NEW YEAR’S FIREWORKS CANCELLED

For many years the City of Kodiak has planned semi-annual fireworks, one on New Year’s Eve, and another on Independence Day. Seldom in the 7+ years that The Kodiak Perspective has resided in Kodiak, have both displays gone off without a hitch. Often the shows are cancelled due to weather, rescheduled, cancelled again, rescheduled for a later holiday, cancelled yet again, until the public forgets that there was supposed to be a show.

In a preemptive strike, the folks at the City of Kodiak have pre-cancelled the firework show to ring in the New Year 2008. Mayor Caroline Floyd confirmed that there will not be a show next week, weather permitting or not.

“Boo Hoo” to the City for denying us this pleasure during the long nights that we endure during the winter months. It is a bright spot that we look forward to, get disappointed, look forward to again, and get disappointed again, and spoils the betting pools on when the show will finally happen. The book makers of Kodiak are in for a lean year.