Town of Colonial Beach

Here we go into the Fourth of July already! Colonial Beach hosts a beautiful firework show actually on the Fourth.

Fireworks are shot off of the Municipal Pier in downtown Colonial Beach. If you have never seen a fireworks show over the water you are in for a treat. Starting right after dark between 9-9:15 the show is beautiful.

Find a spot near High Tides on the Potomac and listen to the band in the lead up to the show.

Parking is always at a premium on the Fourth. Get there early or you will be walking a distance. Many folks get to the beach early and spend the day on the water.

Make note of where you park, public parking lots in CB are not free unless you live in town and have a town sticker on your car.

The lead up to the Fourth includes:

Dockside -Thursday- Happy Hour 5-7, drink specials and Tiki Tacos at 3 for $5. Blind Cornhole tournament. Free to play, win Dockside Dollars

Friday- Happy Hour 5-7, Wings 50-cents each. Trivia is at 7:30, reservations are recommended as tables tend to fill up. Brett Whitson Duo from 6-10 PM

Saturday. 10 AM open for brunch with Mimosa and Orange Crush specials. Ted Garber plays acoustic music from 4:30 PM until 8:30 PM.
Yoko Says No plays from 9 PM to 1 AM.

Sunday features brunch again. Mariah Jean plays an acoustic set from 11-3 PM.
Hard to Tell play 3-7.

High Tides and the Black Pearl Tiki Bar has bands from the 30th through the Fourth.

Friday night starts with Soul Patch. Saturday night is Ghost Pepper.
01 James Handy Band

02 Melodric Drive Band

03 Nighthawks

04 Rock Bottom

05 Whiskey Bent

06 Ole Skool

07 Unchained

All bands are in the sand in the Black Pearl Tiki Bar. While the restaurant is handicap accessible, the Tiki Bar is not. However, there is limited porch seating where you can watch the band.

Colonial Beach Outfitters hosts a Sunday Funday on the town hill stage in town. Band will play from noon til four!

 

 

Please excuse the lack of recent posts. I lost my dear Granny and needed time away.

Email your event to colonialbeachfreepress@gmail.com and it will be listed ASAP.

All events welcome.

13th – 16th On Town Hill the carnival continues! Nightly openings with wristbands available for 20/each.

13th Storytelling and Spoken Word at Colonial Beach Brewing.

17th- Annual Father’s Day Car Show on the Town Hill. Free admission

Bands in town-

Dockside features Bobby and Bart on Friday at 6:30
Ted Garber Saturday at 4 PM.
The Janitors Saturday at 9 PM.
John Luskey Sunday at 11:30 AM.
Taboo Sunday at 3 PM.

High Tides features Southern Bred Friday night.

As if plays on Saturday evening.

Rock Bottom plays Sunday afternoon.

 

 

• Senior Award Banquet: June 4th @ 6 pm (Colonial Beach High School)
• Northern Neck Technical Center Completion Ceremony: June 6th @ 7 pm (Rappahannock High School, Warsaw Virginia)
• Kindergarten Graduation: June 7th @ 9 am (Colonial Beach Elementary)
• 7th Grade Graduation: June 7th @ 6 pm (Colonial Beach Elementary) 
• CBES Field Day: June 8th @ 8:30 (Colonial Beach High School Athletic Fields)
• CBHS Graduation: June 10th @ 2 pm (Colonial Beach High School)
• CBHS Field Day: June 11th @ 8:30 am (Colonial Beach High School Athletic Fields )

 

Write-up by Robin Schick

 

Quickly approaching is our 7th Annual Save the Bay Day in Colonial Beach.  On June 2nd between 8:30 – 9:30 am we will be registering volunteer participants for cleaning up the trash along our shorelines and streets in town.

 

The last 6 years we have hosted between 100-150 participants annually in this event, and we are looking forward to this year being Lucky Number 7 and just as great!  When you come register that morning you are provided gloves, large neon orange construction trash bags, bottles water, and a t-shirt promoting awareness for this event (as available).  After volunteers spend 2 +/- hours collecting trash in town they leave their bags by the roadside for the very helpful courtesy pick-up the town offers for the event, then the volunteers return to home base to record what progress was made and to enjoy a hot lunch after their dedicated morning effort.

 

Our mission, aligned with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, is to actively promote environmental stewardship of the water and shoreline we so enjoy and to maintain the beauty of our community.  We encourage families, youth groups, and people of all ages to participate together, creating a stronger sense of pride and collaboration in our small wonderful town.

