To start, happy 4th of July! Next, First Fridays has moved to July 11, 2008. Last, get your red panites on and go have an AMAZING three day weekend.

• Check out Haidee Cline’s Guide to 4th of July Festivities over at STYLE

• Cville has festivities lined up locally CTS Fireworks on 4th of July. They are also offering a FREE shuttle.
• Hot Air Balloon Festival in Lexington July 3-5.
• America’s Birthday Celebration in Staunton July 4th (music, food, fireworks, etc.).
• Harrisonburg is having a shin dig downtown on the 4th of July.
• The Frontier Culture Museum is having a traditional 19th Century Celebration on the 4th from 11 to 4:00 p.m.
• The Ash Lawn Opera is putting on Broadway Bound on the 4th.
• James Monroe’s Ash Law-Highland is having an Opera Festival July 4th - Aug. 10th
  
• Thomas Jefferson’s Popular Forest has a musical performance and Declaration reading on July 4th 1:00-2:30 p.m.
• CELEBRATION AT MCINTIRE PARK July 4th at 4pm. Food and drinks available. Amusement rides, and activities from 5 to 9pm. Live music. Fireworks begin after dark, approximately 9:30pm. McIntire Park. 4 to 10pm. All ages welcome.
• CROZET SUMMERFEST 2008 - Crozet Volunteer Fire Department. Rides, games, arts & 8 different live musical acts. Parade at 3pm, a firefighter challenge, and fireworks - 10am to 11pm July 5th.
• Celebrate Orange: Picnic in the Park at Booster Park 4:30-10:30 p.m. on July 5th - call for details 540-672-3322.

Let us know what else is on the agenda!

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Bush will speak at the 46th Annual Independence Day Celebration at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello.

There will be a naturalization ceremony. This is the Oath:

I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.

[via Monticello]

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This is serious! Meth heads are emptying the propane from tanks and refilling them with anhydrous ammonia. DO NOT buy tanks with blue nozzles. You will die.

See web page.

I hate meth heads.

Tanks from Flickr.

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