Party in park highlights one other enjoyable Fourth of July

Party in park highlights one other enjoyable Fourth of July

Published 3:30 am Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Newcomers and regulars made a day of the Fourth of July in Carrie Blake Community Park celebrating America’s 250th anniversary with music, meals, fireworks, and enjoyable instances.

The City of Sequim branded the occasion the Party on the Park with festivities beginning with a joint live performance between Sequim City Band and Peninsula Singers known as “Sounds of America.”

“We always have a great time,” mentioned band director Tyler Benedict. “This is one of our biggest concerts of the year and we’re just so happy to have the community turn out. We put in a lot of work and it’s great to have the community see that.”

This 12 months marks the band’s thirty fifth 12 months, and for the July 4 present, they traced America’s musical journey by means of its historical past, honored service women and men, and performed a number of patriotic songs with the Peninsula Singers on the James Center for the Performing Arts.

Several concert-goers got here in purple, white, and blue apparel with many saying they’ve made the present an annual custom.

The Moog household attended the occasion for the primary time, they usually liked it, mentioned father/husband Jeff Moog.

Along with the music, there have been yard video games, splash zone areas, meals vehicles, and a beer and wine backyard within the park all main as much as fireworks at 10 p.m. on the south aspect of the park.

There was additionally a historic hands-on occasion known as the America250 Experience Hall within the Guy Cole Event Center.

This was the primary Independence Day in Sequim the place fireworks are totally banned, following a choice years in the past to ban the discharge of client fireworks in metropolis limits, and a more moderen choice to ban the sale of client fireworks.

Battalion Chief Chris Turner mentioned Clallam County Fire District 3 had 33 calls on July 4 with one name for a smoke investigation north of Walmart however they had been unable to seek out the supply.

Medics additionally responded to at least one incident at Carrie Blake Community Park the place a confetti popper was activated too near a baby’s ear, however no accidents had been reported.

“All in all, it was a ‘typical’ shift with a steady flow of medical responses, lift assists, and welfare checks,” Turner mentioned.

Peninsula Communications stories 21 calls had been made to 911 about fireworks in Sequim on July 4 with 5 of these throughout the metropolis’s fireworks present.

Sequim Police Chief Mike Hill reported that from July 3-5, officers obtained calls of 15 alleged fireworks violations, in comparison with 14 in 2025 and 2024, and 16 in 2023.

Of this 12 months’s complaints, 14 had been made between 2 p.m.-11:45 p.m. on July 4, and officers found 5 of the calls had been for fireworks being set off outdoors Sequim metropolis limits. Other calls had been checked, and no violations had been noticed when officers arrived, Hill mentioned.