{"id":39738,"date":"2022-06-30T16:50:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T22:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/rico-to-throw-three-day-fourth-of-july-celebration\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:51:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:51:32","slug":"rico-to-throw-three-day-fourth-of-july-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/rico-to-throw-three-day-fourth-of-july-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Rico to throw three-day Fourth of July celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f65d1de5-9e01-4ad0-88bd-db4186892538&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1225\" alt=\"Rico will hosts July Fourth parades, live music, art shows, a foot race, and a community picnic over the weekend. It is capped off with fireworks Monday night.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Rico will hosts July Fourth parades, live music, art shows, a foot race, and a community picnic over the weekend. It is capped off with fireworks Monday night.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Rico will hold a three-day Fourth of July celebration featuring a slate of events topped including fireworks Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The San Juan National Forest announced Thursday that it has rescinded its Stage 1 fire restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the Rico Women\u2019s Club Bake Sale will be at the fire station, and its arts and crafts show will be set up at the school and run through Monday.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, an Old Timers\u2019 Community Picnic will be held at Town Park and include a volleyball tournament. Visitors may bring a side dish. At 9 p.m., the Light Parade starts at Soda and Silver streets. Everyone is welcome to join.<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-x-im-unordered-list\">On July 4 at 8:15 a.m., the Dan Holmes Memorial Fun Run, hosted by the Rico Trail\u2019s Alliance, starts at the courthouse.At 10 a.m., parade floats line up at the Rico Church.At 11 a.m., the parade begins. The grand marshal is Mike Curran.At noon, the Rico Fire Department hosts Pat Fallon\u2019s Philly Cheese Steak and hot dog lunch.At 2 p.m., the Rico Blues Project plays at the Enterprise Bar and Grill. For information and specials, visit the Enterprise Bar\u2019s Facebook page.At 3 p.m., the traditional Duck Race begins on the Dolores River. The finish line is at the West Rico bridge. Tickets for the duck race may be purchased at www.ricofire.org.About dusk, the fireworks show begins.<\/div>\n<p>Fire bans are in place for Rico and the rest of Dolores County, but the Rico Fire Department said recent storms dumped more than 3 inches of rain on the area, making conditions safe for a controlled fireworks show. Open fires are not allowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fireworks possible thanks to recent rains, fire chief says; San Juan Forest drops fire restrictions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,497],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-39738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-rico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84429,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39738\/revisions\/84429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39738"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=39738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}