Best Hometown Celebration Information

Event: Best Hometown Celebration
Event Date: November 20, 2009
Time: 5:30-6:00 pm
Location: Senior Center Plaza, 227 Xenia Avenue , Yellow Springs 45387
What: Shopping, Dining and Entertainment
Contact: Karen Wintrow, Yellow Springs Chamber of Commerce; 937.767.2686

The entire community is invited to the Best Hometown Celebration this Friday to celebrate our designation by Ohio Magazine as one of Ohio ’s Best Hometown’s for 2010.

Festivities kick off at 5:30 with Melissa Heston and a local dance troupe performing their Mellow Yellow Dance, created especially for the occasion.

That will be followed by two songs from the 2003 production, “The Peculiarly Salubrious, Singular and Curious, Mildly Outrageous and Sometimes Lugubrious History of a Natural Spring and the Town That Grew Up Around It” thanks to the Louise Smith and cast of the original production.

Responses to the question “Why is Yellow Springs the Best Hometown” will be read by local children followed by words from local officials and the award presentation from Rich Osborne, Publisher and Editor of Ohio Magazine. You can even buy your own copy of the magazine with Yellow Springs on the cover.

To determine the honorees, Ohio Magazine solicited nominations and conducted site visits across the state. The editors evaluated the nominees in six categories — Community Spirit, Education, Entertainment, Health and Safety, Business Environment and Culture and Heritage — to help finalize their selections.

So join us for this joyous occasion at the Senior Center Plaza at 227 Xenia Ave. in the heart of Yellow Springs and enjoy hot cider and cookies after. Then at 6, the 3rd Friday Fling starts with free carriage rides, late night holiday shopping at many of our shops, gallery openings at “would you, could you” In A Frame and The Art Space and much more. Call the Chamber office at 767.2686 for more information.