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Username: 9936sussex
Post Number: 139
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 - 6:21 pm: |    |
OK--maybe I'm totally out of the loop, and I missed reading this somewhere, but....what happened to the Freedom Festival? Isn't that what the fireworks was about? I'm hearing on the news about GM River Days....and that the fireworks on Monday are part of that. Anyone have any info? Thanks in advance! |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 2552
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 - 7:17 pm: | |
It's still there, just River Days is the name of the carnival/concert stage they have along the Riverwalk.
The Freedom Festival (which is at Hart Plaza) isn't until Monday and this is the last day for Rivers Days. |
9936sussex
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Username: 9936sussex
Post Number: 141
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 - 7:55 pm: | |
Detroitrise: Thanks for the info! I knew someone on this site would know! |
Bigglenlake
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Username: Bigglenlake
Post Number: 159
Registered: 05-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 12:24 am: | |
GM just wanted this year to be really crisp. So they have tightened up the whole program. |
Royce
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Username: Royce
Post Number: 2644
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 1:27 am: | |
The fireworks display was the culmination of the Freedom Festival, which includes the celebration of Canada's Victoria Day, July 1st. So, if the Freedom Festival still exists, then what will be the culminating activity? Fireworks eleven days before the Fourth of July, that's just too soon. |
Royce
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Username: Royce
Post Number: 2648
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 3:58 am: | |
^Bump. |
Sean_of_detroit
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Username: Sean_of_detroit
Post Number: 883
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 8:30 am: | |
If anyone is going and wants to meet up, please post in the Connect section. |
Gravitymachine
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Username: Gravitymachine
Post Number: 2166
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 8:55 am: | |
so if canada's victoria day is the 1st, and our independance day the 4th, why are the fireworks in the third weekend in june? |
Upinottawa
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Username: Upinottawa
Post Number: 1097
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 9:12 am: | |
BTW, July 1st is Canada Day (formerly known as Dominion Day -- don't ask). Canada Day celebrates the establishment of Canada as a country (though not a fully independent country) on July 1, 1867.
As for the fireworks, for years they were held on the Wednesday before Canada Day. Why? I have no idea. |