Festival of America 2018

Festival of America July 3-4, 2018

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Fireworks set for July 4 off Grand Coulee Dam

by Roger S. Lucas

Y

es, the fireworks off Grand Coulee Dam will be on July 4 this

year.

Doing the show will be Rocketman Pyro, out of Spokane. It is the third straight year for the Spokane firm to light up the top of Grand Coulee Dam. Speaking for Rocketman Pyro, DanVerHuel said the firm is planning about a 20-minute display.

Workers will start setting up the show, using some 40 cases of explosives, about 9 a.m. July 4.

“Once we gain access to the top of the dam, we are not allowed outside the gates until

the show is over,” VerHuel stated.

The show starts right after the Laser Light Show, which ends about 10:30 p.m., stated Peggy Nevsimal, executive director of the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce.

The prime sponsor of the fireworks show is the Coulee Dam Federal Credit Union, Nevsimal said.

The setup across the top of the dam will take advantage of the full length of the spillway, some 3,086 feet,VerHuel said.

“We plan to light up the full front of the dam to kickoff the show, and this takes over 3,000 feet of setup,” he explained.

“Each year we order some

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12,000 to 13,000 pounds of explosives from China, and are regulated on how they are stored,” he noted.

Rocketman Pyro was started in 2005, with VerHeul and Steve Underwood teaming up as owners.

“When we start setting up the explosives at 9 a.m. the day of the show, it takes us until about 6 to complete everything,” VerHuel said. A team of six people set the show up, a team made up of friends and relatives.

This year’s Grand Coulee Dam show will cost about $10,000, the same as last year.

“We are constantly training

so we can put on a safe show,” VerHeul said. In fact, recently the Rocketman crew was scheduled to put on a “training” show at Medical Lake.

While waiting for the fireworks show, there will be plenty to do with food, crafts and music at the park below the Visitor Center.

Get there early to take advantage of all the activity the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce has organized for visitors.

Last year’s show was staged on the weekend before July 4, and many missed the show because of the change in dates.

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An Army National Guard band plays at the Festival of America on July 4, 2009. — Scott Hunter photo

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State’s “citizen soldiers” headline music on July 4

by Roger S. Lucas

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t’s almost toe tapping time.

Look for a great music evening July 4, as people from all over gather in the shadow of Grand Coulee Dam for the Festival of America.

It’s actually a two-day event, convening on July 3, with arts and crafts booths and plenty of good eats and treats.

The night of music will start with a country band and culminate with a military band that is part of the 133rd Army National Guard Band, based at Camp Murray, Washington.

Kicking off music July 4 is the Jesse Quandt band, coming out of Spokane. Quandt was here last year and promises plenty of toe tapping with his brand of country music, some of which he wrote himself.

Quandt is the vocalist. His band includes Mark Adkins on the guitar, Mike Clukey on the drums, and John Forsman and San Cong rounding out the band.

Quandt described the Grand Coulee Dam venue as “awesome.”

He plans a five-state tour this August.

Quandt and his group will play from 5-7 p.m.

Topping off the evening music will be a 13-member Washington National Guard “rock band”

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known as the “Full Mettle Racket.”

They will perform from 8-10, and end just in time for the Laser Light Show, followed by the Festival of America fireworks off the top of Grand Coulee Dam, beginning about 10:30.

The 13 members of the National Guard coming to Coulee Dam are part of a larger group that comes together one weekend a month and two weeks a year from all walks of life.

The National Guard group is under direction of Sgt. 1st Class Richard Little, who has described his musicians as a “high energy group of Washington Citizen Soldiers.”

The 133rd Army National Guard Band is described on the Washington Military Department’s website as representing “a wide cross section of our community, … music educators and professional musicians, students and other career professionals.”

The musicians in Full Mettle Racket, Sgt. Little said, are “eager to share time on this great day with the people of Washington State who will be enjoying the Festival of America at Grand Coulee Dam.” The group on July 4 will be presenting music styles from classic rock to pop, Motown, and country.

This group will perform from 8-9, then after a short break return and play until 10.

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Jesse Quandt and his band playing at the 2017 Festival of America in front of Grand Coulee Dam. — Scott Hunter photo

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Watching the fireworks off the dam on July 1, 2017. This year the fireworks will fire off on Independence Day, July 4. — Scott Hunter photo

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Safety Tips Obey all local laws regarding the use of fireworks.

Know your fireworks; read the cautionary labels and performance descriptions before igniting.

A responsible adult SHOULD supervise all firework activities. Never give fireworks to children.

Alcohol and fireworks do not mix.

Save your alcohol for after the show.

