Community Corner
Get Ready to say Farewell to Summer
The new Emmaus event is coming on Sept. 10 and pre-registration for certain activities must be done by Aug. 27.
Editor's Note: This story has been revised to explain the role of Air Products in underwriting costs associated with an outdoor movie showing at the library.
Need a lift and break from discouraging news? Teri Madison of and Retail Committee Chair Donna Marks talked this past spring about exactly that - the need for people to have a break from the economy, unemployment, Afganisthan, the housing market.
Madison and Marks wanted a community day in Emmaus for people to totally forget about the world’s problems and enjoy themselves wholeheartedly. And, they’ve pulled together a fantastic event new to Emmaus: Farewell Summer Festival on Saturday, Sept. 10, starting at 10 a.m.
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The festival, which they wanted to be no cost or low cost because of the economy, should draw people to Emmaus for a day filled with children’s art activities, live music, horse and buggy rides, sidewalk sales, face painting, balloon artists, ducks in the fountain, and much, much more.
One of the coolest events of the festival is the liquid nitrogen ice cream stand, sponsored by Air Products. The ice cream mix freezes instantly with the injection of liquid nitrogen. Samples are free.
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The Air Products ice cream stand will be located at the Emmaus Library lawn area from 7 to 8 p.m. prior to the showing of the Disney Pixar movie, “UP.” will also have an ice cream stand during the movie.
An inflatable 20-by-30 foot screen owned by the City of Bethlehem will be installed on the library lawn for the movie showing. A generator is used to keep the screen inflated. The cost of the showing, including the equipment, the film and the technicians, is being underwritten by Air Products.
Highlights of the festival are hot dog and banana split eating contests. There’s also cookie and cupcake decorating, a BBQ rib cook off and an apple pie baking contest.
The hot eating and banana split eating contests, and the BBQ rib cook off and apple pie baking contests require pre-registration by August 27, either on the Emmaus Main Street Program’s website, emmausmainstreet.com or by picking up an application at The Creamery, , , or the .
A slow pitch softball game at the , Ridge and Williams Streets, is being sponsored by the borough at 6 p.m.
A full schedule of events at the Farewell Summer Festival is available on on the Emmaus Main Street Program’s Web site. Flyers can be found at most Main Street shops.