The loss of a big event in Morrisville means that for the first time the town will have its own Independence Day fireworks.

The display will take place Friday night at Morrisville Community Park around 9:15 p.m.

"Hopefully the weather will be good to us," said Jerry Allen, Morrisville's Director of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources. "We'll have a 20-25 minute fireworks display there at the park."

Usually, Morrisville would have already had its annual "Day at the Park" in mid-June, but that event was cancelled because of the recession.

"When budgets got tight we had to make some additional reductions and that event had to be taken out," said Allen. "So Day at the Park went away, but unfortunately by the point we cancelled it we already had contracts in place, one of those being a fireworks contract."

Since the town was contractually obligated to have fireworks, officials just moved it back a few weeks.

The display costs about $5,000; if Day at the Park had gone on as planned the town would have spent ten times that amount.

Following Friday's fireworks there will be a couple different events on Saturday.

Firefighters will be hosting a pancake breakfast at Morrisville Community Park from 8 to 10 a.m.

Then at 2 p.m., the Fire Department will have a "wet down" ceremony to welcome its newest truck; kids are invited to bring their water guns and join the fire hoses in dousing the truck at Fire Station Number Two.

The Fire Department will have hot dogs and refreshments available.