[StBernard] St. Bernard Salutes America 27th Annual Celebration to be Sunday, July 3rd

[Westley Annis]

St. Bernard Salutes America 27th Annual Celebration to be Sunday, July 3rd

Music by 5 Finger Discount, 1st Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest,

food and fireworks at Torres Park

 

The St. Bernard Salutes America 27th Annual Celebration at Torres Park and
the Community Playground on Sunday, July 3 will be from 5 to 9 p.m. at 8201
W. Judge Perez Drive in Chalmette behind the St. Bernard Parish Government
Complex. 

There will be live music by 5 Finger Discount from 5:30 to 9 p.m., and the
first, annual Hot Dog Eating Contest open to the first 10 registrants and
sponsored by Stonewall's BBQ will be at 7 p.m. The celebration also will
include a wide variety of hot food as well as snowballs, popcorn. Children's
activities will include an 18-foot dry slide with two lanes and space walk
donated by Insane Inflatables. Also the children will have two rock walls
for climbing, a trackless train for riding and much more. Additionally, the
St. Bernard Parish Fire Department will man its Smoke House, a fire safety
teaching activity. The event will end with the traditional finale of
fireworks. Admission is free. Those interested in participating in the Hot
Dog Eating Contest must pre-register by calling Treasure Schwab at
504-224-0798 to receive registration forms.

Additionally, Mel Malone's State Farm office will be doing face painting,
and they will hold a fund raiser for the St. Bernard Animal Services
Department, which will have animals on site for adoption. 

The event will begin at 5 p.m. with the annual Patriotic Program sponsored
by the St. Bernard Business & Professional Women's Club, prior to the St.
Bernard Salutes America event. Citizens may bring a bell and join in ringing
the replica of the Liberty Bell that was presented as a USA Bicentennial
gift to the citizens of St. Bernard Parish, by the members of the Business &
Professional Women's Club.  

Come support the vendors who will be offering a variety of hot food
including pulled pork, sausage on a stick, chicken and sausage gumbo, BBQ
chicken drumettes, shrimp pasta, BBQ brisket, jambalaya, ribs, corn grits,
hamburgers, hot dogs, nachos. There also will be other favorites including
cheesecake with praline sauce gourmet cupcakes, snowballs, cotton candy and
candy apples.

 

The Events Committee would like to thank its sponsors: The Times-Picayune,
Murphy Oil Corporation, Domino Sugar, SDT, Meraux Foundation, Royal
Engineers & Consultants, Burk- Kleinpeter, Inc.; Disable Veterans of LA,
Disabled Vets of La Ch. 4, Principal Engineering, Inc.; Beta Testing, CDM,
Barowka & Bonura Engineers & Consultants, Craig P. Taffaro, Jr.; Insane
Inflatables, Chalmette Refining, Professional Service Industries, Jack
Stephens, Ordes Electric, Waggonner & Ball Architects, APC; Morgan
Contracting, Inc.; Perez, APC; Kiwanis Club of St. Bernard, Ray Lauga,
Dorothy Benge, James P. Quatroy, Global Risk Solutions, Gulf Coast Bank and
Trust, James J. Licciardi, Jr.; St. Bernard Republican Party, and Mike
Bayham.                         

 

For more information, contact Treasure Schwab at 504-224-0798 or Samanthia
Miller at 504-278-4349. 

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