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It’s that time again, time for a big,
super-duper Fourth of July fireworks and
stadium show, and you probably need to
go early to secure a parking space and a
seat in the stadium.
The gates open at Trentini
Stadium on the Wake Forest-Rolesville
High campus at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July
3. 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.
At 6 p.m. the Friendship
Chapel Choir will take the stage,
followed at 6:30 by the Band of Oz. The
first parachute jump by the Southern
Skies Parachute Team will take place
then.
The formal ceremony will
begin at 7:45 p.m. The honor guard for
the evening will be made up of members
of the Wake Forest Fire Department and
the Wake County EMS. Wake County EMS
will also provide the Pipes & Drum Band.
Jim Dyer, the master of
ceremonies, will lead the crowd in the
Pledge of Allegiance followed by the
National Anthem sung by Deputy Robert
Davis with the Wake County Sheriff’s
Department.
Ryan Hutchinson, a vice
president with the Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary, will give the
invocation, and Wake Forest Mayor Vivian
Jones.
At the end of the program,
Fourth of July Committee chairman Rhonda
Alderman plans a special tribute to a
long-time volunteer with the committee.
The Band of Oz will resume
playing about 8:15 p.m. while everyone
waits for the fireworks show, which
should begin about 9:30. During the
wait, there will be a second parachute
jump with introductions and a drawing
for Shop with a Cop.
The stadium show and
fireworks are just half of the holiday’s
events, which continue on Wednesday,
July 4, with the Children’s Parade and
activities in Holding Park.
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 helping parents with child
identification kits 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,
parachutists 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. |
