PHOENIX (3TV / CBS5) – You might want to double check your city’s website before watching fireworks this weekend. While dozens of exhibitions are held across the valley, some major events such as the Tempe Town Lake Festival and Fabulous Phoenix 4th in Central Phoenix are being canceled. The decision to cancel these normally well-attended events doesn’t fit a Phoenix restaurant owner well. Directly across from the city’s biggest fireworks is the George and Dragon English Pub. Instead of thousands of people coming through your door on Sunday, things will go on as usual. “That the City of Phoenix is doing this for me and all the other local businesses is not right,” said David Wimberley, owner of George and Dragon. The last 26 years have not always been so classy for this English pub. “We’ve been through a lot, the biggest one, the light rail,” said Wimberley. Wimberley is on Central Avenue near Indian School Road and said they nearly closed while the light rail was being built. “Because you couldn’t come here,” said Wimberley. Your salvation, the July 4th vacation. “The ironic thing is that July 4th is the busiest bar in downtown Phoenix, an English pub,” said Wimberley. Every year the City of Phoenix usually hosts its largest Independence Day event at Steel Indian School Park, but it was canceled last year due to COVID-19; and now again this year. “I left again? Last year I can understand it was horrible what we went through, but this year it doesn’t make any sense, ”said Wimberley. A post on the city’s website cites COVID-19 as the reason for the 2021 cancellation. “And yet all the suburbs can have their events, we should celebrate what we’ve been through in the past year and a half,” said Wimberley. Copyright 2021 KPHO / KTVK (KPHO Rundfunkgesellschaft). All rights reserved.
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