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Who is the underwriter for the Shoe Festival on June 12th?
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Find out what Matters in Rochester...
Welcome to Rochester Main Street's weekly e-mail update. This newsletter contains information with downtown happenings and upcoming events.
If you are a business or non-profit in our community that would like to contribute to this weekly update, please contact Mike Provost at director@rochestermainstreet.org |  |
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Question of the Week Contest!
This week's question:
Who is the underwriter for the Shoe Festival on June 12th? |
| Find the answer to the weekly question in this newsletter! Simply email the correct answer to director@rochestermainstreet.org. A weekly winner will be drawn from all correct answers and will be qualified for our quarterly drawing. The quarterly drawing winner will receive new Rochester Main Street Gift Certificates, valued at $50. These certificates can be redeemed at participating Rochester businesses! Entries must be received no later than the Monday following the date of the Main Street Matters newsletter. Weekly winners will be announced in each subsequent Main Street Matters and the first quarterly winner will be drawn on Wednesday, June 30th.
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Congratulations to Julie Gagne! |
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Julie was the winner of last week's subject line question in the Main Street Matters email. She correctly answered that the Music For Giving Recital would be held at First Church Congregational. Her name will now be entered into a quarterly drawing for $50 in Rochester Gift Certificates! Don't miss out your chance to enter...just answer the question (answer found in the Main street Matters articles) and email us for a chance to win!
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| Rochester Recreation Community Meeting
Thursday, June 10th at 7pm |
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On Thursday, June 10th we will be hosting an open public forum at the Community Center at 7pm. This forum will be held in the Community Room and is open to anyone that would like to share their thoughts about the future of recreation facilities, services and programs. From this meeting we will begin to formulate a list of priorities to incorporate into the Master Plan. This is YOUR opportunity to be heard regarding the needs, desires and expectations for recreation in Rochester . Please try your best to attend and to let your friends, co-workers, family and neighbors know about this important meeting. We will also have the gymnasium open with rec staff to watch over your children so you can attend this important meeting.
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| Growing Up Franco-American (with no patent leather shoes!), Rochester Historical Society, June 10th at 7pm |
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On Thursday, June 10, at 7:00 PM Lorraine Masure will present "Growing Up Franco-American (with no patent leather shoes)" at the Rochester Historical Society on Hanson Street. A first-generation immigrant, Masure will describe what it was like for agrarian folk who bravely left their people and their homes in search of a more secure life. Their immersion into a different culture resulted in times of both struggle and joy. Masure will escort her audience through various settings of home, work, church, school, and town hall along the cultural nuances of her childhood that often resulted in an Old World upbringing that seems light years away - even to her today. "I think all seniors, especially those whose parents have a French heritage, will see themselves in my stories. And young people will be amazed at what life was like for us. It's informative, and now, as I look back, some of it's pretty funny, too," Masure said.
All are invited to attend. Admission is free and refreshments will follow the meeting. For more information, please call the Rochester Historical Society at 330-3099 or e-mail rochesterhistorical@metrocast.net.
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| Rochester Shoe Festival, Saturday June 12th 11am-3pm Downtown Rochester - VOLUNTEERS STILL NEEDED! |
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Event underwritten by Spaulding Composites, Inc.
10:00 AM- North Main, Wakefield and South Main Streets close for set-up
11:00 AM-5K Family Run/Walk by Rochester Recreation Department-Central Square Triangle
Prince Charming and Glass Slippers in Central Square by MetroCast
Ernest Whaley and Tom Hanlon, acoustic music in Factory Court until 1:00 pm
Shoe Fly Contest on Hanson Street until 12:30
Booths Open-Trackless Train, Bounce House, Facepainting
12:30 PM-Men's High Heel Race-Hanson Street-Holy Rosary Credit Union
1:00PM- Studio 109 Dance Performance at Central Square
Dan Walker Accoustic Music until 3:00pm-Factory Court
1:30 PM -Ugliest Sneaker Contest at Central Square-Bootleggers Footwear, Inc.
