Clinton’s Fourth of July includes fireworks, family activities, food vendors, music

Posted at 6:11 pm June 25, 2016
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Clinton’s annual Fourth of July event will include fireworks, family activities, food vendors, and music.

The event starts at 5 p.m. Monday, July 4, and it ends at 10 p.m., when fireworks start, a press release said. The activities are at Lakefront Park.

You can bring the whole family and enjoy these activities, a press release said:

Backyard Bouncers will have a bounce house, bungee run, home run baseball game, Spaceball 2000 human gyro, 68-foot army boot camp obstacle course, 22-foot two-lane tsunami water slide with slip-and-slide, race car combo with water slide, 75-foot Zorb Ball, and pirate bounce house. They are available for the public and free, the press release said. (Important notice: You must have a wrist band to ride.)

There is also laser tag for those kids up for the challenge, and it’s also free, the press release said. So are video games. These activities are sponsored by Faith Promise Church—Anderson Campus, the press release said.

There will be several food vendors set up in the lower Lakefront parking lot, and the parking lot by the concession area, including Bojangles’, Bruster’s Ice Cream, Pizza Express, Riverview Grille, Coldwater Farms, Hibachi Truck, and The Nut Hut.

There will also be live music. The Will Shepard Band is scheduled from 7-9:45 p.m. on the men’s field. It’s sponsored by Ray Varner Ford, the release said.

Also, the Clinton Chapter of the Antique Automobile Club of America will have some antique cars for show, the release said.

The event is sponsored by: ORNL Federal Credit Union, Y-12 Federal Credit Union (Clinton Express and Clinton I-75 branches), Holley Gamble Funeral Home, Anderson County Tourism, Fox and Farley, Bojangles’, Fox Toyota Scion, Allstate—The Erb Agency, Bruster’s Ice Cream, Anderson Farmers CO-OP, Rusty Wallace Chevrolet, Clinton City Schools, Parker Transport, Farm Bureau—Clinton, Clinton Drug Store, Clinton Utilities Board, Herbie Clark State Farm, Regions Bank, Ray Varner Ford, Faith Promise Church—Anderson Campus, Backyard Bouncers, WYSH, and the City of Clinton.