Sunday, May 10, 2009

Dogwood Daze!

The most anticipated festival of spring is here!

The Phoenixville Jaycees will once again host the annual Dogwood Festival and Parade. The fair runs from Monday May 11, 2009 through Saturday May 16, 2009.

The fun begins at 6 p.m. every evening and ends at 10 p.m.

The parade begins at 1 p.m. on Saturday May 16.


Dogwood Festival 2009 Entertainment Schedule


Monday, May 11th

6:30 – 7:30 The Cat’s Pajamas
Eric the Magician
8:00 – 10:00 Brownpenny


Tuesday, May 12th

6:30 – 7:15 PAHS Guitar Club
7:30 - 9:30 EFB “Everybody’s Favorite Band”


Wednesday, May 13th

7:00 -7:30 Prince and Princess Contest
8:00 -10:00 Audubon Symphony Orchestra

6:30 – 7:30 Eric the Magician


Thursday, May 14th

6:30 - 7:15 The Suspects
7:30 – 8:15 Rocket 88
8:30 – 9:15 My Last Day


Friday, May 15th

7:30 – 9:15 BORIS GARCIA


Saturday, May 16th

Klyph Black and Joe Damico

For more information please visit the Jaycees website.

http://www.phoenixvillejaycees.org/DogwoodFestival.htm

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

GOOD NEWS: HOLY Ghost is back in with the food stand selling pirogi and filled cabbage

BAD NEWS: HOLY Ghost still appealing with church funds to try and sell the property by claiming the broherhood is the board off officers. Notice distributed with this last minute meeting to create bylaws.

MISSNG PIECE OF PUZZLE: bylaws of the Saint Nicholas Brotherhood dated 8/1937 turned over to past three Presidents now missing Founding members have a copy.Courts ruled brotherhood owns the land.

SUGGESTION: Use funds from Dogwood to improve your roads on church property and give up on this lawsuit stuff. You will sell more food and get more members this way

Anonymous said...

Lansdale needs your help to change
Published: Monday, May 11, 2009




Exciting things are happening in Lansdale borough.

The Lansdale Farmers Market will grace Railroad Plaza every Saturday beginning July 4th.

Molly Maguires, an authentic Irish restaurant and pub, and one of the first businesses to contribute to Phoenixville's revitalization, has plans to open its Main Street location (plus patio dining) before Christmas.

We have a majority of council and a mayor who have re-envisioned how to actively attract businesses to Lansdale borough.

Last year we spoke with Bernadette Dougherty of Ambler, Malcolm Johnstone of West Chester and Barry Cassidy of Phoenixville, all current or former main street managers who have demonstrated success in bringing older boroughs to life.

The key, we learned, is actively working with real businesses to revitalize our borough, not spending gobs of public money on grandiose projects like the so-called Vine Street Expressway or the new performing arts center.

With the support of Mayor Andy and the majority of council, we voiced interest in hiring someone to spearhead economic development in our borough.

Seeing the borough administration's tepid response to our ideas, Mayor Andy, Mike Riccio, Anne Scheuring and I formed the Economic Development Committee to serve this function.

This volunteer committee (which we created despite resistance from the borough manager and a few councilmen) is working to engage residents and business owners on the future of our borough.

Our goals are lofty: work side by side with the Lansdale Business Association, assist prospective businesses in navigating (and reducing) borough bureaucracy, actively seek quality businesses (restaurants for Main Street; industry for our underutilized commercial quadrant) and help nurture citizen initiatives (like the Lansdale Farmers ' Market).

The results have been nothing short of phenomenal. Mayor Andy and Mike Riccio went to Phoenixville and brought back Declan and Conor, the owners of Mollys, for their first ever visit to Lansdale.

Now they can't wait to open a location in our downtown.

We contacted and gave tours to four different developers who are all excited about using private investment dollars for a mixed use transportation-oriented development in the Madison Parking Lot.

We've thawed the previously frosty relationship with the Lansdale Business Association. And we continue to respond to new (Wes Carver Electric) and existing (the Turbo Lofts) businesses to assist them with the bureaucratic attitude that has sandbagged development in this town for too many years.

Our work is by no means done. At every juncture, our borough manager has been finding problems with Molly Maguires, attempting to dissuade council from approving the plan.

Phoenixville faced the same problem six years ago — and their council had the sense to replace their manager with someone who rolled out the red carpet for the many restaurants, coffee shops and quaint retailers that now fill the storefronts on Bridge Street.

Changing the way Lansdale does business does not happen overnight. We need you, the residents of Lansdale, to voice your support for our efforts. Unfortunately the folks who've run borough hall for years prefer business as usual, valuing new grants and studies over entrepreneurs that would improve the quality of our lives in Lansdale (and the entire North Penn area).

Ask your elected officials why it took 30 years to repeal a parking ordinance that chased prospective businesses out of our downtown. Question why we borrowed $8 million in 1986 to build a non-existent parking garage (the amount is now worth about half its value after 22 years of inflation). And ask your councilmen what, specifically, each of them has done to attract or solicit quality businesses to our borough.

We are changing course. We have a bipartisan group of enthusiastic and committed elected officials who are working to make this happen. Now we need your support, we need to hear your voices and we need your energy to make this change.

Ben Gross is the Democratic candidate for mayor of Lansdale Borough, running along with his very able and forward-thinking friends Andy Szekely and Mike Riccio.

Anonymous said...

"Phoenixville faced the same problem six years ago — and their council had the sense to replace their manager with someone who rolled out the red carpet for the many restaurants, coffee shops and quaint retailers that now fill the storefronts on Bridge Street."

Not the way I remember it????????

Anonymous said...

All you numnutts just keep fighting Mr Cassidy and in the mean time our town has become the gem of any revitalization efforts. Keep grumbling, it's what you all do best.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said

"Our work is by no means done. At every juncture, our borough manager has been finding problems with Molly Maguires, attempting to dissuade council from approving the plan."

Anonymous said
"All you numnutts just keep fighting Mr Cassidy and in the mean time our town has become the gem of any revitalization efforts. Keep grumbling, it's what you all do best."

You are the numnutts, true to form not knowing what you speak of!!!!