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Don’t forget to participate in our Berkeley 4th

July 3, 2012 4:00 pm by Lance Knobel

Fireworks above the Berkeley Marina. Photo: TheRealMichaelMoore

Berkeleyside hopes all our readers enjoy their July 4th. And we also want to hear from you whether you’re attending the big city festivities at the Marina, joining a neighborhood celebration, doing a backyard barbecue with your family, or perhaps ignoring all the hoopla. Let us know what really makes a Berkeley 4th.

If you tweet, use the hashtag #berkeley4th. If you Facebook, let us know on our page. If you have some photos, put them on our Berkeleyside Flickr pool, email them to us or post to Twitter with Instagram or some other service using the hashtag. You can even point us to videos you might post on YouTube or, who knows, send us an mp3 file with a musical contribution for the day. Let your imagination run wild.

We won’t be publishing on July 4th itself (we’re awarding ourselves a holiday — unless major news breaks), but we’ll compile all of your contributions and publish our account of a multifaceted Berkeley 4th the next day. Please join us for the fun.

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  • Toni

    Thanks to all who made Berkeley’s Independence Day celebration such a wonderful event. I walked from my West Berkeley home to catch Mal Sharpe’s Big Money in Jazz band sets, a total joy from the grass, where you could choose either shade or sun and watch a bunch of indefatigable toddlers on the dance floor led by a little girl in pink. Sharpe quipped that he had the only audience younger than Lady Gaga. During intermission, I wandered the area and saw families of all kinds having a great day out. As day changed to night, a neighbor and I headed for the brickyard hill to join hundreds gathered to watch the fireworks display. Through field glasses, the eye-popping artistic explosions seemed directly above. Afterwards, a stream of tired holiday makers filled the pedestrian bridge, bathed in the light of a full moon that danced across the water of Aquatic Park. We are blessed.