The City of Gulf Shores will celebrate the Fourth of July with a display of fireworks, beginning at 9 tonight. Thundering blossoms, crackling chrysanthemums, and twinkling stars full of gold and glitter are a few of the specialty shell fireworks that will be included in the show.
Sunny 105.7 radio will play music to coincide with the show. In the case of delay or cancellation, Sunny 105.7 will broadcast that information immediately.
The fireworks may be seen from any Gulf Shores-area beach. The display will be launched from a barge in the Gulf of Mexico, south of the point where Gulf Shores Parkway (Alabama 59) meets the Gulf. Authorized fireworks watercraft will be located on site at approximately 3 p.m. As a safety measure, no boats or personal watercraft will be permitted in the surrounding area.
The Mobile Symphony Orchestra prepares for their 2006 Independence Day symphony, a pops concert at The Wharf.
More accustomed to the 2000 seat Saenger Theatre, or to the Mobile Civic Center, the orchestra is looking forward to playing before an audience expected to be fully five times larger.
If all goes according to plan they hope to make this the first in an annual series of Fourth of July celebrations.
Orange Beach Overture
Cue the fireworks.
On Tuesday the bus and caravans from Mobile and Pensacola will hit the road for Orange Beach, where the Mobile Symphony Orchestra will perform an Independence Day pops concert in The Wharf's spanking-new amphitheater.
Like the migrating birds themselves the Alabama Coastal BirdFest will return this year. Last year's event was questionable due to the weather conditions along the Gulf Coast, but it went on as planned and to great success.
This year's event is sure to be as successful as last year's, and hopefully both weather and birds will cooperate to the fullest.
Dates set for Alabama Coastal BirdFest
FAIRHOPE (AP) — The Alabama Coastal BirdFest, set for Oct. 19-22, includes some new activities in the Mobile Bay area.
The third annual BirdFest includes nearly 20 tours to prime birding spots on the 240-mile long coastal birding trail.
"This year we're adding a brand new trip and repeating some old favorites," said John Borom, president of Mobile Bay Audubon Society, which helps sponsor the event.
Borom said three new tours to Dauphin Island have been added, including a Mobile Bay excursion on the Dauphin Island Sea Lab research vessel, the A.E. Verrill, a 65-foot ocean-going craft. Advance registration is required for the tours and evening events.
More information about the Alabama Coastal BirdFest
Come to Fort Morgan for an informative evening touring historic Fort Morgan. See and learn about life in the Civil War as uniformed interpreters take you on a guided tour of Fort Morgan and tell the sory of Fort Morgan's Civil War service.
Mobile Bay's annual Independence Day celebration and fireworks presentation will be held at the USS ALABAMA Battleship Park on Tuesday, July 4th.
Each year the Press-Register and the City of Mobile celebrate the birth of our nation with a grand fireworks display. The 2006 event will be a celebration of community featuring new events, entertainment and a thrilling 30-minute fireworks presentation.
Festivities will begin at 6pm featuring a presentation by Operation Home Front, a program of Volunteers of America. Murphy High School Band will begin at 7:00pm with a salute to music and will also accompany the fireworks presentations beginning at 9pm.
Parrot Heads help charity
Members of the Towns Around Biloxi Parrot Head Club, working with Parrot Heads from clubs in Alabama, helped raise more than $14,000 for charity in March.
In April a solo fundraising Poker Run event raised an additional $875 for the South Mississippi Division of the Alzheimer's Foundation of the South.
Two checks from these fundraisers were presented recently by David Barnes, club president, to Rosemary Hudgins, executive director of the South Mississippi Division of the Alzheimer's Foundation of the South.
The first event, "Stars Fell On Alabama," was held March 9-12 at the Island House Hotel and Live Bait in Orange Beach, Ala., and LuLu's Homeport Marina in Gulf Shores, Ala. This annual weekend event, in its seventh year, featured a silent auction, raffles and sponsorships recognized through an event T-shirt. It drew Parrot Heads from all over the country and benefited not only the Alzheimer's Foundation of the South, South Mississippi Chapter, but also the Salvation Army in Mobile and Baldwin counties of Alabama; the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo in Gulf Shores, and the Family Sunshine Center in Montgomery. Read more