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Local U.S. and Canadian officials join together to drop the 7ft. Red BoomDays Ball from the Peace Bridge to signify the coming of spring.
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SATURDAY CELEBRATION IN BUFFALO
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9:00 AM- 12:00PM |
Up to 1,000 hardworking volunteers will partner with Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER® to clean up the shoreline at 40 sites throughout the Buffalo Niagara region! Cleanup crews will pick up trash such as clothing, drinking bottles, shopping carts, mattresses, and car parts as well as perform community beautification projects. For more information or to sign up to volunteer, visit www.bnriverkeeper.org or call (716) 852-7483.
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1:00 PM- 4:00PM |
Kite-Flying at Tifft Nature Preserve, 1200 Fuhrmann Boulevard, Buffalo, NY 14203. The only day of the year you can fly a kite at Tifft! Make a kite with our help or bring one of your own.
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SATURDAY NIGHT CELEBRATION @ DUGS DIVE
1111 Fuhrman Blvd. - Buffalo, NY 14203 (NFTA Small Boat Harbor)
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5:30 PM- 10:00 PM |
Food, fun, and fireworks at Dug's Dive! Be sure to try some of Flying Bison's Ice Boom Bock with sales benefiting Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER®.
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5:45 PM |
Welcome to BoomDays 2009
BoomDays Chair Rick Smith, President of Rigidized Metals Corporation and Julie Barrett O'Neill, Esq., Executive Director of Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER®
Shoreline Cleanup Report and Volunteer Recognition - Kerri Bentkowski, Citizen Action Coordinator, Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER® |
6:15 PM |
Living Waters: Reading the Rivers of the Lower Great Lakes Reading and Book Signing - Margaret Wooster, author and Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER® Watershed Planner. Books will be available for purchase.
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6:30 PM |
Music Begins - The Stonebridge Band
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8:30 PM |
Poetry Contest Winners Announced 50/50 Split
Fireworks Display by WNY Skylighters
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9:00 PM |
Music Resumes - The Stonebridge Band |
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SATURDAY NIGHT CELEBRATION @ LASALLE
YACHT CLUB
73 South 68th Street - Niagara Falls, NY |
| 6:00 PM |
Food & Beverage available for purchase
@ LaSalle Yacht Club |
| 6:15 PM |
Music - Ladies First Jazz, created by Jennifer May |
| 6:45 PM |
Canon Fire / Musket Fire - LaSalle Yacht Club & Fort Niagara
Canoe Landing - LaSalle, Hennepin, Frontenac & Co.
Pledge of Allegiance
Environment Pledge of Allegiance
City Proclamation - Mayor Paul Dyster
Senate Proclamation - Senator Antoine Thompson
Song - America the Beautiful
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| 7:15 PM |
Music - Ladies First Jazz, created by Jennifer May |
| 7:30 PM |
LaSalle Waterfront Park Plans Bar Area Large TV |
| 8:30 PM |
Fireworks Display by WNY Skylighters
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| 9:10 PM |
50/50 Split
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| 9:15 PM |
Music - Ladies First Jazz, created by Jennifer May
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SATURDAY NIGHT CELEBRATION @ YOUNGSTOWN YACHT CLUB
491 Water Street - Youngstown, NY
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| 5:00PM |
Cash/Credit Bar and Dinner @ Youngstown Yacht Club
Reservations suggested - call (716) 745-7230 X14
Meet the Fleet; Mount Gay Rum Specials; Racing Boats & Centerboard Boat Display
Information on Racing, Cruising, Junior and Adult Sailing
Special BoomDays Yacht Club Membership Incentives to New Members
Robin Foster from the Buffalo Audubon Society will have information on our rich natural world and a display about Spring birds - migration, nesting, and the species that live along the Niagara Frontier. Kids can make baskets of nesting materials to hang up in their yards to make their neighborhood a bird-friendly habitat.
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| 7:00 PM |
Music - The Carl Filbert Band
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