The Labor Day weekend fireworks display over Suttons Bay promises to be good one - if Joe Wisniewski and Mike Kroupa of Peninsula Pyrotechnics have anything to say about it.

Fireworks, music, a community fish boil, a cancer cure fundraiser and two bridge walks are just some of the events planned in Leelanau County for the holiday weekend.

This is the third straight year for the Labor Day weekend fireworks display in Suttons Bay, which will begin at dusk on Saturday. The public beach is considered the prime viewing location.

Wisniewski and Kroupa own the Maple City-based fireworks company that has put on the Suttons Bay display the previous two years. Donna Herman has worked with other community volunteers to make sure the display is a successful unofficial end to the summer season. The displays, which have an estimated cost of between $10,000 and $12,000, were primarily sponsored by the developers of the BayView condominium project in the first two years. This year’s display, Herman said, is being funded mainly by donations from merchants in Suttons Bay and contributions from the public made through collection canisters placed around the village.

“The show is really nice. They shoot it from a barge out in the bay so everyone can see it,” she said.

Chuck Stewart, Suttons Bay village manager, said this year’s display might have a little something extra after a firing mishap resulted in the “grand finale” being launched just eight minutes into the show in 2006. “The show usually lasts about a half hour and the company is reimbursing us for this year’s show,” he said.

Before the fireworks begin, a band will perform on a stage set up by the beach. Mary Bush, who is helping organize the pre-fireworks festivities, said Camelot Construction will install the stage and a band consisting of local musicians will play throughout the evening.

“There will also be open mic for anyone who wants to get up and perform music, poetry, almost anything,” Bush said. The band will start playing around 6 p.m.

Suttons Bay will not be the only community in a celebratory mood Saturday. The Northport-Omena Chamber of Commerce will host its second annual Northport Fish Boil from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday at Haserot Park. Dorothy Irvine said last year’s event attracted a crowd of about 750 people.

“We had a little bit of food left over. This year, we’d like to get a few more people,” she said. The goal is to serve at least 800 fish boil dinners.

“We don’t want the food sitting there, getting cold,” Irvine said, with a laugh.

The chamber has 400 pounds of whitefish waiting to be cooked in brine water that suffuses the fish with a salty taste. Add some potatoes and onions, smother the serving with melted butter and some dinner rolls, and offer apple or cherry pie for dessert and a beverage, and organizers say a tasty meal that goes toward a good cause results.

“We have a hot dog plate for children who don’t like the fish dinner. A little something for everyone,” Irvine said.

Another big event is the Miles for Mammograms Alice Busby Memorial Walk, which starts at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Organized by the Zonta Club of Leelanau County, it’s the major fundraiser for Zonta’s Free Health Day, which takes place each fall.

Participants may register for the walk starting at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday next to Northport Lumber in downtown Northport. Registration forms are also available at the D. H. Warm Pool & Fitness Center. Walkers may choose between a two-mile and 4.5-mile walk. The cost to register is $20.

The Labor Day weekend wraps up with two bridge walks in Leelanau County. The oldest, by about a year or two, is the Glen Lake M-22 Narrows Bridge Walk. The structure was recently named the Carl Oleson Jr. Memorial Bridge.

The Glen Lake bridge walk starts at noon on the north end of the bridge. T-shirts commemorating the walk are available at Glen Arbor area businesses at well.

The Leland Holiday Options Committee is sponsoring the ninth annual M-22 Bridge Walk in Leland, which also starts at noon. Walkers should gather at in the parking area of the DNR boat launch site east of the Bluebird Restaurant prior to noon. At noon, walkers will head west on River Street, then south on M-22, across the bridge, and disburse at the Old Art Building.