Local News in Brief : Newport Beach : Looking Forward to Fireworks? Forget It
For the first time in decades, the skies over Newport Beach will be dark this Fourth of July.
The City Council voted Monday night to ban public fireworks displays at Newport Dunes and Big Canyon Country Club.
Citing traffic snarls on Balboa Island, along the Coast Highway and San Joaquin Hills Road, City Councilwoman Ruthelyn Plummer asked that the blazing fireworks--with almost 600 shells planned for the Dunes aquatic park alone--be halted.
“It just isn’t worth it,” she said, reading from Police Department recommendations that the displays not be held.
Mayor John C. Cox Jr. spoke sentimentally about childhood memories of the brilliant incendiary explosions, but failed to persuade his colleagues to allow the displays to continue.
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