JUly 4th Events in the Pinebelt

[noway]

Petal...Saturday July 1st Petal High School 5:30 PM Music, Food, Fireworks 8:30

OakGrove...Sunday July 2nd Temple Baptist Church service at 7 Fireworks 9:00 West Campus

Laurel.... Monday July 3rd 9:15 PM Cowboy Maloney's Parking Lot

Hattiesburg.... Jaycees Cookout for COPS Tuesday July 4th 11-2 Police, Fire, EMS Welcome
Jaycees Building 208 Hutchinson Ave

Paul B Johnson State Park Tuesday July 4th 8:45 PM Fireworks

Alot of things happening in the PineBelt this weekend leading up to the 4th of July.. Everyone enjoy the weekend..

Anyone know of anything else Please post and tell us about it..

:musicband :rastafari :downapint :blowingup :smt056

[Lylabean]

Sumrall has something going on Saturday..there is an ugly pet contest at 10:30am and some other stuff afterwards. It was in the Impact..guess I threw it away.

[justme]

USM and ther symphony used to do a show with patriotic music and fireworks out at the base ball field or the intramural fields. Does anyone know what happened to that show? It was really good.

[aaron]

USM and ther symphony used to do a show with patriotic music and fireworks out at the base ball field or the intramural fields. Does anyone know what happened to that show? It was really good.

yeah, we used to watch it from our apartment complex. I know a couple of years ago they changed the location to be somewhere around the coliseum and we watched it from the field at the Payne Center. No idea if it's going to happen this year.

[noway]

How was the Petal July 1st celebration?:smt070

[Conveyor Belt]

Jeez... I'm kinda disappointed, but not really...

We decided to go about 8:20 or so instead of going at 6 and being there for 3 hours with an increasingly impaitent 4 yo. However, they had a lot of fun blow up things (bouncer, slide, etc.) set up for the kids. We got there at 8:30 and found the last remaining parking spot in the first parking lot in front of the HS. We walked amonst the new buildings we've onle seen in passing and got to the field where everyone was seated in their collapsable chairs. Some two guy country act was on the stage. We moved away from that, but still... They started singing some song about Jesus as their last song and my wife and I started cracking jokes about Jesus and the song just so we wouldn't have to listen to it. So, that was kind of annoying.

Then, there's this big gap, about 20 min, between the two bumpkins and the fireworks. They filled the gap by playing stadium songs over the system. Then the fireworks started. No intro, no patriotic speeches, nothing. The fireworks were going up and "Play That Funky Music" was playing over the speakers. It didn't really sync too well... After that song finished, they finally found their Sousa cd and started playing one of the marches. Then they played it again, and again, and again. They played the same march 5 times in a row before they played a different one.

As for the fireworks, I was expecting more. The HA said they spent like $9000 or something on them. Don't get me wrong, they lasted like 20 min, which is a pretty lenghty display. However, I prefer quality over quantity when it comes to fireworks. I see in the HA today the pictures of them setting up and it looks like they just raided the local fireworks stand of anything that cost over $50. You know those big $100 fireworks you wonder who buys? Now I know, and now I know what they look like.

The worst part, or funniest to me, was the end. After the last big shell went off, they were still shooting some Saturn missles, which was SO funny to me at the time, and now just sounds sad...

The last fireworks display I saw was in Disney. Those are synced with music, etc, and go BOOM not 'pip'. Then, after the last of the Saturn missles went up everyone clapped and walked back to their cars with the sounds of "Honky -Tonk Badonk-a-donk" booming over the speakers. It was kind of embarrassing. I know Petal's full of middle class hicks, but, c'mon...

[noway]

Thanks c-belt.. :smt102

Flint Creek Waterpark Fireworks is Tuesday around 830..

Reminder about the OAK Grove Firework show tonight...

[noway]

I went to firework show at flint creek water park. Had a good time, drank some beer, saw some bikinis, and waited in traffic for an hour leaving the park.. I dont get out much because of work but I really had a great time today with the cookout and firework show.,.