SUMNER — The annual Christmas Eve fireworks show will illuminate the skies over Cassidy Bayou here on Tuesday, Dec. 24.
Despite a National Weather Service forecast calling for about a 60% chance of rain showers, the show will go on, said Mayor Jackson Webb.
The event is scheduled to start at 7. Don’t worry; it will end long before Santa and his reindeer come flying through this part of the country.
Fireworks will be launched from the Cassidy Bayou bridge in the heart of town, and the display can best be viewed from the streets along the bayou north of the bridge.
The bridge will be closed to traffic starting at 6:45 p.m. Because regulations require that the public be kept a safe distance from the bridge during the show, boundaries will be established on both sides of the span, explained Sumner Town Clerk Toni Clark.
The public is asked to respect boundary markers and to remain outside marked areas, Clark said.
The event, an annual project of the Sumner Volunteer Fire Department, is funded entirely through private donations.
“This is a community effort, so if anyone would like to donate, they can do so by making checks out to the Sumner Volunteer Fire Department and dropping them off with Toni Clark at the town hall,” the mayor noted.
As usual, the holiday light show will be orchestrated and executed by professional technicians from LaFollette, Tennessee-based Pyro Shows.
Some people also use the occasion to light and launch dozens of Chinese lanterns, adding to the luminous spectacle above the quiet waters of Cassidy Bayou.
For more information about Tuesday’s show, or how to donate, call Sumner Town Hall at 662-375-8773.
