Independence Day events on Friday

New Bern

Union Point Park

3 p.m. - Park opens, with food, music, crafts, displays and activities for children including an inflatable park

7 to 9 p.m. - 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing Band

9:15 p.m. - Fireworks

Havelock

City Park

5 p.m. - Opening ceremony

5:15 p.m. - Sack race

5:30 p.m. - Havelock High School plays

6:30 p.m. - Egg relay race

6:45 p.m. - Havelock Community Band

8 p.m. - Pie-eating contest

8:45 p.m. - Fireworks

River Bend

Town Hall, Plantation Drive

9:30 a.m. - Line up for parade

10 a.m. - Parade begins

11 a.m. - Activities and games begin

11:15 p.m. - Patriotic ceremony at town hall

11:45 p.m. - Lunch

Tryon Palace

Friday

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. - Festivities, games, crafts, displays, free garden admission

9 a.m. to 11 a.m., noon to 2 p.m. - Mock cannon loading

11 a.m. - Reading of Declaration of Independence

Oriental

Croaker Festival

Town waterfront along South Avenue and at Lupton Park

Friday

2 p.m. - Croaker Booth opens

5 p.m. - Official opening, 27th annual festival at Lou-Mack Park

6 p.m. - Miss Minnow Pageant

6:30 p.m. - Croaker Queen Pageant

7 p.m. - Photo, baking contest winners announced

8 p.m. Street dance, Deja Groove band

Saturday

8:30 a.m. - Booths reopen

10 a.m. - Parade begins

2 p.m. - Croaker Festival Regatta

3:30 p.m. - Joe Gosman Band

6 p.m. - Street dance, Southern Aires

9:30 p.m. - Fireworks over the town harbor

New Bern Parks and Recreation hosts the city's celebration Friday at Union Point Park, beginning at 3 p.m., featuring entertainment and food vendors. Misting tents will be available to keep help with the effects of heat. Inflatable rides, including slide, obstacle course and bounce house, will be available. Fees will be charged for the rides and will benefit the recreation department teen council, YAAC, which stands for Young Adults Active in the Community.

From 7 to 9 p.m., the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing Band will feature big band music, classical marches and patriotic music. The fireworks show follows.

People will be allowed to take coolers, bags and baskets into the park. Glass bottles, alcohol and bicycles are prohibited. All bags will be screened for banned items. Pets, even those on leashes, will not be allowed inside the park, a departure of the rules in previous years. Service animals such as seeing-eye dogs are permitted.

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