Local communities gearing up for ‘spark’-tacular Fourth of July

  • She Bakes Cookies and Cakes, LLC’s Shelby Parr sets up a booth at the 2022 Fourth of July Party in the Park Event. This year, the event, which will welcome over 30 vendors, will take place from 5-9 p.m. Tuesday, July 4 in Fair Park. Photo by Shelby Bocanegra
    She Bakes Cookies and Cakes, LLC’s Shelby Parr sets up a booth at the 2022 Fourth of July Party in the Park Event. This year, the event, which will welcome over 30 vendors, will take place from 5-9 p.m. Tuesday, July 4 in Fair Park. Photo by Shelby Bocanegra

    CHILDRESS — The day commemorating independence for the United State of America “ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward and forever more,” future President John Adams wrote in 1776.

    Now, 247 years later, many of those traditions still stand true, as well as some…