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By CHARLIE TOMPKINS
Rappahannock Newt Contributing Writer
As we near the Fourth, I would like to express my sincere admiration and thanks for all those who are working on the event.
Although this is RAAC’s First attempt at the 4th, we have some experienced people in a good committee structure giving a lot of their time to what has arguably become our single biggest community event.
Amongst the things that these hard working volunteers must contend with are two rather prevalent misconceptions in the community.
First, I have been amazed and disheartened to see how many people in this community don’t know anything about RAAC even though the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community has been in business now for over 10 years producing (as its by-laws provide) artistic and community events.
Second, I find it distressing to see such widespread unfamiliarity about the costs involved with the 4th of July. Much debate by some of your best community people has been done about the best way to pay for the costs involved with the 4th, and the most palatable two options that have come up are the vendor fees and the parking levy, both at extremely modest rates.
I would estimate that the 4th of July will cost between, $5,000 and $10,000 to produce. Of course we all know that the town will pick up the fireworks bill to the tune of $3,700, but the rest must come from somewhere.
One of the t. jst prominent citizens of the county commented to me that revenues from the 4th of July
91.2%