Celebrating community volunteers: Putting on a light show
Fireworks on the Grand Marais harbor, July 4, 2020 - Photo by David R. Johnson
WTIP’s summer pledge drive is a celebration of volunteers—the people who share their time and talents with WTIP North Shore Radio.
WTIP also wants to recognize the many, many other ways that people in our community volunteer to help make life better in the Northland.
WTIP’s Rhonda Silence spoke with Bob Spry of Grand Marais, a man who gets to blow things up as part of his volunteer job!
Bob talks to WTIP about the process of getting the fireworks and setting them up. He stressedthat although he holds the certification to conduct a pyrotechnic show, he needs many assistants. Helping him with the July 4, 2020 fireworks were: John McClure, Gary Nesgoda, Matt Anderson, Nate Raway, Bob Laine, Gideon Silence, Ray Rindahl, and Joey Pederson.
Spry also gave credit for the 2020 Independence Day fireworks display to many individuals and businesses who donated to a fireworks fund. See the donors here.
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