The Culver City Exchange Club’s 50th Fourth of July fireworks show will be held at West Los Angeles College on Monday evening.
Gates open at 4. Fireworks begin at dusk.
The West L.A. campus is near the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Overland Avenue.
Suggested donation is $5 for all persons age 6 and older.
Parking is $10 and limited.
To encourage carpooling, the maximum admission donation for four or more guests in a single vehicle is $20 plus the parking fee. That means a car with six passengers will pay only $30, not $40. Commercial vans, buses and mini-buses are excluded from the carpool deal.
Visitors may travel by Culver CityBus. The busses will be running on their holiday schedule. See www.CulverCity.org.
The fireworks viewing spot will move to the vast college baseball and practice field. Carnival games, gourmet food trucks and a raffle tent will be in the adjacent parking lot.
“Our 50th year,” said Xavier Nuques, the Exchange Club’s event co-chair.
“People who first came as kids will be arriving with their kids or even their grandkids. We are excited.”
Mr. Nuques said the club has hired a special pyrotechnics provider for Monday’s spectacular, Garden State Fireworks.]
One of the country’s oldest family-owned fireworks companies. Garden State has won several international fireworks competitions.
“For 125 years,” said Mr. Nuques, “these guys have been entertaining crowds from the White House and the Capitol Mall in Washington to the Super Bowl and New York Harbor.”
Adding to the festive atmosphere will be a special Kids Zone with carnival games and a mega-raffle where the grand prizes include a big screen television, an aerial tour of Los Angeles and a weeklong luxury stay in Las Vegas.
As in past years, visitors may sample the fare of a dozen gourmet food trucks. The public may bring picnic baskets, blankets and low chairs.
However, tents and umbrellas along with pets, alcoholic beverages and smoking all are prohibited. Limited seating and handicapped parking are available.
To celebrate the contributions of our nation’s veterans, the live entertainment will feature the New Directions for Vets Choir, a finalist on “America’s Got Talent.” Comprised of formerly homeless and addicted veterans, the choir will sing the National Anthem as an all veterans color guard raises the nation’s flag.
Starting at 6 o’clock, Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps will entertain the crowd with their original music.
Proceeds from the fireworks event will be used to help to combat child abuse and to support local youth programs including college scholarships for deserving students.
Some of the other programs supported by the event are the YMCA, the Culver Youth Health Center and Backpacks for Kids, a program that provides supplemental weekend food and nutrition to children from needy families.
For more information, see CulverCityFireworksShow.com.
Mr. Cohn, freshly elected president of the Exchange Club, may be contacted at john@thejungle.biz
Anyone know if we can enter through the North gate, at Jefferson?