Wear safety glasses when shooting fireworks.

Light one firework at a time and then quickly move away.

Use fireworks OUTDOORS in a clear area; away from buildings and vehicles.

Never relight a “dud” firework. Wait 20 minutes and then soak it in a bucket of water.

Always have a bucket of water and charged water hose nearby.

Never carry fireworks in your POCKET or shoot them into METAL or GLASS containers.

Do not experiment with homemade fireworks.

Dispose of spent fireworks by wetting them down and place in a metal trash can away from any building or combustible materials until the next day.

FAA regulations PROHIBIT the possession and transportation of fireworks in your checked baggage or carry-on luggage.

Report illegal explosives, like M-80s and quarter sticks, to the fire or police department.

And let’s not forget the safety of our pets!

Don’t bring your pets to a fireworks display, even a small one.

If fireworks are being used near your home, put your pet in a safe, interior room to avoid exposure to the sound.

Make sure your pet has an identification tag, in case it runs off during a fireworks display.

Never shoot fireworks of any kind (consumer fireworks, sparklers, fountains, etc.) near pets.

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The Declaration of Independence IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose We hold these truths to be self- of fatiguing them evident, that all men are created equal, into compliance that they are endowed by their Cre- with his measures. ator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and He has disthe pursuit of Happiness. — That to s o l v e d R e p r e secure these rights, Governments are sentative Houses instituted among Men, deriving their repeatedly, for opjust powers from the consent of the posing with manly governed, — That whenever any Form firmness his invaof Government becomes destructive sions on the rights of these ends, it is the Right of the of the people.

People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying He has refused for a long time, after its foundation on such principles and such dissolutions, to cause others to organizing its powers in such form, be elected, whereby the Legislative as to them shall seem most likely Powers, incapable of Annihilation, to effect their Safety and Happiness. have returned to the People at large Prudence, indeed, will dictate that for their exercise; the State remaining Governments long established should in the mean time exposed to all the not be changed for light and transient dangers of invasion from without, and causes; and accordingly all experience convulsions within. hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufHe has endeavoured to prevent the ferable than to right themselves by population of these States; for that purabolishing the forms to which they pose obstructing the Laws for Naturalare accustomed. But when a long train ization of Foreigners; refusing to pass of abuses and usurpations, pursuing others to encourage their migrations invariably the same Object evinces a hither, and raising the conditions of design to reduce them under absolute new Appropriations of Lands.

Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, He has obstructed the Administraand to provide new Guards for their tion of Justice by refusing his Assent to future security. — Such has been the Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers. patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which He has made Judges dependent on constrains them to alter their former his Will alone for the tenure of their Systems of Government. The history offices, and the amount and payment of the present King of Great Britain is of their salaries. a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the He has erected a multitude of New establishment of an absolute Tyranny Offices, and sent hither swarms of Ofover these States. To prove this, let ficers to harass our people and eat out Facts be submitted to a candid world. their substance.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, He has kept among us, in times of the most wholesome and necessary peace, Standing Armies without the for the public good.

Consent of our legislatures.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to

He has abdicated Government here, our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

Acts of pretended Legislation: He has plundered our seas, ravaged For quartering large bodies of armed our coasts, burnt our towns, and detroops among us: stroyed the lives of our people.

For protecting them, by a mock He is at this time transporting large Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should Armies of foreign Mercenaries to comcommit on the Inhabit- pleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumants of these States: stances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely For cutting off our paralleled in the most barbarous ages, Trade with all parts of and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. the world: He has constrained our fellow CitiFor imposing Taxes on us without our Con- zens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to besent: come the executioners of their friends For depriving us in and Brethren, or to fall themselves by many cases, of the ben- their Hands. efit of Trial by Jury: He has excited domestic insurrecFor transporting us tions amongst us, and has endeavoured beyond Seas to be tried to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages for pretended offences: whose known rule of warfare, is an For abolishing the free System of undistinguished destruction of all ages, English Laws in a neighbouring Province, sexes and conditions. establishing therein an Arbitrary govIn every stage of these Oppressions ernment, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example We have Petitioned for Redress in the and fit instrument for introducing the most humble terms: Our repeated same absolute rule into these Colonies Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose For taking away our Charters, character is thus marked by every act abolishing our most valuable Laws and which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to altering fundamentally the Forms of our be the ruler of a free people.

Governments: Nor have We been wanting in atFor suspending our own Legisla- tentions to our British brethren. We tures, and declaring themselves in- have warned them from time to time vested with power to legislate for us of attempts by their legislature to in all cases whatsoever.

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The Declaration of Independence

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extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here.We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress,Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all

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