Fireworks on the 3rd?
By Tim Goodwin, Mayor
If you thought July 3 was a strange date to pick for Independence Day fireworks, you weren’t the only one. Believe it or not, there was a good reason. The City could either do it on July 3 or not do it at all; the reason being that the City discovered late in the process that the pyrotechnic group hired to display the City’s fireworks had its license pulled in another state for unsafe practices. The City, after researching other companies, finally found a local pyrotechnic group who was licensed to display the fireworks for Folly. There was one glitch: they were already completely booked for the 4th of July. Based on this information and knowing that there were no other pyrotechnics who could do it on July 4 , the City of Folly Beach decided to hire the local group and display the fireworks on July 3.
In an effort to notify the residents of the change, the City put this information on the City’s web site, announced it at council meetings, put it on the sign located near the Toll Booth property and put flyers up in the commercial district announcing July 3 as the date fireworks would be d
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