The Festival of America will feature live entertainment and fireworks off the top of Grand Coulee Dam on July 4th.
The entertainment, food and special craft vendors, and viewing of the Laser Light Show and fireworks are great from the park below the Visitor Center at the dam.
Here is our guide to the event:
Music, food and fireworks.
Sounds like Festival of America time in the coulee, when patriots can celebrate America Friday and Saturday at the park below the Visitor Center, with a guide to the action inside this issue.
The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce, the organizer of the event, has put together live music, kids activities, a big show in the park, fireworks and more to entertain local residents as well as the thousands of visitors who crowd the park and surrounding areas each year.
Listen to the music of MacDaddy, Tuxedo Junction and the Olson Bros. bands.
Fifty vendors will provide food and product in the park.
An “Inflatable Village,” a romp particularly for the kids, will help to make the time clearly a family time.
New this year is the chamber’s Beer Garden, located on town shop property facing Columbia Avenue, where adults can go for a beverage break and a retreat from the crowd.
All in all, a great experience filled with possibilities for everyone.
And don’t forget the Laser Light Show, kicking off just before the fireworks over Grand Coulee Dam.
All the fun is explained in the special Festival of America section with this week’s Star newspaper.
And by the way, when you see a chamber of commerce member, say “thanks” for the creativity and hard work it takes to put on the festival.
Here’s our online edition of our printed special section:
Kids, mark Saturday, June 20, on your calendars.
That’s the day the 11th Annual Kids Fest occurs in the coulee area.
Start by picking up your passport and map from a variety of places — Saturday Market at North Dam Park, Coulee Hardware or the Grand Coulee Dam Visitor Center. It’s your ticket to a day of fun and adventure — and potential prizes.
Bring your passport with six or more stamps on it to the Grand Theatre on Grand Coulee’s Main Street for a performance by juggler-comedian-yoyo man Curtis Carlyle ( a 60-minute performance) with prizes awarded afterward.
During the day, kids can take advantage of many fun things to do, all organized and presented by the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce.
Ride a pedal boat
Catch a fish from a large fish tank.
Sit inside a real MedStar helicopter.
Tour the inside of a fire truck.
Romp in a bubble station.
Play disc golf.
Create beautiful chalk artwork.
Build your own dam.
Vote for your favorite Coulee Cruizers car.
Play a round of miniature golf.
Get free ice cream and cookie.
And at the end of the day make it to the thrilling Curtis Carlyle performance at 3 p.m. Winners must be present and ages 12 and under to win.
See you Saturday, June 20, for the 11th annual Koulee Kids Fest.
Kids, there’s a special day for you this Saturday, June 15.
It’s the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce’s Koulee Kids Fest.
Details and a map are available to help you plan your day, inside this week’s Star newspaper.
A host of prizes will be awarded to some lucky kids.
The grand prize, being awarded by the chamber, is an iPod Touch. Other prizes include a remote controlled Spy Tank, an inflatable boat set, three AquaZookas, four tickets to Ephrata Raceway Park, gift certificates, free ice cream cones, a digital video camera, t-shirts, a sweatshirt and a gift card. Details on the firms providing the prizes can be found inside today’s newspaper.
Here’s all you have to do!
Visit the sites outlined in today’s Star, have someone sign off on your visit, and deposit your entry.
Prizes will be awarded at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Faith Community Church in Electric City and kids can enjoy a feature-length movie while there.
Good hunting and good luck! See page 8 in The Star.
You can also read on, but the map may be easier to follow on paper, which also offers the entry form.
Geode Break at Funzee’s (bring your own sock)
Pedal Boats at Coulee Playland
Mini Golf at Sunbanks Lake Resort
Geo cache at the Visitor Arrival Center
BB- North Dam Park – Lions Club
Coulee Cruizers Car Show North Dam Park,
kids vote for their favorite car
Sidewalk Chalk Art – in Electric City
(by the post office, city hall in front of Tropical Pig & ECT)
Fire truck at North Dam Park
Disk Golf demonstration at the new
Disc Golf course in North Dam Park
Delight Ice Cream truck, free ice cream
for all kids participating in the event.
Sponsored by Coulee Dam Federal Credit Union
To fish our upcoming derby?
You’re probably not a real good angler, so just move on. Nothing to see here.
Unless you actually are tough enough for the local chamber of commerce sponsored triple challenge coming up in April.
You read that right: TRIPLE challenge. Meaning you have to catch bass, walleye and rainbow, all in one event, in the first event of the year in eastern Washington.