 

This one day a year we ask a lot of our volunteers, but we also have to ask a lot of our community in order to support this event.  Each year we ask for signage, supplies, water, promotion, and lunch by donations from our local businesses and civic organizations and we can’t be thankful enough to each one that continues to make this event possible.  We need each and every donation.

 

IF we can exceed our operation costs we hope that this year, lucky number 7, we can expand to host not only our annual clean-up day and the 100+ people that join us but to also begin an oyster restoration project that will continue cleaning the bay all year long.

 

This year we ask if it is possible for you to make even a $20 donation to this event.  Please help grow our wave of improvement to the environmental quality we so love about our community.

 

Honestly, our efforts may be small and may seem very minute to the bigger issues our natural environment faces.  But we have to start somewhere and now for 6 years in a row we have hundreds of people walking, kayaking, wading, and climbing our beaches to remove the plastic, rubber, and waste of years gone by when before no one did any of this.  Each year we take a step and leave it better than we found it, making now years of success, and more than 1,500 man hours of trash pick-up in the town of Colonial Beach.

 

Thank you for your consideration and, if you are able, please join us this year on

June 2nd at Colonial Beach Yacht Center to help us Save the Bay!

 

To make a Donation Contact:

Robin Schick at (804) 761-5366, schick.robinmae@gmail.com

or

Mitzi Saffos at (804) 224-0996, mitzisaffos@yahoo.com

or

Donate via Paypal at: https://paypal.me/pools/c/84r31mMTq9

Today at 5:30 PM Colonial Beach School Board will be discussing the 2018-2019 school calendar.

Friday June 1 at St. Mary’s Episocopal Church- Farmer’s Market from 4-7 PM.

High Tides and the Black Pearl Tiki Bar – Cyberbillies band at 7 PM.

Dockside Restaurant and Tiki Bar – Hard to Tell Band from 6-10 PM. Trivia at 7 PM

Saturday at High Tides – Under the Covers at 7 PM.

Dockside – Junkfood at 8 PM.

Sunday:

Town Hill – Diamond Heist as part of the first monthly Sunday Fundays sponsored by Colonial Beach Outfitters. Show goes from noon to 4 PM.

1:30 PM the CBVFD Ladies’ Auxiliary sponsor the baby and Miss CBVFD pageants.

High Tides- 3-7 PM Biscuit Miller and the Mix.

Memorial Day Weekend at Colonial Beach is always hopping with bands and various events with the celebration ending with the Memorial Service at the town’s War Memorial on Irving Avenue.

Friday starts with the Colonial Beach Outfitters Farmers’ Market on the lawn at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. Vendors include Reyes’ Farm, Monrovia Farms, and many others. Cost varies

Friday night there are bands at various restaurants in town.
Dockside features David Andrew Smith starting at 6:00 PM.

High Tides on the Potomac hosts Big Rob and the ETC starting at 7:00 PM.

Tides Inn Market often has live music starting at 6 PM.

Saturday morning the Colonial Beach Baptist Church is hosting a Vendor Pop Up from 10-1.

Saturday night will have KleptoRadio at Dockside, Doc Marten and the Flannels at High Tides, and the Illusions of the Stars show at the Colonial Beach Community Center on Marshall Ave. Tickets for Illusions are 10/each.

Sunday the music continues with Violet Sunn Armada at High Tides and Levi Stephens and Steal the Sky.

Monday morning at 11:00 the American Legion and VFW posts host the Memorial Day Service at the Gun, or War Memorial. Following the service the Legion will host a free lunch at their Post on Colonial Avenue.

The unofficial Colonial Beach kick-off to summer is June 8th – 10th in 2018. With the carnival hosted by the Colonial Beach Volunteer Fire Department Auxillary starting on the 6th events are held throughout the weekend.

Friday night starts with the “Nation’s Loudest Fire and Rescue Parade” which begins at 7:30 P.M. Fire and rescue vehicles from the tri-state area will parade through the streets with their sirens blowing along with candidates for the title of Miss Colonial Beach.

Starting right after the parade on the town stage Miss Colonial Beach is a beauty pagent for young woman aged 16-20 who have neither had a child nor married. 2017’s queen Brooke Payne will unfortunately not be able to attend due to her new job.

Saturday dawns bright with the carnival opening and people staking their claims on the streets for the noon grand feature parade. New town manager Quinn Robertson is the 2018 Grand Marshall for the “Playground on the Potomac” themed event.

 

Following the parade people will scatter until the fireworks which go off on the pier right after dark.

Sunday hosts the boat parade and pet parades. Times for those events are forthcoming as they have been changed this year.