Annual Geist Fireworks on July 4th

July 4, 2008
9:30 pm	to	10:30 pm

Geist Lake Coalition members are feverishly dialing for dollars again this summer raising money for the annual Geist fireworks scheduled for Friday, July 4th.

“We need around $30,000 this year and every little bit helps,” said long-time Geist Lake Coalition member Scott Rodgers.

This year’s title sponsor of the event is Eddy’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill owned by Scott Foster. While he wanted to do something for the community, it was his childhood memories of watching the fireworks that cinched the deal for the Geist Lake Coalition.

“When I was growing up in Fort Wayne, my fondest memories were going out on the lake in Coldwater, Michigan and seeing the fireworks on the Fourth of July,” Foster recalled.Donations are warmly accepted by mailing a check made payable to the “Geist Lake Coalition” to PO Box 103, Fishers, Indiana 46038.

Fireworks will be shot from the undeveloped island just off of Admirals Sound on the south end of Geist Reservoir. Rodgers claims that the best viewing is from the southern shores or from a boat on the water. In years past, fireworks were fired from the dam on the southern most end of the Reservoir.

“Homeland Security made us move them from the dam which has increased our cost a bit.”