4th of July Celebration
4th of July Festival Downtown Homewood
Thursday, July 4th 2013
5:30pm – 9:00pm
The City of Homewood and the Homewood Parks and Recreation Board will celebrate the 4th of July in Downtown Homewood. The streets in Downtown Homewood will be closed for vehicles to make way for pedestrian traffic. Our event opens to the general public at 5:30pm. There will be a combination of inflatables/rides placed in the streets that will appeal to children of all ages. A DJ will provide music and interactive activities for the patrons at the event. Downtown Homewood is by far one of the best locations in the entire metro area to view the “Thunder on the Mountain” fireworks show from Vulcan Park ( http://www.visitvulcan.com/eventInfo/thunderonthemountain.htm ). All of our activities will end at the beginning of the fireworks display.
For more information about July 4th Celebration contact Rusty Holley at: rusty.holley@homewoodal.org
Proceeds from the event will benefit the H.E.A.T. program at the Homewood Parks and Recreation and other community organizations. The H.E.A.T. program is for 6th – 8th graders in Homewood and provides recreational opportunities for the participants in different areas of interest.
For more information about H.E.A.T. program contact Jakob Stephens at:
jakob.stephens@homewoodal.org ______________________________________________________________________________
Why Water?
Water – It covers 70% of the Earths surface, yet less than 1% of the worlds water is drinkable. The result is that, in a world of over 6 billion people, almost 1 billion lack access to clean, safe drinking water. Even more tragically, this means that one child dies from contaminated water every 15 seconds – The time you’ve spent reading this paragraph.
“Lemonade for Living Water“
“Lemonade for Living Water” is seeking to raise funds to bring clean and living water to the poor across the world. Jay Leonard, learned about the Neverthirst organization through their website. He was so touched by the fact that children his own age are living without clean water, he wanted to help. After some thought, the idea of selling hot cocoa to provide clean water was born! Jay reached his first goal of $4,000 and provided an entire village in Sudan with clean water, and Jay has decided to keep going! Jay has actually been very busy since last summer and raised enough to build a well in India, as well as one in the Central African Republic! He is now working on the 4th well which will most likely be built in India.
