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The
chairman of Wake Forest’s Fourth of July
Committee, Rhonda Alderman, and her
committee have lined up honor guards, a
popular band, and an array of people and
groups for this year’s stadium and
fireworks show.
This will be the 35th
year of the home-grown, all-volunteer
event.
It will span two days with
the stadium and fireworks show on
Tuesday, July 3, and the Children’s
Parade, Art-in-the-Park and
Games-in-the-Park Wednesday, July 4.
The gates at Trentini
Stadium on the Wake Forest-Rolesville
High School campus will open at 5:30.
Admission is $5, and children 6 and
younger are admitted free. You can
purchase pre-event tickets at the Wake
Forest Chamber of Commerce, The Wake
Weekly, The Red Door, Premieres Video,
N. C. Specialty Shops, Lighthouse
Candles & Fine Gifts and Full Moor
Italian Café.
Deep Magic Joshua Lozoff
will entertain the children with his
close-up magic from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The Band of Oz will be on
stage, and parachuters from the Southern
Skies Parachute Team will land in the
stadium.
Also taking the stage will
be the Friendship Chapel Baptist Church
Choir, the Pipes and Drum Band from Wake
County EMS, honor guards from Wake
County EMS and the Wake Forest Fire
Department, Robert Davis with the Wake
County Sheriff’s Department singing the
National Anthem, and Jim Dyer as master
of ceremonies.
Lady Liberty and Uncle Sam
will retire the American flag before the
fireworks begin at dusk.
Lineup for the Children’s
Parade begins at 10 a.m. at the
intersection of North Main Street and
West Juniper Avenue with the parade
scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. It is
walking parade but battery-operated
vehicles, wagons, bicycles and scooters
are welcome. Everyone in the parade will
get a balloon.
There will be a best-costume
contest, and the selected boy and girl
will each receive a $25 savings bond
given by the Wake Forest Veterans of
Foreign Wars Post 8466.
The games and art will be
held in Holding Park on East Owen Avenue
and South Main Street from 11 a.m. to 1
p.m.
The games will include a
tug-of-war, a water balloon toss,
watermelon-seed spitting, and sack
races.
Alderman said one of the
Wake Forest Police Department’s K-9 dogs
will give a demonstration, and the Wake
Forest Fire Department will have a fire
truck on site.
There will be face painting,
sun visor decorating, cookie decorating
and other arts and crafts projects.
The police department will
also be conducting child identifications
at the Community House.
All of this costs between
$25,000 and $30,000, raised through the
gate receipts and sponsorships to pay
for the stadium rental, fireworks, band,
parachuters and prizes.
If you want to help with the
event or with the costs, you can reach
Alderman at 812-9121 or at
fireworklady@aol.com. |
