It's official!!! For as long as I have had cognitive reasoning skills, I've noticed that Jefferson County has allowed merchants to sell fireworks on my birthday. It happened again this year, on June 22, 2009 the fireworks stands around my home near Festus opened. I have no doubt that they were doing it from the day I was born, so for 58 years now, the county has honored my birthday by allowing fireworks to be sold.