Message from the President - 1st Quarter 2010
 
Over 100,000 Celebrate 31st Annual Greenville Avenue St. Patrick's Day Parade
 
A perfect day brought out a huge crowd to enjoy our 31st annual Greenville Ave St Patrick's Day Parade. The parade provided over 100 creative floats, decorated in the Irish spirit and offered our spectators fun and terrific visual delights. Once again it delivered a variety of musical performers, giveaways, Irish themes, costumes and float designs that kept the adults and kids entertained all along Greenville. Jody Dean of KLUV Radio was a big hit as our Grand Marshall and the day was completed with the annual concert featuring Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights and others at the Granada Theater presented by our partner the Dallas Observer.
 
This was a special year as we raised extra funds to help defer some of the parade expenses through our 'Save the Parade' Happy hours and some help from our volunteer bucket patrol. In addition, GAABA was able to contribute some of this money to the employees of the four Lower Greenville Restaurants that were lost in a fire in early March
I want to personally thank our many fine sponsors, the Dallas Special Events Department for our outstanding security service and all our merchants for their help and cooperation. In addition we salute the many volunteers and our GAABA Board members for their hard work to help make this event happen each year. I also appreciate the fine work by Moore Disposal Inc for the terrific clean-up job and the support they had from Recycle Revolution and the Sierra Club. Once again we met the City's timeline for having the streets cleaned and the crossroad open for traffic. National Construction Rentals did a great job delivering and picking up the barricades allowing the clean up crews to perform their jobs in a timely fashion. 
 
The Parade is our signature GAABA event and represents the most attended annual parade in North Texas. We provided a fun and safe environment with minimal disruption to the community. I thank you for another successful year and look forward to 2011.
 
Jorge Levy
Desperados Mexican Restaurant
President - 214-363-1850
GAABA
P.O. Box 729081-443
Dallas, TX 75372
 
 
GAABA Board of Directors:
 
Angela Morris, Branch Manager, Branch Banking & Trust (BB &T) - Treasurer - 214-874-7500
Tommy Donahue - General Manager, Milo Butterfingers - 214-368-9212
Jake Levy - Manager, Desperados Restaurant - 214-363-1850
Eric C. Hill - Attorney - 214-329-0433
Donnell Toler - VP Emergency Ice - 214-747-6746
 

 

DISD High School students to receive $7,500 in awards at May graduation ceremonies

                               

DALLAS-For the second year Students graduating from three Dallas ISD high schools will have the opportunity to win  $2,500 scholarships to the college of their choice thanks to support from The Greenville Avenue Area Business Association, (GAABA).

 Recognizing the importance of public education, GAABA wishes to support Dallas ISD schools in the community. The organization has committed to provided $2,500 each to one graduating senior at each of the following high schools: Emmett J. Conrad, North Dallas and Woodrow Wilson.

 "Our association is proud to award these scholarships for the second consecutive year, providing financial assistance to three deserving high school students in our area who desire a higher education," said Jorge Levy, GAABA president and owner of Desperados Mexican Restaurant. "We believe in the commitment to higher education and we take pride in giving back to the community that supports our area merchants. In these difficult times we feel it's important to help support the Dallas ISD in their efforts to prepare the next generation for the next step in their scholastic development." 

Students must show financial need, and must have applied to a college or university prior to filing the scholarship application. Applications are available from Dallas ISD school counselors at the

three schools, or on the Web site at www.dallasisd.org/parents/scholarship, Finalists were interviewed in April and the scholarship winners will be announced in May.         

In addition to a protion of the Parade funds, profits from the first annual "Savor Mexico" student chef's competition presented by Desperados Mexican Restaurant and GAABA on March 31st went to support the DISD Scholarship fund.