Downtown Banners receive help from Greenville Schools

Mrs. Cleary’s Senior Career Art class displays the four fall banner designs. Stephanie Schieltz, Brooke Sturgell, Chelsi Brown, and Jessica Bowers created the chosen artwork.

Beginning in the spring of 2009, Main Street Greenville started a Banner Replacement Program. This program allows for a new seasonal banner each year to grace the light poles along Broadway. While last year the generic spring banners were substituted for creative and abstract artwork designed by the Greenville’s 8^th grade art class, this year brings change to the worn fall banners. Enlisting the talents of the Greenville Senior High Career Art Class was a genius idea from the Main Street Greenville Design Committee and Superintendent Susie Riegle.

Senior Career Art teacher, Mrs. Cleary, engaged her sixteen-student class in this project at the beginning of the school year. Within two weeks the students critiqued their work and four designs were picked. With the help of local printing company, Express It, the 56 banners were completed just in time to fly in the cool crisp air fall affords. So when traveling through downtown Greenville on your way to school, work, or shopping trip take a look at what welcomes you into the community and evokes pride. Not only do they shout "FALL" they also exude creativity.

“Using our local resources, and at the same time encouraging and cultivating these young artists was a goal for the committee,” states Amber Schmerge, director of Main Street Greenville. “We are very pleased with the results and extend an invitation to the community to help fund this project.” The Fall Banners have received partial funding from Darke Rural Electric Cooperative and Brethren Retirement Community. The committee is accepting donations as reasonable as $40 from individuals and businesses. If interested in making a tax-deductible donation, please call Main Street Greenville at 548-4998 or send your donation to Main Street Greenville, 537 S. Broadway, Suite 203, Greenville, OH 45331.

Main Street Greenville is in independent non-profit organization committed to stimulating and supporting revitalization efforts, historic preservation and economic growth in Historic Downtown Greenville.

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Pizza Party for great Volunteers

Mike Henderson, Becky Dynes and Deanna, Cassidy and Brayden York enjoying the pizza

Julie Kessen, Lelah and Eric Shoop

Jackie and Tom Soper

Darke Co. Democratic women

Yesterday we took out all the flowers in the flower boxes downtown. We know they still looked great, but soon the frost will come and the flowers will be turning.

The weather was great and the volunteers come out to help. All clean up was finished in an hour!

Thanks again to this year's adopt a box participants and the volunteer watering crews: Lelah Shoop, Christie Randall, Tom and Jackie Soper, Mike Henderson, Holly Finnarn, Austin Spencer, Brian Griesdorn, Amber Schmerge, City of Greenville Street Department, Gina and Alyssa Miller, Lauren and Chad Henry, Donna Gasper, Susie Riegle and Jon McGreevey. These volunteers each watered once a month to ensure the flowers stayed as beautiful as the day they were planted.

Special thanks to Spencer Landscaping for use of their watering van during the season and Fresh Air Farms for donating the soil for the boxes and flower pots.

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Holiday Open House 2010 Schedule

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Lion’s Club Halloween Parade, A 40 Year Old Tradition

The Greenville Lion’s Club Halloween Parade from the 1990’s.

The streets of downtown Greenville will be full of ghostly characters and haunted tales on Thursday, October 28 for the Lion’s Club Halloween Parade and Beggars’ Night on Broadway. This Halloween tradition begins at 7pm with the parade of dressed up children, teenagers and adults.

The Greenville’s Lion’s Club has organized the Halloween parade for forty years. This event promotes a safe, family fun night on Broadway. The parade route begins at West Fifth Street to Broadway north to the City Municipal Building where judging will take place and prizes awarded.

If interested in being part of the parade, it is as easy as lining up at West Fifth Street at 6:30pm on October 28. The parade has categories for Tiny Tots Girls ages 0-6, Tiny Tots Boys ages 0-6, Masked Girls ages 6-10, Masked Boys ages 6-10, Masked Girls and Boys ages 11-16, Best Adult Costumed and Best Masked Group. Bring out the creativity and have fun at this festive night out.

Motor units are welcomed in the parade as well. Please contact Nancy McClurg at 670-0301 to enter your unit. As always, no political campaign signs will be permitted.

Beggar’s Night, presented by Main Street Greenville, is a fun, safe event for children ages 4-12 to celebrate Halloween. Downtown businesses line up on the sidewalk along Broadway after the Halloween Parade to hand little beggars’ treats of all kinds. In addition to begging for candy, a haunted house, activity stations and a luminary display of pumpkins at the circle are all set for the event.

For more information contact Main Street Greenville at 548-4998.

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Main Street Greenville Joins Retail Is Detail

Pam Spitler of Pamela's Apparel with consultants Chris Boring and Deb Miller. The Retail Is Detail consultants meet with each business, provide a report with action plans and follow up with the business throughout the twenty three week mentoring service

Heritage Ohio, a statewide preservation and revitalization non-profit organization, is pleased to announce Main Street Greenville as a participant in the Retail is Detail technical assistance program.

Heritage Ohio is the recipient of a $99,000 USDA: Rural Business Enterprise Grant. The grant will be used to bring the Retail is Detail program to Cambridge, Defiance, Greenville, Norwalk, Port Clinton, Portsmouth, Van Wert and Wilmington. Participating businesses in downtown Greenville include: Sweet One O One, Michael’s Fine Clocks & Jewelry, Granny’s Corner, Pamela’s Apparel and Montage Café.

Deb Miller of Blue Pencil and Chris Boring of Boulevard Strategies are partnering with Heritage Ohio to bring their retail expertise to downtown businesses located in eight Main Street communities. Miller and Boring will work hand and hand with five businesses owners within the Main Street Program boundaries providing technical assistance. They will be addressing business issues including marketing, window displays, floor layout, e-commerce, operations, façade and signage, parking landscaping, merchandising, inventory, lighting, pricing, and customer service.

Heritage Ohio helps people to save the places that matter; build community and live better. Formed in 2000, Heritage Ohio has more than 500 members ranging from individuals and households to organizations and local governments. In 2002, Heritage Ohio was designated as the statewide partner of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Learn more at www.heritageohio.org.

Heritage Ohio has received support from the Ohio Department of Development’s Office of Housing and Community Partnerships, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and many Ohio based companies.

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Downtown Chili Cook Off

Chili Cook-Off participants Carol Haworth of Sweet One O One, Kevin Saintignon of Danny's Place, Shelly Lynn of The Little Italian Cafe, Michele Cox of Montage Cafe, and Chili Cook-Off organizer, Hala Knapke of Youniques

The 2010 Downtown Chili Cook Off Winner is Danny's Place! Kevin Saintignon, owner of Danny's Place, was excited to receive the honor and the traveling trophy again. Four years ago, Danny's Place won the title to only give it up the next three years. Well, the trophy is back on the bar mantel where it will stay for at least a year.

Last year's winner, The Bistro Off Broadway's expectations of bringing the trophy home again were unfulfilled with their spicy chili. This marks the 6th year for the cook-off but the first to hold it with the Downtown Buckeye Bash and allow for people's choice when selecting the winning chili. The combination of beer and chili was a real crowd pleaser.

Check out the traveling trophy and sample a bowl of the winning chili at Danny's Place for lunch or supper seven days a week.

Participating restaurants in this year's contest included: The Bistro Off Broadway, Double M Diner, Sweet One O One, Montage Cafe, Danny's Place and The Little Italian Cafe. The Chili Cook-Off is presented by Main Street Greenville

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