2:15PM- Giant Shoe Scramble-Hanson Street (child and adult fields)
3:00PM- Booths Close and Break Down, Streets open at 4:00pm
*Register for contests at Rochester Main Street Information Booth in Central Square
*Free parking in Congress Street, North Main Street, Union Street and City Hall Lots
*Restrooms located in Citizens Bank parking Lot off Wakefield Street
SPONSORS
Northeastern Nonwovens, Inc-Profile Bank-MetroCast-Holy Rosary Credit Union
Bootleggers Footwear-Waste Management of NH/ME |
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Thursday, June 10 - Rochester Historical Society, Growing Up Franco-American, 7:00pm
Saturday, June 12 - First Annual Shoe Festival, 5k Fun Run, downtown, 11:00 am to 3:00pm
Saturday, June 12 - First United Methodist Church Yard Sale, 8-2
Saturday, June 26 - Frisbie Summerfest, Staff Parking Lot, 8:00 am - 4:00pm
Saturday, July 17 - Cruisin' 60-Car Show, Rochester Historic Museum, 11:00 am -2:00pm, Hanson Street
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Citizen's Bank Underwriter for Main Street Concert Series |
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Promotion Committee Volunteers at Rochester Main Street are please to announce that word was received late last week that Citizen's Bank of NH has awarded a $1,000 grant to be used to initiate a series of summer concerts downtown in the new Factory Court. The series, called the Factory Court Brown Baggers Concerts, will take place on Friday noon times and feature local and traditional entertainers. Those attending are encouraged to buy or bring a lunch and a lawn chair and head downtown to enjoy the music and being outside in this new public space. Factory Court was completed late last year as a volunteer project in cooperation with the City of Rochester Community Development Block Grants, and additional funding through Federal Savings Bank. Design and construction work was donated by Viking Design, Wes Flierl, Salmon Falls Ironworks and Studley's Flower Gardens. Local artist Kathy Jackson then lead volunteers in a public arts project to create mosaics on the planters at the rear of the courtyard area. Factry Court has truly been a cooperative effort from start to finish in creating a new public space in the heart of downtown where residents and visitors may gather. The first concert is being scheduled for Friday, July 9 at 11:45 am
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| Join Bridging Gaps in wishing the Rochester Senior Class of 2010 a Safe and Drug Free Graduation |
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For ONLY $10 - local businesses, community groups and/or non-profits can participate in a full page ad in the Rochester Times to "Wish Graduating Seniors of Spaulding High School a Safe and Drug Free Graduation." Open to the first 21 groups to respond. You will receive a 3.75 inch x 2 inch rectangle for your company or group to send your wishes to graduating seniors. You can either design your own ad or send your logo and any other information you want in the space and we will design it for you. All designs MUST promote an alcohol & drug free message to seniors. The ad will appear in the June 17th edition of the Rochester Times. Submit designs to: Jennie Seyer O'Connell at joconnell@hscstrafford.org. PDF, EPS or jpeg preferred.
Send payment to Bridging the Gaps Coalition Attn: Jennie Seyer O'Connell, PO Box 321 Rochester, NH 03867. Make checks payable to: Health and Safety Council of Strafford County. All checks and ad designs MUST be received no later than Friday June 11th at 12 (NOON) Please include company/group name, address, a contact name and phone number/e-mail with your design & payment. For questions: please call Jennie at 330.7160
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| Rochester Economic Development Department/Rochester Main Street to Offer Businesses Welcome Bags |
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The Rochester Economic Development Office has purchased a quantity of re-usuable shopping bags with the downtown logo on them to use to hold information welcoming new businesses to downtown Rochester. This is a chance for local businesses to provide a "welcome coupon", dining establishments to offer sample menus, and local organizations to provide information on their services. The Main Street Program will be inserting their information brochure, annual report, annual events calendar and an invitation to attend the monthly Sidewalk Talks, held the second Tuesday of each month at locations throughout the downtown. There is no charge for this opportunity, and businesses wishing to take advantage of this should provide 100 items. Items may be dropped off at the Rochester Main Street Office at 18 South Main Street, Suite 2B or at the Rochester Community Development Office located in the Community Center on Wakefield Street,
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Barbara Wold's Consumer Tips For June! Why Tourists Shop? |
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1. A stress-free time to shop. The beneficiaries are central business districts, Main Street communities,
historic areas, stores in or near hotels, malls and lifestyle centers, stores near convention centers, museum
stores and airport shops.
2. Price and value -- tourists may feel they are getting a better deal than they would at home.
3. A gift or an obligation.
4. Extending the travel experience -- they shop to remember the destination or trip.
5. Planned purchase -- tourists budget for souvenirs, especially families with children.
6. A time to shop with family and friends -- sometimes they are encouraged to treat themselves and buy more.
7. Unique and interesting merchandise with impulse appeal.
8. Appealing environment -- attractive shopping destination, good retail mix and great food.
Get in on the tourist trade by merchandising your tourist-targeted offerings with the traveler in mind. Make them
easy to spot, attractively displayed and nicely priced -- an irresistible little something as a remembrance from their
visit or a gift for the folks back home.
Let the tourist know your services through signage, such as complimentary gift wrap, special orders and UPS or
Fed-X shipping. Verbally let the traveler know they don't have to squeeze the item into their suitcase, it can be
shipped and on their doorstep when they return home -- this may encourage them to buy a larger or fragile item.
Today's definite trend in tourism is that extended and multi-generational families are increasingly traveling
together and are bringing the little ones along.
Small-town destinations and attractions are of particular interest to this growing market.
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