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Are you sure the City of Wildwood is footing the entire bill for the fireworks? Many cities have sponsors that pay for the advertising. In Cincinnati, along the Ohio riverbank, the radio station WEBN and Toyota sponsor the fireworks. The city coveres traffic control and crowd cleanup.
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Not getting the responses you hoped for, are you?
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So great that Wildwood is doing this for New Year's. That is what small-town America is all about.
Check out the link to see how Hawaii brings in the New Year. The best part is that all fireworks are illegal in the state https://youtu.be/x34YIlD9gFQ |
A FIREWORK WORKS GROUCH lives amongst us! Let's eliminate ALL the flowers, trees and while we are at it the grass!! These growing things require tax money to maintain! While we are at it close the art museums, stop all concerts, parades and CLOSE anything that makes us civil as humans. 'Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain and most fools do' (Ben franklin)
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What about all of the frightened pets?
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People have complained for over 20 years that no towns near the Villages have fireworks on the 4th, now you are complaining that Wildwood is having a fireworks show. Can't win for losing. I for one am thrilled that they are doing this for their citizens. Very patriotic. I'll be there watching and cheering.
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I like fireworks, although I confess the 4th was really most applicable for my upbringing. Have you seen Wildwood? The money should be spent on the people, not placed up in smoke. I get though how some want fireworks more than once a year. I guess I care more about those less fortunate at a fault. Love the Villages and never plan on moving. I hope you do to! |
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However, the people that put on their own private shows with professional grade fireworks are random, so there are loud booms going off at various times of the evening and night on the holiday as well as the days before and after. I have no problem dealing with my dogs during the time of the advertised show. It's the random detonations by these private folks that really screw things up for us. |
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Please share what your platform will be when you run for council. |
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It's also much more than just shooting off fireworks, it's an event: "In addition to a professional fireworks display, the New Year’s party will feature music by Groove Slayers, a high-energy band from Orlando featuring horns, multiple vocalists and harmonies, and a repertoire ranging from soul to pop. The event also will include a variety of food trucks, vendors, and family-friendly games. For those of legal age with proper identification, adult beverages will be available for purchase." I'm sure between what the vendors, and food trucks are paying to be there and the profits on the adult beverages that Wildwood will make out just fine in covering most of the costs. |
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Maybe the cost of the fireworks were subsidized by local businesses?
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My part of the Villages is in Wildwood and I would be very unlikely to vote for a Villages candidate over a non-Villages one. I don't think Wildwood needs retiree's whose main agenda is to not spend money telling them how to run things. They would absolutely NOT be a shoe in for Villages candidates to run the city. |
I used to enjoy fireworks displays, until one year a friend invited me to her friend's neighborhood, and they were shooting a huge multi-hundred-dollar kit in the middle of the residential street. The smoke, the sound of M-80's, the sparks flying into the trees - it was just all WAY too much for me and I ran away, horrified. I've hated them ever since.
My next door neighbor used to set them off in his back yard from June 1 til the end of July, almost every night. Sometimes the rockets would explode right above my maple tree and the sparks falling onto the branches had me panicking. They thought it was rather entertaining that they were creating explosions in a wooded neighborhood. I thought it was horrible, insensitive, nasty, and uncivilized. It was also illegal in my state, but half the cops in the town were shooting their own kits off in their own yards so there was really no one to report it to. If that maple tree didn't merely have sparks on the branches, but any of those sparks had turned into an actual fire, it could've been a catastrophe. The sound still sets me on edge, the closer it is to the house the more nervewracking it is. I am not fond of the sound of guns, or bombs, or explosions. Humbug, sure. I'll own that. I don't apologize for it. |
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still puts on a very nice professional fireworks show for 30,000. |
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Can hear gun fire every morning. Welcome to America. |
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Making noise at midnight (ie fireworks)is said to ward off evil spirits and intentions as you enter a new year. The noise scares off ill will and welcomes in happy celebration. Ancient Romans believed that if they spent the first day of the new year in a happy and pleasant manner, the rest of the year would follow along in the same way. Modern Romans continue this superstition by throwing massive parties with elaborate fireworks displays every New Year's Eve.
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Don’t kid yourself by thinking people don’t care if they are paying for nothing while their neighbors who live in other unincorporated area don’t pay a dime. Over 10 years, without raises in the rate, taxes are 15,000 dollars on a home. Nothing to you. Let’s ask the rest of the villagers who are unincorporated if they would like the same privilege. |
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[that is a great plan to bring the community together. And spend money to help local businesses. QUOTE=Normal;2285640]Come on out and see your Wildwood tax money blown up on New Years!
A $138,000 contract with Zambelli Fireworks to provide a 20-minute display on July 3 this year and a seven-minute display for New Year’s, possibly at midnight. That’s about 5 thousand dollars a minute![/QUOTE] |
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Money raked in is used for things like 50,000 dollar parking spaces next to city hall and fireworks for additional holidays like New Years. I hope this helps? |
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If you don't live South of 44, why post?? |
Pretty Flowers
Those pretty Flowers compliment our surroundings!
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Absolutely, one of the things I like about where we live. Those amenities are well worth it and have a lot more permanency than a quick fireworks show. We live in a beautiful place |
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