Big Kaboom

For Chelsea City Fest 2017, the Big Kaboom is July 1 in the large grassy area behind the Dairy Queen on County 47. For children, there will be a Red, White and Blue Bicycle Parade at 6 p.m. Participants can bring their decorated bikes, along with wagons for the younger ones. It will begin at Chelsea Corners Way and end at Hartley’s Restaurant. Liberty Baptist Church is sponsoring a kid’s zone with activities, face painting and inflatables. The Chelsea Fire Department will display some of its equipment. 

The larger event also will bring more cars. There will be about 900 parking places near the event. Councilman Cody Sumners is coordinating with Chelsea’s COP volunteers and traffic patrol. He will be working with the sheriff’s office, which will be directing traffic and blocking roads. Road closures will include County Road 47 at Chesser Crane Road and from Old U.S. 280 to Express Oil, also at ChelseaCorners Way. 

At 6:30 p.m., the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts will have a flag retirement ceremony and give grommets off the flags to localveterans. Local talent will then take the stage before the headlining band’s performance. Compozitionz, a Motown band out of Mississippi reminiscent of The Temptations, will play their first set at 8 p.m. After a break for the fireworks, the band will perform a second set from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m. Picklesimer says this should help stagger the traffic, as some people will leave immediately after the fireworks, and others will stay for the rest of theband’s performance.