Four smaller displays instead of Victoria Park annual firework display
Published March 13, 2011 | 
TOWER Hamlets Council has decided to cancel the annual November fireworks display at Victoria Park.
Cost-cutting measures by the council, which has to save £55 million from this year’s budget, have forced the popular show to be called off.
Instead there will be four ‘community-based’ events across the borough which will remain free at King Edward Memorial Park, Mile End Stadium, Millwall Park and Weaver’s Fields.
Mayor Lutfur Rahman said: “The Victoria Park fireworks event has been successful for many years, but for too long the council has footed the entire bill for the event despite most of the people who go there living outside of the borough.
“In taking this decision, I wanted to make sure that our residents are the people who really benefit from our fantastic firework displays. We’re taking the displays out to the people of this borough.
“We are making it more accessible to our residents and giving thousands more local families a chance to enjoy fireworks for free.”
The Victoria Park display regularly attracts tens of thousands of fans from across London and is designed with a different theme every year.
But the council said it had listened to local residents, some of whom have complained at mass-participation events, in making the decision.
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Leave a commentJuly 4th Fireworks
Published June 4, 2010 | 
The American giant store Macy’s will be holding its annual 4th July fireworks party onboard a Norweigan cruise liner. The display is broadcast live on TV to millions of Americans and the show will start this year at 9pm.
The store holds its annual fireworks extravaganza at different locations each year although we think that onboard the latest Norweigan cruise liner must be one of the most unusual. In its 33rd year, this year is surely one fireworks display not to be missed.
If you are in the UK and want to join in the 4th July festivities then you can buy fireworks and cheap fireworks from Monster Fireworks.
Posted in United Kingdom, United States | 4th, annual, cruise, fireworks, july, year | Leave a commentMontreal Fireworks 2008, Day I , Part 3, Final
Published April 28, 2010 |
Hope you will enjoy it. I always do. Montreal annual fireworks. 2008 .Day I . French. French. Countries to come: Italy, South Korea,China, Canada, USA, Austria,Portugal, Australia, Countries to come: Italy, South Korea,China, Canada, USA, Austria,Portugal, Australia,
Posted in Firework Videos | 2008, amazing, annual, Australia, canada, competition, fireworks, French, Italy, montreal, POrtugal, Quebec | Leave a commentThe annual fireworks display at Meadowdale Park
Published February 9, 2010 | Display location:Meadowdale Park
City:Edmonds
State: Illinois
Date:June 26
Display Company: Mad Bomber Productions, Andy James
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Details: CARPENTERSVILLE — There still will be bang, even for less buck, at the Dundee Township Park District’s annual pre-Fourth of July fireworks.
The Carpentersville Village Board recently gave unanimous approval to a request from the park district to have its annual fireworks display on Saturday, June 26, at Meadowdale Park. The village board had voted in December not to give its usual $7,500 donation toward those fireworks — the first cut from its 2010-11 budget.
Fireworks have been the first to go as many area communities continue to cut their budgets in the struggling economy. Elgin and Chicago both have announced they will not sponsor Fourth of July displays in 2010.
But Deputy Director Jim Miller said Thursday the park district still plans to hold its fireworks display, with or without a financial donation from Carpentersville.
“We’ll still do a show, and the fireworks company says it will be a good one,” Miller said.
The park district works with Mad Bomber Fireworks Productions of Elgin to put on the display.
The deputy director said he still hopes the fireworks show will last as long as usual, but he said there may be fewer fireworks and longer breaks between the colorful explosions.
Carpentersville co-sponsored the event last year and was the only village in the township that helped fund the annual event. It also contributed support from its police and fire departments.
Village President Ed Ritter said the village still plans to support the event with on-duty police officers and firefighters without “any extra cost to the village.”
Miller said, “We couldn’t do it without their being there to do that.”
Carpentersville’s 2010-11 budget has not been set yet. But the village is discussing ways to cut nearly $2 million from that money plan and boost its decreasing revenue.
When some of those proposed cuts include laying off police and fire department employees, plus allowing the village’s infrastructure to decay, cutting fireworks was a relatively easy decision, Ritter said.
“We had an idea fireworks would go on even if we couldn’t donate,” he said. “If we had known we would be the canceling factor, we might have reached a different decision.”
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