and comment on anything you’d like to say about the content of the newspaper. And to buy some beer if you’re of age. The money is used to fund some of our local programs, such as the “Dictionary Project,” which provides free dictionaries to all Barstow area third graders every year.
Strangely, this will be the first time I’ve actually gotten to see Barstow’s fireworks show. Something has always prevented me from going out there until this year.
July 5th, 2008 at 4:16 am
what happened ? we were promised a big fireworks show.
my cousin and his family from illinois were here and i expected a
big show , cancel that!
July 10th, 2008 at 10:43 am
What I heard from somebody at the city was that there were a couple of significant technical problems. Apparently they had planned out a 30-minute show, but the music was only 20 minutes long, so it didn’t synch up right. In addition, there were a couple of really early detonations that caused other fireworks to not launch.
My understanding is that this is the first time something like this has happened, so although it wasn’t an ideal situation, I suspect it won’t happen again.