2017 Festival of America

Festival of America

• Laser Show • Fireworks • Beer Garden • Food, Arts and Crafts Vendors • Live Entertainment A supplement to The Star • June 28, 2017

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Musical mix set for two nights T

hose attending this year’s Festival of America are in for a musical treat.

The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce has lined up two afternoon and early evenings of interesting music for the people attending this year’s festival.

Music begins this Friday, June 30, at 5 p.m. and will kick off on Saturday at 4:45 p.m.

Friday’s musical lineup begins with tenor Joseph Saachi and mezzo-soprano Marija Bonsnar, with Michael Plagerman on the keyboard, at the 5-6:30 p.m. time slot.

Saachi said they’ll perform an eclectic mix of music, from pop songs to opera.

Booking of these classically trained musicians is a happy accident. Saachi is the son of local residents Tamra and Ron Saachi, and the three are coming to the area to perform at a wedding.

With a masters in vocal performance from the Manhattan School of Music, Saachi works as a vocalist in New York City.

Plagerman has a masters in sacred music from Notre Dame and will head to a new job at Cornell University this fall, along with Bonsnar, his wife.

3D Band will perform on Saturday from 4:45 to 6:45 p.m.

are the featured attractions at the Rounding out the evening with his brand of country.

The musical programs, along park below the Visitor Center. will be the Spokane River Band from 7:45 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. The with the crafts and food booths, country band has played this gig before to an enthusiastic crowd.

On Saturday, the 3D Band, offering “live music of any genre,” kicks off the musical program from 4:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.

Jesse Quandt picks it up in the final time slot of 7:45 to 9:45 Friday & Saturday

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Stoney River Saturday, July 1 ~ 8 p.m. - Midnight

Karaoke Jesse Quandt will perform the final music from 7:45 to 9:45 p.m.

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Chamber offers beer tent A hospitality beer tent will

be located again this year in the Melody Restaurant parking lot in Coulee Dam. The tent, where you can have a great view of Grand Coulee Dam, will be open Friday 5-10 p.m., and Saturday night from 5-11 p.m.

Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Peggy Nevsimal said that three kinds of beer will be served.

There won’t be food service in the tent this year. However, the Melody Restaurant will be open until 10 p.m. both nights to provide for those dining out.

Customers at the beer tent will be served by volunteers for the chamber of commerce.

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Fireworks Saturday will be a big show

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he big fireworks show off Grand Coulee Dam will light up the sky this Saturday night immediately after the Laser Light Show, which starts at 10 p.m.

The Festival of America takes a new twist this year, being held this Friday and Saturday, June 30 and July 1, following a difficult decision by board members of the chamber of commerce, which organizes the show.

The chamber board labored a long time in setting the date for the fireworks, but reasoned the community will get a better turnout on Saturday.

The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce has scheduled the fireworks show on July 1, since the actual Fourth of July occurs on Tuesday, a mid-week time when it will be difficult for most people to attend in The

the whole festival are intended to “put heads the middle of their work week.

“We called around [to other festival in beds” and showcase the area, the chamber organizers] and about board finally decided, during a two-day planning session, it ever yone is holding their fireworks show made more sense to stage the big night when people from out of on Saturday night,” the chamber ’s executive town could attend. director, Peggy Nevsimal, The fireworks, for the second year in a row, are being handled stated.

by Rocketman Pyro, out of The fireworks show, costing about $10,000, Spokane, in what will be a repeat of the 35-minute show of a year is f inanced through taxes on motels and ago. campgrounds intended The chamber has advertised the fireworks date, July 1, to make for the promotion of tourism, plus corporate it easier for people to attend. sponsorships.

Since the fireworks and

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Festival of America

At Grand Coulee Dam Friday & Saturday June 30 - July 1 • • • • •

Laser Show 10 pm nightly Fireworks Saturday, July 1 Beer Garden at The Melody Food, Arts and Crafts, Vendors Live Entertainment

Friday, June 30th

Live Music

5-6:30 pm Joseph Saachi, Tenor Marija Bonsnar, Mezzo-soprano Michael Plagerman, Keyboards 7:45-9:45 pm Spokane River Band

Saturday, July 1st 4:45-6:45 pm 3D Band 7:45-9:45 pm Jesse Quandt

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Your first and best place to start is at the Visitor Center.

There you can meet one of the visitor officials, who will provide a lot of information about the Grand Coulee Dam and direct you to the tour starting point.

Taking the tour, you will get a feeling of just how big this dam is. You will be able to stand on top of the dam and look down over the spillway. You will again be surprised about how large Grand Coulee Dam is.

Oh, and bring your camera.

There will be several photo ops along the tour.

Before you leave the Visitor Center, take advantage of the various displays, and by all means allow plenty of time for the various short movies shown upstairs. They are indeed worth the time and will help you see Grand Coulee Dam in its historical setting.

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Visitors are first screened through a metal detector and you cannot take bags of any kind on the tour. This includes camera bags, diaper bags and purses.

Lock these in your trunk as you arrive at the tour kick-off point.

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You may have a short wait, but the tour is worth it.

A federally armed guard accompanies all tours and has ever since the 9/11 attack.

From April 1 to June 30, the tours start at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., and 5 p.m.

From July 1 to September 4, the tours start on the hour beginning at 10 a.m. and lasting until the 5 p.m. tour.

From Sept. 5 through Oct. 31, the tour schedule will change.

Call the visitor center at 509633-9265 for more information.

Tiny tour buses at the top of the dam give perspective of its size.

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IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. -- Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.

We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections

and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. -- And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

-- John Hancock New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

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Rules for displaying the flag

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h e f l ag s h o u l d b e displayed from sunrise to sunset. If the flag is displayed at night it should be illuminated.

Never allow the flag to touch the ground or the floor. When displayed on a wall or window, the blue field should be in the upper left corner.

The flag should be raised quickly and lowered ceremoniously.

There are exceptions to the sunrise/sunset r u l e, t h o ug h.

The U.S. flag is flown 24 hours a day by either presidential proclamation or law at select locations, including : Fort McHenry National Monument

and Historic Shrine, Baltimore, Maryland; Flag House Square, Baltimore, Maryland; United States Marine Corps Memorial (Iwo Jima), Arlington, Virginia; On the Green of the Town of Lexington, Massachusetts; The W h i te Ho u s e, Washington, D.C.; Un i t e d S t a t e s Customs Ports of Entr y Grounds of the National Memorial Arch in Valley Forge State Park, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

In 1909, Robert Peary placed a flag at the North Pole.

His wife had sewn that flag. He also left pieces of another flag along the way. It is the only time a person has been honored for cutting the flag.

That’s not the only interesting the moon. They were planted by location of the American flag. crews from Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, There are six American flags on 16 and 17.

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