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Weekly show from Coastal Companion about Upcoming events in Georgia. This episode is for the week of July 4, 2008. Find out how to celebrate Independence day Riverstreet style in Savannah, watch fireworks on Tybee Island, visit Fort King George for Cannons Across the Marsh or visit the small town of St Marys for a family-friendly Fourth of July festival. Find out what to see, what to do and where to go.

Weekly show from Coastal Companion about upcoming events on the coast of Northeast Florida. This episode is for the Independence Day weekend  2008. Our host Joe is taking a look at Freedom, Fanfare and Fireworks and the Jacksonville Landing, the Fourth of July parade in Vilano Beach, and fireworks in St. Augustine. Find out what to see, what to do and where to go.

Coastal Companion Weekly, South Carolina Edition contains the following:

This show is for the fourth of July weekend, 2008 for coastal South Carolina, highlighting the Fourth of July Blast at Patriots Point in Charleston, the boat parade at Murrells Inlet, Red, White, Blue on the Green in Summerville. Find out how to create your own fireworks and much more. Find out what to see, what to do and where to go in this weekly show from Coastal Companion about Upcoming events in South Carolina. .

St. Augustine, Fla. – The World Golf Hall of Fame IMAX Theater will begin selling tickets to its special engagement of Warner Bros. Pictures’ “The Dark Knight” beginning Thursday, July 3 at 12:01 a.m. in advance of the film’s nationwide release set for July 18. The public can purchase advance tickets on-line at www.wgv.com or at the World Golf Hall of Fame box office.

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Members of the Southeast Regional Marine Mammal Stranding Network successfully removed a black rubber strap Tuesday that was wrapped around the head of a juvenile bottlenose dolphin, averting a life-threatening injury.

In a coordinated effort, NOAA and network members located the juvenile dolphin in the Wilmington River, part of the intracoastal waterway near Savannah, Ga., and removed the piece of rubber that had wrapped around the area between its flippers and blowhole.
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Living history interpreters recreate life at Fort Clinch during the War between the States. Activities may include powder artillery demonstrations, marching drills, as well as soldiers and civilians taking up duty in the laundry, infirmary and kitchen. For details call (904) 277-7274.

Summer concert series on the Waterfront Park in Downtown Darien
Riverbend, Vic Waters, Fireworks. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for Children 6-12, Under 6 is FREE
call 912-437-6684 for more information

Celebrates Independence Day in Fernandina Beach

Bring your family and celebrate Independence Day at Central Park in Fernandina Beach on Friday, July 4, 2008 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with the Stars & Stripes Freedom Festival. A Touch-A-Truck Public Safety display will include cars, trucks, boats, motorcycles, dump trucks, garbage trucks, excavators, front-end loaders, school buses, limousines, tow trucks, an antique hearse and other vehicles and machinery. Visitors can meet some of the personnel who protect, serve and work in our community and learn about functions and features of these vehicles. Other activities include a Parent-Child Look-A-Like Contest, an All American Apple Pie Contest, Fun for the Kids playground, arts and crafts show, food, vendors, Campaign Booths, and more. Parents and kids, make a thank you card to send to a member of the active military at the Craft Center.

For more information about the Stars & Stripes Freedom Festival, click here.

This is free community concert is held the First Friday of each month from March through October in the historic downtown on Centre Street between 2nd & Front from 6:00pm - 8:00pm. This month’s band is Face for Radio so bring a chair, your dancing shoes (just in case) and a smile and song in your heart.The concert series is presented by Historic Fernandina Business Association.

For additional information, visit www.downtownfernandina.com.