fireworks

Alliance Bank donates for fireworks

Dec 13, 2023

Alliance Bank Lake City was an early donor to the Lake City Lions Club Fireworks fund. Alliance Bank staff members are shown in the photo above. The fundraising goal is $15,000. Donations made by check to Lake City Lions, P. O. Box 212, Lake City, MN 55041. Denote “Fireworks” on your check memo.

Acrotech contributes to fireworks fundraiser

Nov 15, 2023

Acrotech, Inc. Lake City was an early donor to the Lake City Lions Club Fireworks fund. Acrotech owner, Andy Oliver, presented a check to Lake City Lions President Bruce Carlstrom. The fundraising goal is $15,000. Donations made by check payable to Lake City Lions and mailed to P.O. Box 212, Lake...

Heffernan donates $500 to fireworks fund

Oct 11, 2023

Tom Heffernan has owned Tom Heffernan Ford in Lake City for over 50 years and believes that 2023 was the first year without fireworks in Lake City for the Fourth of July. Wanting to help revive the fireworks tradition, Tom wrote out a $500 check to the Lake City Lions who are leading an effort to...

Fireworks fund drive is more than half way to goal

Sep 20, 2023

After one month of fundraising, the Lake City Lions Club is more than halfway to its goal of raising $15,000 to provide fireworks in Lake City on July 4, 2024, according to the club. The Lions Club picked up the project after there was no fireworks show this year. Checks received and pledges...

Legion Post 110 donates $500 to fireworks fund

Sep 6, 2023

Lake City American Legion Post 110 was one of the first to respond with $500 to a request for donations by the Lake City Lions Club, which has taken on the task of raising funds for fireworks over Lake Pepin on July 4th 2024. Pictured from left to right are Post 110 members Raymond Niemczyk and...

Lions Club takes over fireworks fundraising, begins campaign

Aug 23, 2023

After a one-year hiatus, fireworks will return to Lake City on July 4 next year. A group of concerned citizens approached the Lake City Lions Club about working with them to raise funds needed for the show. Dan Wood, a Lake City native, who has recently returned to live in Lake City, has joined...

Wading patiently for the fireworks to begin

Jul 13, 2022

Children wade in the shallow water at Ohuta Beach just after sunset on Saturday, July 9. Offshore was a flotilla of sailboats and other watercraft assembled to watch the fireworks show at 10 p.m. that evening. Originally scheduled for July 4, the Independence Day fireworks show was postponed to...

Things bursting in air

Jul 13, 2022

A firework explodes Saturday, July 9, during a postponed celebration of the independence of the United States of America from the British Empire. The Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The Revolutionary War, which had begun in April of the prior...

Fireworks postponed until July 9

Jul 6, 2022

A grim Fourth of July forecast led the Lake City Chamber of Commerce to postpone the annual fireworks show over Lake Pepin until Saturday, July 9. “It’s never an easy call to make, but the forecast is not looking in our favor for tonight’s display,” the Chamber said in a public Facebook post. “...

Independence Day  fireworks display

Jun 30, 2021

The annual Fourth of July fireworks display organized by the Lake City Chamber of Commerce will take place at 10 p.m. over Lake Pepin on Sunday, July 4.