GREAT NEWS for those of us who are tired of seeing cars parked all over the Main Street Mall. Center City Commission president Paul Morris, after receiving numerous complaints about the matter, checked into the CCC’s charter and discovered that the organization has the power to write parking tickets on the pedestrian mall. If a car is parked on the mall without a valid permit for loading and unloading, they’re breaking the law, and they’re going to start receiving tickets. It’s about time! Great job Paul!
Tonight is the “Third Thursday” block party on the Peabody Place block of the Main Street Mall. Many of the businesses will have food and drink specials and retail discounts. The Ghost Town Blues band and jazz/funk band Tempeh Four will be playing outside.
There’s also going to be a flash mob at the event… people are encouraged to bring water guns, and around 6:45, when Buster Poindexter’s “Hot Hot Hot” is played, a water gun fight will break out. Unarmed people are off limits, and the fight is over when the song ends.
The Bardog Tavern 5K is only 10 days away, Sunday, August 29. You can register online here, or you can register at Bardog or at either Breakaway Running location. If you’re not a runner, you can walk. If you don’t even want to walk, but want to donate (all funds raised will go to St. Jude), you can donate on the race registration website as well.
Funds donated through the site will count toward the Dunk Jen fund. Later in the day, Bardog Tavern will have its second birthday, and if $500 is raised for St. Jude to dunk Jen, she’ll get in the dunking booth in a bikini. The person who donates the most gets the first three attempts to dunk Jen. Jen is the organizer of the Monday night Salty Dog runners club that meets at Bardog at 7 PM.
There was an article in the CA this morning about the Peabody ducks serving as traveling ambassadors. About 20 times each year, the ducks visit schools, hospitals, and retirement homes, doing an extended version of their red-carpet march, with time to talk and answer questions.
Off to lunch… sorry for the lack of posts yesterday, just didn’t have anything.