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The popular annual Quality Foods Festival of Lights takes place on the evening of Saturday, Aug. 15 on Parksville's waterfront. (Image Credit: Pixabay)
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Annual Parksville fireworks display wraps up beach festival

Aug 15, 2026 | 4:21 AM

PARKSVILLE — A dazzling light display will cap off the popular Parksville Beach Festival event.

The Quality Foods Festival of Lights involves fireworks launched from a barge placed in Parksville Bay on the evening of Saturday, Aug. 15. at around dusk (9:30 to 9:45 p.m.)

Saturday night’s fireworks display at Community Park is synchronized to music played on 88.5 FM The Beach.

Attendees are forewarned of scarce parking availability within the Community Park property and immediate downtown area, as thousands of people converge on the waterfront.

The Parksville Beach Festival Society notes traffic control will be in effect between 3 p.m and 11 p.m. on Saturday.

The society reported its 100,000th visitor arrived this past Wednesday to view the 22 world class sand sculptures that remain standing at the park.

Saturday night’s fireworks show unofficially ends the over five-week-long beach festival, which concludes on Sunday, Aug. 17.

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