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2004 Placencia Peninsula Events

First Annual Placencia Sidewalk Art Festival, 13-15 February 2004
Children's Magic Show with Professional Magician Kevin Barnes
Placencia Village Council Elections
Volunteers Rebuilding the Placencia  Village Community Dock
Placencia LobsterFest 2004
Placencia Village Graduations
Seine Bight Days 2004
Children's Halloween Parade and Costume Contest
New Year's Eve 2004

Placencia's LobsterFest 2004 literally started off with a bang. 

Around 6 p.m. on Thursday, 24 June, a storm with gusting winds blew the main tent set up by Bowen and Bowen earlier that day into Mr. Bunny's house -- and the electric pole next to it.  The force of the tent hitting the pole broke it, and caused a power outage along the length of the Peninsula. 

BEL responded quickly and restored power to most areas of the Peninsula by around 1:30 a.m. -- everywhere but the Placencia docks, that is. 

Around 8 a.m. on Friday, 25 June, BEL emergency crews arrived to replace the broken pole and to restore power to the dock so that the Fisherman's Co-op would have power to produce ice for LobsterFest. 

Around 11:30 a.m., the BEL emergency crew began digging the hole for the new pole -- and struck the water main for the entire dock area, thus cutting off the source of water for the Co-op's ice house.

In addition, the main Beliken tent was completely destroyed, and no replacements available in the entire country.  (Bad time of the year with lots of graduations and special events.)

Power (and water) were completely restored by around 6 p.m., a number of small tents to replace the large tent were secured, and by 9 p.m., the band played on. 

As for the ice?  Well, only tomorrow will tell.