Island photographer Jay Trinidad spent the Fourth of July snapping photos of both the parade and the crowd that gathered to watch it.
Check out his gallery here.
Also, if you enjoyed the evening’s fireworks show, go and thank Robert Nitz. He’s had quite the rough time making sure the show happened this year. Read more about that here.
The city has crafted a draft ordinance that would ban all fireworks – except for pro-grade, permitted displays – on the island in time for the 2010 Fourth of July.
There’s a public hearing on the proposal this Thursday at City Hall.
While I was gathering information for a story on the proposed ban, which you can read here, Bainbridge Fire Marshall Jared Moravec mentioned a YouTube video that shows Bainbridge teens detonating homemade explosives Moravec said were likely built with legal fireworks and are the type used to blow apart a number of port-o-potties last summer.
In the video, the teens blow up buckets, toss firework grenades, launch homemade mortars and fire a hand-held 10-barrel roman candle. You can see the video below. There’s some swearing, so hide the kids.
