No Fireworks This Year at Cooper River Park
Pennsauken won't hold a fireworks display this year, as the township normally does in conjunction with the Fourth of July concert at Cooper River Park.
Fireworks won't light up the night sky above Pennsauken this Fourth of July.
The township normally holds a fireworks display each year in conjunction with the "Let Freedom Rock Fest" at Cooper River Park.
But, this year the fireworks won't go off because of budget constraints, Pennsauken Administrator Ed Grochowski said in an email.
In April Camden County officials announced that the Fourth of July rock concert at the park would not be held this year because money was tight.
That same month, the county laid off roughly 260 of its workers.
For the past decade, the county freeholder board held the Independence Day concert at Cooper River Park in conjunction with Philadelphia radio station WMGK 102.9-FM.
WMGK decided to move the rock concert, which will feature Yes and Styx, to the Susquehanna Bank Center on the Camden waterfront.
Unlike the Cooper River Park concert, it will not be free.
Go here for a list of area fireworks displays to be held over the holiday weekend.
Ed Fahrenholz
7:11 pm on Monday, July 4, 2011
It really stinks that you are not having fireworks at Cooper River Park this year. How unfortunate that nobody announced this fact earlier. FYI , web sites still list the fireworks being held. How very cheap and unpatriotic of you. I am sure if you had made a PUBLIC announcement earlier you could have gotten plenty of donations to put on quite a show. Typical N.J. scenario, put out the word at the last minute in some obscure media, and cry the blues about the budget. Want to save eanough money for public events on our Nations birthday? Eliminate fools like like Ed Grochowski !!
Very dtsenchanted Camden Co. Voter
Wayne
9:55 pm on Monday, July 4, 2011
Yeah, perhaps if Republicans were in charge in Camden County you could have fireworks like the Republican council in Moorestown provided us this year! Oh, wait...
Kitten
10:08 pm on Monday, July 4, 2011
FYI - fireworks in Moorestown only happened twice in it's history for what is understood.
1963- when the mall opened
2006- moorestown the "Best Place to Live" in America.
All for what is understood funding by private donations.
Hey "Wayne" what gives?
Jen
7:22 am on Tuesday, July 5, 2011
It was announced back in April that the fireworks were not going to take place at Cooper River this year, due to a sponsor backing out of the celebration. This is why they had to move the concert to the S-Center in Camden and charge for admission. The announcement back in April gave ample time to find another place to go for fireworks on the 4th.
Ginger Hayes
7:57 am on Tuesday, July 5, 2011
and ALL political parties were invited of course....
Wayne
8:18 pm on Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Thanks, Jen and Ginger! I should point out that Virtua Health System provided a healthy sum to our effort to have a July 4th parade in Moorestown this year! The Moorestown parade was SO much fun, even though there were no fireworks to top off the day!