HomeMy WebLinkAboutJuly 4 Parade, Fireworks
Contact: Jennifer Bennerotte, Communications & Marketing Director
Phone 952-833-9520 • Fax 952-826-0389 • Web www.CityofEdina.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Edina to celebrate Independence Day with parade,
fireworks
Edina, Minn., June 30, 2011 – Edina will celebrate Independence Day with a parade and fireworks
July 4.
Themed “America the Beautiful,” the parade will step off at 10 a.m. behind City Hall at the
intersection of Willson Road and Eden Avenue and proceed one mile east on West 50th Street to
the U.S. Bank parking lot at Halifax Avenue. Grand marshals will be the Edina-Morningside High
School Class of 1951, the first class to graduate from an Edina high school. In addition to the Class
of 1951, dozens of veterans will be honored in the parade. Presenting sponsors are Lunds and
Byerly’s.
The parade is put on by the Edina Community Foundation and organized by its volunteer Parade
Committee. Dick Crockett, the Edina Community Foundation’s Executive Director, praised the
Parade Committee’s work in creating the parade “as an event to bring people together and make a
stronger community.”
Rosland Park, 4300 W. 66th St., will be the site of the community’s fireworks display, presented by
Fairview Southdale Hospital. The fireworks will follow an 8:45 p.m. concert of the First John Philip
Sousa Memorial Band.
For more information about the parade, visit www.edinaparade.org.
-30-