MSU prepares huge 4th of July
celebration
Moorhead State University will kick off
its 11th annual Fourth of July Celebration at 1 p.m. on the campus mall.
The celebration is an afternoon of family-oriented entertainment followed
by a community picnic and fireworks display.
The festivities feature continuous stage entertainment all afternoon;
children's games; bingo; hot-air balloon rides; refreshments selling at
Depression-level prices; a special planetarium show, "Galactic
Voyages," running every half hour in Bridges Hall; a Walt Disney
cartoon festival running every half hour in Weld Hall Auditorium; a
children's costume parade and decorated bicycle contest at 1:30 p.m. and
hayrides at 2 p.m.
Some of the region's top fiddlers will compete in an old-time fiddling
contest at 2:30 p.m. on the library porch. Mannskoret Brage, a 66-voice
men's choir from Bergen, Norway, will perform at 4:15 p.m. on the
university mall.
The picnic, open to the public, starts at 5 p.m. behind the Livingston
Lord Library. Dinner can be purchased for a minimal fee. Reservations are
required and can be arranged by calling the MSU Alumni Association Office,
236-2555.
Two all-star youth soccer teams, one from Manitoba and the other from the
Twin Cities, will play a free exhibition game at 6 p.m. near Nemzek Hall.
Following the game, at 8:30 p.m., another Norwegian group, the Larvik
Youth Band, will play Scandinavian community music at Nemzek Field.
At sunset a 45-minute series of fireworks will light up over Nemzek Field,
closing the holiday event.
For more information, contact Lois Selberg, MSU's Fourth of July
coordinator, at 236-2762. Attendance at last year's celebration topped
5,000.
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