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downtown youngstown is the central meeting point of the Cleveland-Youngstown-Pittsburgh region, home to 7.5 million people strong.
In Youngstown, we are fluent in both Pittsburghese AND Clevelandish.
We eat Primantis AND Paninis.
We follow Penguins' hockey AND Cavaliers' basketball.
We drink Iron City AND Great Lakes.
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Youngstown is not just a place for the 700,000 people of the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys to enjoy, but our restaurants and traditions are available for all 7.5 million of yous/yinz.
and so, the Shout Youngstown blog is going to pick out a few choice events taking place this weekend in the next nexus of downtown youngstown - if by chance you are looking for something to do.
friday - Cle+Yo+Pitt Regional Learning Network conference - discuss best practices and approaches to neighborhood development, urban design, economic development, and blogging in the mega-region (10am - 4pm at the Club)
saturday - Soap Box Derby down 5th avenue (9am)
saturday - Youngstown Tree Day Celebration, including a demonstration of the i-tree urban inventory system by the Youngstown City Forester, Wick Park at Park and Pennsylvania Ave (9:30am)
saturday - Wick Park Revitalization Community Meeting #2 at Park Vista off 5th avenue (10am)
saturday - city pools open, party at North Side's new pool (12pm)
saturday - furthermind all-day music festival at the B&O train station and urban camping (12pm to 2am)
sunday - yoga at fellows riverside gardens (9am, 12pm)
sunday - tour of western reserve wildflowers at fellows riverside gardens (2pm)
monday - presentation by the director of the federal NSF (yes, that $6 billion agency) at YSU's engineering building. must rsvp with jmsmith (at) ybi (dot) org. more info here.
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“We’re trying, as I like to say, to further everyone’s mind,” he said, “I want to bridge the gap and have Cleveland bands and Pittsburgh bands — make the Youngstown area a little bit bigger.”more from valley24 here.
This will be the first Furthermind Festival since 1999 and the first one for the Youngstown area. Though its focus will be mainly on the music, it will also serve as loving tribute to Quillan’s father, David Michael Murphy.
Quillan said his father became ill shortly after Vexfest IV in August and worsened in the coming months.
“One side of his body was shutting down, he couldn’t move his leg,” Quillan said, “In October, he needed a cane to walk and then he fell and broke his hip. He was in the hospital from October to December, when he passed away.”
While his father was in the hospital, Quillan said he wanted to have a giant celebration for when got better.
Having his father’s favorite local bands in mind, such as headliner Pennsylvania rock band Fourth River, Quillan began preparing for the event in November.
With his father’s death from the rare and highly fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a degenerative brain disorder, Quillan said this would be the event his father would want to go to.
“It’s a festival in honor of him and his love of independent music,” he said, “I’m Irish, so I think of this as a wake for him.”
1 comment:
Iron City? Try East End Brewing or Penn Brewery. Perhaps then the Burgh approaches the beer class of Great Lakes :)
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