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Wednesday, January 6, 2021
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HR’s pyro jam session
People lined the Event Site and Port Marina area Thursday night for an unusual New
Year’s Eve sight: Fireworks over the waterfront. Hood River Eyeopener Lions put
on a 20-minute spectacular on a dry, 50-degree evening. Pyro crew member Brett
Stomps holds up a grapefruit-sized mortar. Orange bursts are seen from the packs
of pyro tubes set up starting at 8 a.m. Thursday by the Lions Pyro Crew. Come 7:58
p.m. the display opened open like an expectant champagne cork pop, and it felt like
doors and windows opened to fill the sky with celebration sounds, the Lions’ blowing
upwards a show similar to the July 4 exhibit they had to postpone. But the rollicking
rockets had their own personality — a year-end “throw-2020-to-the ether” feel (a
few red blossoms that looked eerily like coronavirus), flowing jaggedly into some-
thing like a rock-and-roll jam: Golden sparkling lead guitar riffs, big blue puffs like
well-timed bass lines, mingled with drum-solo neon-green shots, and as the party
counted down its last minutes, the whole band pulled together into a shouting, ca-
reening finale, hot shimmering streamers and fiery champagne geysers shooting
right and left, all of it leaving the people on the banks of the Hood River whooping,
clapping, and yelling thanks.
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