Readers Respond -- Residents already miss Dunes fireworks

We think the fireworks are sort of a tradition and entertain an awful

lot of people and probably bring revenue into the town, so we would like

to see them continue with the fireworks at the Dunes on the Fourth of

July of this year (“Fourth of July fireworks fizzle at Dunes,” May 11).

LARRY AND BETTY KERR

Newport Beach

Please have the fireworks on the Fourth of July. I have children

coming from all over Orange County to see them and I always have for the

last 40-some years, so I hope that [the city] will just do it.

HELEN DYER

Newport Beach

We’ve been residents of Newport Beach for more than 30 years and,

other than Christmas, this is the highlight of our holiday season for the

year to get together with our children and grandchild and watch the

display. Especially this year after Sept. 11, I think it’s terrible that

the city itself is not doing a display, let alone the Dunes. Having just

returned from ground zero in New York City, it’s frightening that this

year, of all the years, we need to have this, if anything, to give our

children some confidence of the future and that we still have a lot to be

grateful for and a beautiful country in spite of what they did to it.

SANDRA BASMACIYAN

Corona del Mar

Newport Beach can’t be without fireworks on the Fourth of July. That

just wouldn’t be American. We certainly have got to have a display

somewhere and I’d be very disappointed if it can’t be in the Back Bay,

which made it so visible to many, many people even driving along the

road. So I hope we will have fireworks somewhere, maybe off the pier.

FRANCES PEDLEY

Newport Beach

I am in favor of the Dunes’ fireworks continuing. I’d hate to see them

discontinued. Please have the Dunes continue their fireworks. We will

miss them.

LOTUS MCCALLUM

Newport Beach

I’ve lived here almost 40 years, and I will really miss the fireworks

if they don’t have them at the Dunes. I hope something can be done.

KAY EAST

Corona del Mar

How it is that we’re not going to have the fireworks? I’d be more than

happy to give a contribution. I’m sure every resident down here would be.

MARTHA CALHOUN

Balboa Island