Let's celebrate Canada Day on Miramichi with spectacular fireworks display
School’s out for summer.
Gardeners and sport fishermen are in their glory and kids, both young and old, are outside getting dirty.
It’s summertime on the Miramichi.
I remember lazy summers when I was a kid, riding bikes through woods and the mud, over hill and dale, climbing trees and falling out of them.
Summer time on the Miramichi was always a good time.
Especially the Canada Day fireworks. I remember fireworks shows where the sky over the Miramichi was lit up with every colour of the rainbow.
Funny the things you hold onto. As we get older, we see things that we didn’t even know were important to us in a new light.
Fireworks for Canada Day were just something that happened. I never really gave them any thought until last year when much to the chagrin of just about everybody on the river, the former city council decided not to hold the annual Canada Day fireworks.
Something important had disappeared and a lot of people took notice. Like the great Joni Mitchell sings so wonderfully, “Don’t it always seem to go, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, they pave paradise, put up a parking lot.”
The fireworks on the river have always been a gathering, a chance to catch up with old friends and make new ones. More than that, they’re a part of our culture, part of what makes us who we are.
The fireworks are a celebration, a way of saying we’re Canadian and we’re proud. They happen in small towns and huge cities all across this vast and wonderful land. They remind us of who we are and they unite us as a people.
Plus they’re just plain fun. The anticipation, the boom, the flash and the glow, the oohs and ahhs from the gathered crowd, some friends and neighbours, some strangers you’ve never met, but all there for the same reason. To admire the magnificent glittering lights in the heavens and to have a good time.
Master fireworks maker Bill Withrow said, "I often use the word "joy" when describing fireworks. It is a considered word, deliberate in choice. Not just amusement, entertainment, astonishment, but joy. We become one in our experience for the moment, lost in the sound and colour and light. We see large forces, stronger than we could ever be, yet beautiful in their effects.”
Nice words. And anyone who’s ever stood under a Miramichi sky and watched the heavens light up, knows exactly what he’s talking about.
Hopefully, this new council has a little more sense than the one we just got rid of and has someone organizing one of the best fireworks displays this river’s ever seen. Help spread some much-needed joy to the fine citizens of Miramichi as we celebrate the birthday of this great country with a spectacular fireworks show.
Gardeners and sport fishermen are in their glory and kids, both young and old, are outside getting dirty.
It’s summertime on the Miramichi.
I remember lazy summers when I was a kid, riding bikes through woods and the mud, over hill and dale, climbing trees and falling out of them.
Summer time on the Miramichi was always a good time.
Especially the Canada Day fireworks. I remember fireworks shows where the sky over the Miramichi was lit up with every colour of the rainbow.
Funny the things you hold onto. As we get older, we see things that we didn’t even know were important to us in a new light.
Fireworks for Canada Day were just something that happened. I never really gave them any thought until last year when much to the chagrin of just about everybody on the river, the former city council decided not to hold the annual Canada Day fireworks.
Something important had disappeared and a lot of people took notice. Like the great Joni Mitchell sings so wonderfully, “Don’t it always seem to go, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, they pave paradise, put up a parking lot.”
The fireworks on the river have always been a gathering, a chance to catch up with old friends and make new ones. More than that, they’re a part of our culture, part of what makes us who we are.
The fireworks are a celebration, a way of saying we’re Canadian and we’re proud. They happen in small towns and huge cities all across this vast and wonderful land. They remind us of who we are and they unite us as a people.
Plus they’re just plain fun. The anticipation, the boom, the flash and the glow, the oohs and ahhs from the gathered crowd, some friends and neighbours, some strangers you’ve never met, but all there for the same reason. To admire the magnificent glittering lights in the heavens and to have a good time.
Master fireworks maker Bill Withrow said, "I often use the word "joy" when describing fireworks. It is a considered word, deliberate in choice. Not just amusement, entertainment, astonishment, but joy. We become one in our experience for the moment, lost in the sound and colour and light. We see large forces, stronger than we could ever be, yet beautiful in their effects.”
Nice words. And anyone who’s ever stood under a Miramichi sky and watched the heavens light up, knows exactly what he’s talking about.
Hopefully, this new council has a little more sense than the one we just got rid of and has someone organizing one of the best fireworks displays this river’s ever seen. Help spread some much-needed joy to the fine citizens of Miramichi as we celebrate the birthday of this great country with a spectacular fireworks show.
posted by Street Wise Guy | 3:59 AM
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