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Best fireworks [poll]
Here's where you get to tell the world what you think. Every week you get to vote on the best that the Dayton area has to offer in entertainment, restaurants, recreation & and a few other bizarro categories.
Voting in this category ends on July 6.
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Best fireworks [poll]
Here's where you get to tell the world what you think. Every week you get to vote on the best that the Dayton area has to offer in entertainment, restaurants, recreation & and a few other bizarro categories.
Voting in this category ends on July 6.
We have REVISED our official rules »
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By Virgil
July 3, 2009 3:25 AM | Link to this
Good morning. Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. I am from Kyrgyzstan and too poorly know English, please tell me right I wrote the following sentence: “Health overhaul means big medicare changes.”
Regards :) Virgil.
July 2, 2009 4:10 PM | Link to this
discontinue digestion:rendering Bausch uplands meters visually Cretaceous:audit
July 2, 2009 12:42 AM | Link to this
Тем, кто ищет свою вторую половинку заграницей Расскажет и научит вас вебсайт http://www.mydatelove.com
By WEBN Fan
July 1, 2009 4:06 PM | Link to this
THe best fireworks all year, by far, are the WEBN Fireworks at the river on Labor Day! Never miss them!
July 1, 2009 2:58 PM | Link to this
Уроки счастья или как встретить свою любовь на Западе Расскажет и научит вас вебсайт http://www.mydatelove.com
By K
July 1, 2009 12:25 PM | Link to this
Best locally is City of Dayton on July 3. But you need to be in a location that is a bit elevated because there is a part that is low and hard to see but I applaud the effort. The best I have ever seen has to be Chicago’s at the Taste of Chicago. Shot off Navy Pier WOW!!! The show was spectacular but the traffic leaving the area was a horrific nightmare.
June 30, 2009 11:49 PM | Link to this
Тем, кто ищет свою вторую половинку заграницей Расскажет и научит вас вебсайт http://www.mydatelove.com
By Ashy
June 30, 2009 1:38 PM | Link to this
Curious, Erika, did you get a lot of the fallout ashes and such all over you at last year’s riverscape fireworks? I was at the main stage for CityFolk and I sure did. Maybe it is because, as you said, I was too close.
Kettering’s fireworks are great, as are the ones at King’s island. We leave the park and find a place within distance to stop and watch to avoid all the traffic leaving.
By Erika
June 30, 2009 10:49 AM | Link to this
Last year Fourth of July celebration at Riverscape was ok. The fireworks were to close and then by the end of the show you couldn’t see the display because of the smoke, maybe I was to close.
June 30, 2009 6:49 AM | Link to this
I’m not all that big a fan of any of the local fireworks displays because they all tend to ‘bunch up’ the fireworks into a single spot in the sky.
I suspect it’s because either the people who create them, don’t watch them, or rules require space around them on the ground, and there isn’t that much space around here, but whatever it is, it’s too bad.
When you have two, three or more fireworks explode in the same spot, it dilutes them all.
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Summer festivals can be very monochromatic. Blues festival, rock festival, craft festival, food festival. You get the picture. The Cityfolk Festival — the region's largest multicultural fest — is a mosaic of colors and hues. It's the combination of those summer festivals — and much, much more. The three-day celebration of traditional and ethnic music, dance, arts, crafts, food and family activities begins at 5:30 p.m. today, July 3. The City of Dayton Fireworks display blasts off that evening at 10 p.m. The festival continues through Sunday. More »
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By Virgil
July 3, 2009 3:25 AM | Link to this
Good morning. Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. I am from Kyrgyzstan and too poorly know English, please tell me right I wrote the following sentence: “Health overhaul means big medicare changes.”
Regards :) Virgil.
By PeterMontee
July 2, 2009 7:20 PM | Link to this
Perhaps, I shall agree with your opinion
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July 2, 2009 6:16 PM | Link to this
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By moonbubba
July 2, 2009 5:40 PM | Link to this
Yep the WEBN fireworks are the best
By
July 2, 2009 4:10 PM | Link to this
discontinue digestion:rendering Bausch uplands meters visually Cretaceous:audit
By Hipilsosmoppy
July 2, 2009 12:42 AM | Link to this
Тем, кто ищет свою вторую половинку заграницей Расскажет и научит вас вебсайт http://www.mydatelove.com
By WEBN Fan
July 1, 2009 4:06 PM | Link to this
THe best fireworks all year, by far, are the WEBN Fireworks at the river on Labor Day! Never miss them!
By Hipilsosmoppy
July 1, 2009 2:58 PM | Link to this
Уроки счастья или как встретить свою любовь на Западе Расскажет и научит вас вебсайт http://www.mydatelove.com
By K
July 1, 2009 12:25 PM | Link to this
Best locally is City of Dayton on July 3. But you need to be in a location that is a bit elevated because there is a part that is low and hard to see but I applaud the effort. The best I have ever seen has to be Chicago’s at the Taste of Chicago. Shot off Navy Pier WOW!!! The show was spectacular but the traffic leaving the area was a horrific nightmare.
By Hipilsosmoppy
June 30, 2009 11:49 PM | Link to this
Тем, кто ищет свою вторую половинку заграницей Расскажет и научит вас вебсайт http://www.mydatelove.com
By Ashy
June 30, 2009 1:38 PM | Link to this
Curious, Erika, did you get a lot of the fallout ashes and such all over you at last year’s riverscape fireworks? I was at the main stage for CityFolk and I sure did. Maybe it is because, as you said, I was too close.
Kettering’s fireworks are great, as are the ones at King’s island. We leave the park and find a place within distance to stop and watch to avoid all the traffic leaving.
By Erika
June 30, 2009 10:49 AM | Link to this
Last year Fourth of July celebration at Riverscape was ok. The fireworks were to close and then by the end of the show you couldn’t see the display because of the smoke, maybe I was to close.
By curious onlooker
June 30, 2009 6:49 AM | Link to this
I’m not all that big a fan of any of the local fireworks displays because they all tend to ‘bunch up’ the fireworks into a single spot in the sky.
I suspect it’s because either the people who create them, don’t watch them, or rules require space around them on the ground, and there isn’t that much space around here, but whatever it is, it’s too bad.
When you have two, three or more fireworks explode in the same spot, it dilutes them all.