with music by the Cap City Band and fireworks fly from Spinnaker Point at 9 p.m. The fireworks, including crowd favorites Whistling Dixie, the Americana and the Golden Eagle, are choreographed to music (July 3–7, 9:30 p.m.). This impressive display is launched every night of the fair from three barges on the lagoon. Light Shows Marin County Fair (San Rafael) on the corner of Second and Main streets and continues down Bridgeway to Caledonia Street, ending at Dunphy Park, where a town picnic features food, entertainment, raffles, the annual tug-of-war and an egg toss. The Fourth of July celebration begins with a pancake breakfast at the Woodacre Fire Station, available starting at 8 a.m., while the parade begins at 12 noon starting from the Woodacre Improvement Club in downtown and festivities contuning until 4 p.m. at the College of Marin parking lot, continues down Poplar Avenue and ends at Ross Common with a picnic featuring food, beverages and children’s games. The procession includes more than 100 entries including classic cars, floats, Irish bagpipers and a Chinese bell and drum corp. in the city’s Old Town district at the corner of Grant and Railroad avenues and continues toward Seventh Street. The annual Buckaroo Breakfast lasts from 7–9 a.m. A celebration at Corte Madera Town Park, with 70 arts and crafts vendors, food, ice cream, snow cones, live music, and carnival games runs from 9 a.m.

from Redwood High School, the parade heads down Magnolia Avenue and into Corte Madera to the Town Center mall. Festivities include the annual Bolinas–Stinson Beach tug-of-war over the channel that separates the two towns. The annual parade kicks off at 40 Wharf Road downtown at 11 a.m.

Stinson beach bolinas tug of war