Fireworks will be shooting off on New Year's Eve - for the fifth year - outside Ecole Maple Creek middle school in Port Coquitlam.
Licensed pyrotechnicians Natasha Calder and Dustin Stratford are hosting the celebratory event, which was attended by some 2,000 spectators last year. The show will start at midnight at last up to 20 minutes.
The Coquitlam residents, who have worked on light displays for Canada Day, are part of a company called Celebration Fireworks that is allowing the pair to use their gear on Dec. 31.
"The New Year's show was started by us in 2011 when we realized there wasn't very much to do in the area to celebrate or any fireworks nearby," Calder said. "The show is paid for by us and personal donations from neighbours. We go door-to-door before the show and have donation tables set up at the show."
Calder said they have secured a permit from the PoCo fire department and been given the okay from the middle school.
"They both love that we do the show because it stops people from wanting to do their own fireworks unsafely without a permit - and it stops vandalism at the school."
