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Screenshot from the city's website. |
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Banners touting Faraone's festival can be seen around town. |
Plainfield's Independence Day celebrations get under way today with the three-day Independence Festival organized by Edison Garcia of Faraone's night club, starting at noon.
The festival is in Lots 8 and 8A behind the Front Street stores and features a carnival with rides for all ages, loads of delicious food and fruit drinks and vendors hawking everything from toys to cowboy boots. In addition, there is a beer tent sponsored by Heinekens near the bandstand erected behind the night club. The festival runs today through Sunday, Noon to 11:00 PM and is a real crowd-pleaser.
On Saturday, Plainfield's traditional but much-diminished July 4th Parade steps off from Johnston Avenue and East Front Street at 10:00 AM, proceeding down Front Street to pass the reviewing stands before dispersing on Madison Avenue.
This will be Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs' final July 4 Parade; one can only hope that it will improve beginning next year, as it has become a shadow of what it once was.
Grand Marshals for this year's parade are Superintendent of Schools Anna Belin Pyles and William Gary.
The parade will be followed by a concert at 4:30 (or 5:00, both times being put forward by the City) at Cedar Brook Park.
Fireworks will cap the city's Independence Day celebrations at 9:00 PM, also at Cedar Brook Park.
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3 comments:
Dan, the Heineken sponsorship is why Mr. Garcia should not have received a waiver of ANY fees. He will be making a lot of money from this THREE-DAY event--the permit fees the city charges are but a drop in the bucket. I will never vote to waive fees for commercial, profit-making ventures such as this.
Rebecca
When I moved to new Jersey from Arizona, 1962, I was a little girl.The thing I remember so well was the July 4th parade. It was about 3 hours long. Through the years towns have seperated from each other. I was always thrilled when the parade was comming. Now we are seperated and nothing is the same. Miss the good old days. Bobbie
@bobbie sloan: you must a white person who is missing white presence. if that is what you are looking for go to a parade in someplace like manville. even scotch plains and fanwood can no longer provide the homogenization that you seek.
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