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From the Bank of the West website:
Celebrates America | June 29, 2007 | Omaha, Neb.
Bank of the West sponsors this free outdoor concert, which draws record crowds to Memorial Park each year and kicks off Independence Day weekend. A spectacular fireworks display follows the show.
Two years after its purchase of Commercial Federal Bank, the Bank of the West is continuing the tradition of a concert and fireworks in Memorial Park. Is the bank paying for Omaha Police to provide traffic and crowd control? What does it cost to clean up the park afterwards? Were people surprised at the length of this year's fireworks show (less than six mnutes) compared to previous years?
How about the Omaha World-Herald's fireworks show at Rosenblatt Stadium? Does the newspaper foot the bill for police assistance for that event? If not, what is the cost to taxpayers?
28 comments:
The ORoyals foot the bill, because it's still one of their games. No taxpayer worries.
"The ORoyals foot the bill..."
Are these the same ORoyals who pay $1 a year to use Rosenblatt Stadium?
Sounds a little fishy to me.
Time for the I-Team to investigate!
For a good fireworks show that lasted longer than 6 minutes...you should have been in Plattsmouth tonight. There was a 31 minute show that was all donated by a private individual. It was well worth the drive to see!
Wow, Bank of the West. Same company that offered me 5.6% CD and then charged me a $300 fee. Woo hoo. I'll stick to a big-time bank like Wells Fargo or Bank of America.
It was disappointing, only 6 minutes.
the fireworks sucked! ZERO finale!
How much did you pay to see them again?
Hey Fahey:
The (illegal) ones in my neighborhood or the lame ones that Bank of the West tried to pass off as spectacular?
The Oroyals do not pay the bill. In their contract with the City, I belive the Royals are given 75 thousand dollars by the City to put on the show and for their Friday night fireworks shows
You should read the contract and see how much the Royals are taking taxpayer money. $100,000 a year just to leave town for the CWS.
Another story idea: What's going to happen to the fireworks if a NoDo baseball stadium is built?
Will the fireworks move to NoDo? Who will pay to sweep the fireworks debris off of the Qwest Center roof? Will the Qwest Center charge people $10 to get into the parking lot so they can watch the fireworks?
Most importantly: will the zoo animals go crazy due to lack of fireworks on Fridays during baseball season?
For "free fireworks", I think the biggest one in the whole area is the one they do down in Nebraska City. We went this year for the 3rd straight time, and it's awesome! It runs over ONE HOUR, and they do both ground displays and aerials and coordinate it to music. Since it's less than an hour from the Metro, we love taking the whole family. Good small-town entertainment!
Nebraska's fascination with fireworks is reminicent of a retare watching a disco ball.
At least we Nebraskans have the decency not to knock the mentally challenged.
11:39 a.m.:
What's a "retare"?
Note to heywood...just because 11:39 spots one in the mirror every morning, doesn't mean he can correctly spell out what he sees.
If he could, then he wouldn't be...would he?
I think 11:39 meant retard, and I couldn't agree more.
Nebraskan=Retard.
And face it 2:41, it isn't "knocking" retards, it is making fun of Nebraskans, whose heartland values aren't better than everyone else's as they like to believe. Which leads us down the road as to why the local news sucks because it is trying to kiss the ass of the "heartland values". Especially you Channel Six.
Bank of the West is owned by a company based in France. Blame it on the French! Now another reason to hate them.
blowing stuff up rules! wooooooo Huskers!!!!
(cue the banjo)
11:39 AM and 12:07 AM:
I guess you guys haven't been to DC or New York either; people there seem to go just as nuts about fireworks as the people in the "heartland" do. Get off your high horse and realize that people are people no matter where you go.
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