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Globe/Roger Nomer Josh Glasson on Friday waves Old Glory to attract customers to his family’s fireworks stand on Main Street in Joplin.


Globe/Roger Nomer Brayden Hall gets a temporary airbrush tattoo under the watchful eye of his father, Phillip Hall, at Joplin’s Freedom Fest.


Globe/Gary Crow Kylie Humphrey on Friday displays her partner before the turtle races that were part of the celebration in Miami, Okla.

Published July 04, 2008 09:23 pm - The Hasselquist family opted for homemade potato salad and fried chicken in the afternoon instead of sparklers and artillery shells in the evening.

Area residents celebrate Fourth with family picnics, Freedom Fest



By Greg Grisolano

ggrisolano@joplinglobe.com

The Hasselquist family opted for homemade potato salad and fried chicken in the afternoon instead of sparklers and artillery shells in the evening.

Conflicting work schedules meant the family could not be together Friday night to watch a traditional Fourth of July fireworks display, so they met for a picnic at Turk Park in Joplin.

“When I was a little kid, we always had our church Sunday school picnic on the Fourth of July and I’ve always felt at loose ends (not having a picnic),” Janine Hasselquist said. “Nothing can really replace the church picnic; this is close.”

Janine, her husband, Roy, and children, Laura, Kevin and Alison, of Webb City, were joined at the park by family friend Matt Peek.

Peek said he planned to spend the evening shooting fireworks at his mother’s home in Duenweg.

“We’re really doing it for my grandma because she likes to see the fireworks,” he said. “I think we spent about $500 or $600 this year.”

Elsewhere in Joplin, families and friends gathered to enjoy the city’s annual Freedom Fest at Landreth Park, or congregated in back yards for barbecues, or headed to the city’s public pools to cool off.

Jerome and Leslie Willm, of Foyil, Okla., brought their daughter, Marisa, 7, to Ewert Park Aquatic Center for a swim Friday afternoon.

“We stayed here last night, and we’re going to be staying again tonight,” Leslie said, adding that the family planned to attend the Joplin fireworks display later that evening.

The Willms said they weren’t going to let high gas prices deter them from making the trip.

“We wanted to get away for a small mini-vacation,” Jerome Willm said.

“I told him I think we needed our heads examined,” Leslie Willm joked about making the trip in the family’s sport utility vehicle.

Music and fireworks brought Nancy Conrad, her sister Paula Sample, and a passel of grandchildren out to Landreth Park on Friday afternoon.



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