Fourth Quarter 2009
Sewickley Village Newsletter
 Sewickley Business District Advisory Committee
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Welcome!
Calendar of Events
Patron Appreciation Day
Shop Sewickley Village First
New Marketing Tool
Village E-Newsletter
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Welcome to Our New Business!

Cartouche'
 
559 Beaver Street
412-741-9555
Monday-Saturday
 
Pamela Squires and Vicki Bomberger have re-opened Pie in the Sky Jewelry under the new name of Cartouche'.  Pam is a jewelry designer and makes most of the jewelry in the store.  She also does custom work to match that special outfit. 
 
Pam and Vicki do weddings, parties and children's jewelry.  They are committed to keeping their prices in a range so that everyone can enjoy a great piece of jewelry.  Bracelet prices, for example, range from $7 to $350.
 
Stop by soon to see the beautiful variety of antique, vintage and contemporary jewelry. 
  Sewickley Village Calendar of Events 
 
First Saturday in April to last Saturday in November
St. James Farmers' Market
9 AM to 1 PM
St. James Parking Lot 
 
Wednesday Evenings--Open Studio with painter Claire Hardy
Sewickley Gallery and Frame Shop
549 Beaver Street from 5 to 7 pm  
 
November 21
Patron Appreciation Day
Sewickley Public Library
Kettle corn, raffle, teen & children's activities and more!
11 AM to 5 PM

November 28 - December 6
Holiday Mart
Sweetwater Center for the Arts
11 AM to 6 PM daily
November 28-Champagne Reception 5-7 PM, $30 or $35/door
December 1 & 2-Luncheons 11:30 AM to 2 PM, $12
December 4-Let the Men Cook! 5 to 9 PM, $12

November 30-December 26 
Yuletide in the Village!

December 1
Tree of Life Fundraiser
Sewickley Valley Hospital
6:30 PM
Lighting of the tree, entertainment and refreshments.
Free and Open to the Public

December 2, 4, 9, 16, 23
Free Carriage Rides at Wolcott Park from 6 to 8 PM

December 5, 12, 19
Free Carriage Rides at Wolcott Park from 11 AM to 1 PM
 
December 4--Light Up Night, 5 to 9 PM

Entertainment on Broad Street from 5 to 9 PM
Sounds of Pittsburgh--5 to 5:20
Sewickley Academy Jazz Ensemble--5:25 to 5:45
Sewickley Academy Music Club--5:50 to 6:10
Drea Chamberlain--6:10 to 6:25
Lighting of the Village--6:20
Spotlight Performing Arts Academy--6:30 to 6:50
Montessori Children's Community School--6:55 to 7:15
Doris Singer Dance Studio--7:20 to 7:40
JP Dance Gallery--7:45 to 8:05
Michele's Dance Center--8:10 to 8:30
Crossing Boundaries--8:35 to 8:55

Entertainment on Walnut Street from 6 to 8 PM
Encouraging Angels--6 to 8

Food booths, raffle, church activities, children's activities at the Library.
 
December 5--Santa Parade 10:30 am
Visits with Santa 10:30 to 1
Wolcott Park
Letters to Santa 11 to 2
Library

December 12, 19
Visits with Santa 10 to 2
Wolcott Park

The Sewickley Valley YMCA is an important organization that offers a large variety of classes and programs for children, adults and seniors. Check out their www.sewickleyymca.org for more information. 

For more upcoming events in the Village of Sewickley, please visit www.towncenter.info
Patron Appreciation Day!
 
Sewickley Public Library
Saturday, November 21st
11:00 AM - 5:00 libraryPM
The Sewickley Public Library wants you to know just how special you are so we're dedicating a day just to our patrons!
 
Here's a list of some of the things you'll be able to do: grab some fresh kettle corn from the tent out front, enter to win a raffle prize in the Children's Department, record your favorite library memory in the Teen Department, and have an anniversary party for the library in the Children's Department. Gather up your friends and Family and head on over!
 
In partnership with Sewickley Community Center Food Pantry, the library will take 25¢ off of your fines for every non-perishable food item that you donate.  A maximum of $5 can be taken off each account. Fine reduction can only be taken off of fines for renewals or late returns, not billed items.

Shop Sewickley Village First

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THINK SEWICKLEY VILLAGE. THINK LOCAL.
                                                                                
The new Sewickley Village First program--which is coming soon--will make it easy to choose Sewickley Village businesses, first! The program will soon be available to help promote Sewickley Village, and to encourage residents and visitors to enjoy the wonderful businesses Sewickley Village has to offer.
 
One of the first services offered through Sewickley Village First will be an online Sewickley Village Business Directory. The directory also provides an opportunity for indidvidual business owners to enhance their directory listing with an advanced wepage, through which they can offer coupons, discounts, information about special events and products/services, and more! 
  
Sewickley Village First is part of an innovative new regional program called Downtown First, which is designed to promote and support the wonderful downtown business districts in our area. Downtown First is a downtown business support and promotion program created by Town Center Associates.
 
Watch for more information about Sewickley Village First!

Downtown Properties.net

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Introducing TCA's New Business Recruitment Tool
 
Are you looking for a storefront to buy or lease for your business location?
 
Be sure to check out www.downtownproperties.net! Town Center Associate's innovative new business recruitment program includes this website, which is one hundred percent devoted to properties for sale or lease in your downtown's central business district, as well as other local business districts.
 
DowntownProperties.net features the vacant/available downtown properties in your business district complete with: 
  • Property Photos
  • Property Owner Contact Information
  • Address Information
  • The ability to add additional information to each listing, such as realtor contact information or details about the property
  • Features that enable you to email listings to interested parties, map listings, as well as print listings

More than just a website, the DowntownProperties.net program offers key benefits to the municipality. Benefits include having a central source of property contact information, and a readily available resource to attract new businesses-by marketing vacancies and available properties.
 
Additionally, TCA will provide property owners with a free, colorful DowntownProperties.net poster to put in their vacant or available storefront window to demonstrate that the building is available.
 
If you have a vacant or available downtown property that is not currently listed on the site, let us know. Just send an email to tca@towncenter.info, or call us at 412-577-7447 or 724-728-0500.

Sewickley Village E-Newsletter    
 
The Sewickley Village Newsletter, your quarterly downtown newsletter, has gone high-tech! This will enable us to send the information about our Village revitalization efforts to a greater number of people and to reduce the amount of paper that was used to create the print newsletters--a win for the community and the environment!    
 
To receive your copy of the e-newsletter via email, simply send an email to tca@towncenter.info and indicate your email address. You can also call Town Center Associates to sign up to receive the e-newsletters at 724-728-9400.      
 
Please use the "Forward this E-Newsletter" link on the left menu to forward this email along to your friends, colleagues, family and neighbors...and encourage them to sign up today! This will help to inform (and involve) more citizens about the efforts taking place in our Village.
This e-newsletter was created by Town Center Associates (TCA) for Sewickley Village, as one of the many services TCA has been contracted to provide. For more information, please visit: www.towncenter.info.