Tasteful Tents
Booth registration open for Taste of UA
Registration is open for vendors and sponsors that wish to participate in this year’s Taste of Upper Arlington.
The Taste of UA is scheduled for 3:30-8:30 p.m. Aug. 7 at Northam Park, 2070 Northam Rd., and routinely attracts more than 8,000 attendees.
Sponsorships are available at the $3,000, $1,500 and $500 levels. Booths start at $100 for an untented member booth.
The Chamber also sponsors the UA Community MarketPlace, a citywide garage sale and business market, scheduled for May 3. For more information on either event, visit www.uachamber.org.
Give a Seat, Take a Seat
UA Rotary donates funds for kitchen chairs
More families in need will be pulling up seats around their kitchen tables because of the Upper Arlington Rotary Club.
Upper Arlington Rotary donated $3,000 to the Furniture Bank of Central Ohio in April for the organization to build chairs to accompany the tables it already produces.
The furniture bank, which provides free furniture to central Ohio families and individuals struggling with poverty and other life challenges, takes donations of gently used furniture from individuals and organizations and fixes items if necessary. Volunteers also assemble donated furniture kits and build kitchen tables and dressers from donated particle board from Sauder Woodworking Co.
This is the third time Upper Arlington Rotary has supported the furniture bank, and club members also regularly volunteer to build tables at the bank’s workshop.
Pat Camp, furniture bank senior development officer, accepted the check from Rotary Club member Sandy Clary.
Parade Prep
Plans proceeding for Independence Day festivities
The Upper Arlington Civic Association named Bill Richards grand marshal for the 4th of July parade. Richards is a retired UA teacher, a U.S. Navy veteran and director emeritus of Honor Flight Columbus. He taught for 28 years at Hastings Middle School and Wickliffe and Barrington elementary schools.
The theme of this year’s parade is “You Are a Grand Old Flag.” The parade begins at 9 a.m. on July 4 after the day kicks off with the civic association’s traditional wake-up calls. Sign-ups for wake-up calls begin June 1.
Party in the Park, a community celebration featuring entertainment and seating for the fireworks, begins at 5:30 p.m. Ten-seat tables are available for $125 for UACA members or $150 for non-UACA members and are available for reservation beginning June 1.
Visit www.uaca.org for the latest on the Independence Day festivities.
