Disappointing turn-out for the “Citizens” 4th of July fireworks.

After hours of preparation and thousands of dollars spent, only a few hundred people  ended up showing up to the small Fourth of July event.   Looking around the baseball stadium just before the show where the fireworks show was to take place, it felt like less than half the seats were filled.  The show seemed weak and anti-climatic – almost something you could put together with your neighborhood friends.

This is especially disappointing due to the large number of people who appeared to be interested in setting up a second fireworks show.  Over 4000 people registered for a group online called “Keep the 4^th of July on the 4^th” but with only a few hundred actually showing up for the event, it’s become evident that the majority of those were people interested in watching the controversy rather than interested in the group itself.  This makes sense when diving deeper into the facebook page and seeing that only about 130 people have signed the groups official petition.

Discussion on the facebook page has died off over the last week – even before the event took place –  and only 5 people out of the 4,000 have commented anything on the fireworks since the show.    The group is now talking about organizing to continue with the multi-day celebration next year – even though the main fireworks show will already be held on the fourth of July.  This has some people questioning the logic or real purpose of of the group – if they will be having a fireworks show on the 3^rd or 5^th of July next year when the original purpose of the group was to protest that very thing.  But with the poor showing this year, the mediocre event for the thousands of dollars spent, and the lack of even less interest next year, raising funds for such an event will be an uphill battle.

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