Festival of Cultures 2008

The Festival of Cultures that took place on April 5th was again a success with 700 people attending the event! Thank you to all the performers, vendors, staff, sponsors, and volunteers who helped to make our third annual Festival a success! Here are some pictures from the day of the event. Please be sure to check out our website to view more pictures of the Festival!

Festival Announcements!

We are very pleased to announce that Tim Kavanagh, host of Late Night Saturday, will be emceeing part of the Festival of Cultures, on Saturday, April 5th! Tim will be emceeing from 10:00am to 11:30am. Mayor Bob Kiss and John Tracy, Field Representative for US Senator Patrick Leahy, will also be saying a few words as part of the Festival's Opening Ceremonies at 10:40am.


Make sure to come hungry and be prepared to try some new foods! Food Vendors include: Hong's Chinese Dumplings, Samosaman Natural Foods, Euro Restaurant, Pakistani Foods, Ming's Nepalese Daal, Ahli Baba's Kabob Shop and Ducky's Blintzes!

Penny Fundraiser!!!

Feels like Spring outside today (we hope it is here to stay)! And we all know what that means - Spring Cleaning! Do those jars of pennies keep piling up in your closet, garage or basement? Do you have pennies scattered on the floor of your car, or hidden under the cushions of your couch? Don't know what to do with all of those pennies?!

Help the kids at Sara Holbrook Community Center (SHCC) and the King Street Youth Center (KSYC) raise a million pennies! A group of kids from each site are working collaboratively to raise a million pennies or $10,000 ($5,000 for each site).
The money raised will go directly to the children’s programs at both Centers!

On Saturday, April 5 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., during the Sara Holbrook Community Center’s 3rd annual Festival of Cultures, there will a drop-off site run by the kids to donate those pesky pennies!

The kids will have input as to where the money raised will go to…unfortunately, it probably won’t go toward a swimming pool in the back of the Sara Holbrook Community Center! Visit the SHCC blog in the next couple days to see a video about what the kids want to do with the money.