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BROUGHT TO YOU
BY:
Beaver County
Community
Development Program
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YOUTH VOLUNTEERS
Our Featured Downtown Recognition Recipients
Congratulations to our Youth Volunteers: Fred Bowen, Jr., Alex Bowen, Mike Zirat, Jake Gagric, and Luke Thompson who work after school with the Monaca Volunteer Community Outreach (MVCO) to spruce up the downtown by planting flowers and perennials. These volunteers have also worked on graffiti removal, carpet removal, wall washing, painting and general clean up at the Monaca Community Center throughout the winter months. The Youth Volunteers will continue to serve Monaca by weeding, watering and maintaining the plantings throughout the summer months with the MVCO.
Please join the Monaca Business District Authority in thanking these volunteers for their efforts and hard work. Hats off to all of you for making Monaca look beautiful!
*If you would like to lend a hand or give a donation, please contact Patricia Majors at monacaoutreach@comcast.net.* |
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DOWNTOWN MONACA CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Memorial Day Parade and Service
Pennsylvania Avenue and Veterans' Memorial Park
May 27
10:30 AM
Magic Show with Steve Haberman
Riverfront (Pump House) Playground
June 9
2 PM
YMCA Summer Recreation Program
Washington Avenue Basketball Courts
June 17 - July 26
10 AM to 1 PM
3rd Annual Beaver County Boom!
Confluence of the Beaver and Ohio Rivers
June 29
9:45 PM
Monaca Community Day
John A. Antoline Memorial Park
June 30
12 to 8 PM
Fireworks 10 PM
Craft/Vendor Sale and Auction
John A. Antoline Memorial Park
July 6
12 to 8 PM
Pennsylvania Avenue and 14th Street
Ohio River Trail Council Gear & Beer Fallfest
The Lodge at Brady's Run Park
September 8
8 AM to 6 PM |
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WARMLY WELCOMING OUR NEW BUSINESSES
We are pleased to welcome our new businesses to our downtown and wish them the best on behalf of our community:
Doodlebugz
911 Pennsylvania Avenue, Monaca
Children's consignment clothing and toys.
Owner: Kenneth Vinyard
(724) 650-3894
Starr Styles
1107 Pennsylvania Avenue, Monaca
Hair stylist and salon
Owner: Amanda Starr
(724) 553-0071 |
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WORTH A LOOK
Mortgage Lending Solutions, located at 900 Pennsylvania Avenue, invested in beautifying their property with new plantings of shrubs and trees for a fabulous landscape that also reflects the caliber and quality of their services. Congratulations on your beautiful landscape!
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CHECK IT OUT
Check out the properties for sale and/or lease in downtown Monaca at www.downtownproperties.net to refer new businesses to Monaca. Click on Beaver County then select Monaca. Let's fill our downtown with the products and services we need and want! |
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CELEBRATE YOUR INDEPENDENTS!
Independents Week is a nationwide campaign focused on bringing together local independent businesses and community members in a celebration of the spirit of entrepreneurism and individuality represented by our independent businesses.
The week-long celebration is a chance to join with hundreds of other communities across the nation to celebrate the freedoms and opportunities independent businesses afford everyone.
Particularly during the first week of July, try to think of your downtown businesses first, and support them for the character, commitment and services that they provide to your community.
Check out Downtown Monaca First to access information relevant to your town's local downtown first program. For more information on Independents Week and to access a free library of activities and templates for your use, please visit http://www.amiba.net/buy-local-campaigns/seasonal-shop-local/independents-week.
If you'd like a copy of the Downtown First "Celebrate Your Independents" flier, just email Town Center Associates at tca@towncenter.info or call us at 724-728-9400. |
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GET CREATIVE WITH YOUR AVAILABLE STOREFRONTS!
Be a Part of the "the Little-e Economy"
Jenn Gooch's new studio, WERK, in downtown Lawrenceville is a compelling example of traditional tailoring services, and community courses (on sewing, of course)...all in one storefront. Read more about this creative means for bringing new life to a Lawrenceville storefront here.
Werk represents a community-based perspective for helping to restore our downtowns, the "little e-economy:"
"I left her shop feeling hopeful about the future of the people's economy. Not the big-E economy of the World Bank, Wall Street and headlines, but the little-e economy people make themselves by inventing jobs, bartering, playing by rules that they make and recruiting the support of others for mutual benefit.
It may be that the big-E economy is compelling this undercurrent, especially among the young, many of whom cannot find work in the fields they studied. It would be rewarding to see it swell regardless of whether the headlines become more positive. The economy of the little guy might be one way for the system to work for the many."
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DOWNTOWN MONACA E-NEWSLETTER
You are reading the Monaca FOCUS: your quarterly downtown e-newsletter. By using e-newsletters instead of print newsletters, we can send the information about our downtown revitalization efforts to a greater number of people and save paper--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, as well as the name of the town or towns for which you'd like to receive the e-newsletters. You can also call Town Center Associates to sign up at 724-728-9400.
Please also take a moment 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 revitalization efforts taking place in our downtown.
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This e-newsletter is brought to you by the Beaver County Community Development Program (CDP).
Town Center Associates (TCA) created this e-newsletter for CDP for your downtown, as one of the many services TCA has been contracted to provide to the downtowns in the Beaver County Main Street Network. For more information, please visit: www.beavercountymainstreets.com.
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