Hometown HoliDazzle

WOW!!!!  Thanks for coming out and enjoying our signature event!!  What a day!!!!

Coming November 30!

Main Street Wilmington invites you to join in the dazzling fun and lights of the 2013 HOMETOWN HOLIDAZZLE PARADE AND FESTIVAL ~ Saturday following Thanksgiving, November 30, 2013.  Visit our charming shops and street merchants for holiday treasures. Smell delicious food and hot chocolate as they fill the air and listen to strolling carolers as they sing your favorite holiday song. Visit with Santa and let the lighted parade take you back to being a child again. Let the people of Wilmington and Clinton County, Ohio DAZZLE you this Holiday Season! For details, visit HOMETOWN HOLIDAZZLE.COM.



Photos by Jim Gumley

Downtown Trick-or-Treat

Over 500 Trick-or-treaters and their families braved the wind and cold this past Saturday to be treated by our downtown merchants!   Wow, that's a lot of candy!!  Remember, city-wide Trick-or-Treat in Wilmington will be October 31, 6PM - 8PM.

Saturday   October 26   1:00PM - 3:00PM

Dress up and head into Downtown Wilmington for a day of TREATS to be handed out by our local merchants!

Maps and bags will be available under the marquee of the Murphy Theatre starting at 1:00.

Participating businesses will have purple and orange balloons displayed.

We look forward to seeing you downtown on October 26!!!

Wilmington Chocolate Walk

Thanks to everyone who came out and enjoyed all the "sweetness" downtown has to offer! Let's do it again next year!

Friday, October 18

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Click HERE for more information and online tickets!

Honoring Our Military Everyday

Thanks to everyone who took this day to honor our military.

And to our military, thank you for taking every day to serve our country.

 

AUGUST 31

 

We are proud to partner with Jennifer Andorfer in Honoring Our Military Everyday.  Here's a message from Jen...

As a community, let's take time to step back, take stock and appreciate the deep freedoms we enjoy every day. Freedoms that have been fought for and protected by our veterans and our military currently serving. "Honoring Our Military Everyday" August 31st, in beautiful, downtown Wilmington. 

"Honoring Our Military Everyday" event is August 31, at the Mural Parking lot. We will have organizations that extend benefits to our Veterans, The Lima Memorial "Eyes Of Freedom", Live music from "Kelly Red and the Hammerheads", Family fun, Food and the first 300 veterans get a free t-shirt! Bring a vet... bring your family! This promises to be a great evening!! Please consider sharing this flyer on your newsfeed...Thanks

"EYES OF FREEDOM" LIMA MEMORIAL..This traveling memorial delivered to you by R+L Carriers depicts the fallen of Lima Company 3/25, one of the hardest hit units in Operation Iraqi Freedom. These 23 life-size portraits have become a remembran...ce of spirit honoring all those who answered the call to service, in every branch of our armed forces. These Eyes reflect the thousands who have served, fought, and paid the ultimate sacrifice defending Freedom. The Lima Memorial will be escorted into Wilmington by The Legion Riders, the Wilmington Police Dept and our Sheriff Dept.

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Party at the Mural!!!

Wow, what an evening!  Maybe our BIGGEST crowd ever!!!
Thanks to all who attended!
August 16

Featuring

Bulletproof at 7:00 pm.

 

Ready for another Party at the Mural? Join us Friday, August 16th for food, fun and great music from the band Bulletproof. They will be providing the pop/country/southern rock so you can dance the night away. Vendors will be there with food, drinks and beer starting at 6:00 pm and the band starts rockin' at 7:00 pm.

  Plus

Jeep Jam
Show and Shine
starts at 6:00 pm
on Mulberry Street

ALL BREEDS OF JEEPS ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND THIS SHOW AND SHINE!

 

(This will be similar to our Cruise-Ins but with Jeeps only.
There will be no classic car cruise-in this Friday.)

 

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Wilmington Wine Walk

What a blast!  Thanks to everyone who attended and
made this event... umm... unforgettable!
Let's do it again next year!

MAY 17

6 - 9 pm

Purchase your tickets by April 29 and
receive a 2013 commemorative wine glass!

Go to WilmingtonWineWalk.com for more information and to purchase your tickets!

 

Bond Night

April 12

 

James Bond – Agent 007 – suave, sophisticated, and sexy, has made 23 thrilling action-packed spy movies that have grossed over $5 billion at the box office worldwide.  The movies were based on many spy novels by English author Ian Fleming, and were created by film producer Albert Broccoli. The movies continue to be produced today by Broccoli’s heirs, enthralling audiences for the past 50 years.

Charismatic, handsome-lady-killer-looks, famous one-liners, amazing sports cars, and exciting gadgetry, Bond films boast them all. And to commemorate this much admired British Secret Agent, Wilmington Operatives have organized an evening of Bond, James Bond!

The evening takes place on Friday April 12, 2013 at two of Wilmington’s

NOW SHOWING!

Check out all the great shows and events at
THE MURPHY THEATRE!!!

SAVE THE DATE! The Clinton County Spring Farmers' Market returns Saturday, March 2nd!! The Spring Market will meet back in our summer location at the Mural Lot, 81 W. Main Street. We will be open on the first and third Saturdays in March, April, and May from 9am - Noon!! Stay tuned for more information! We look forward to seeing you back at the Market! For more information, contact us at dessie@clintoncountyfarmersmarket.com

It's Christmas Time in the City!

Thanks to Art Fabian for this view inside our wonderful downtown Court House!  Click on the photo to enlarge.

Ron's Barber Shop To Open!

Longtime barber and Wilmington resident Ron Young will open a barber shop next Monday, Nov. 19 at 124 S. South St. in downtown Wilmington.

News Journal photo/Gary Huffenberger On Monday, Ron Young (left) will open Ron’s Barber Shop in downtown Wilmington at 124 S. South St. Joining him for the announcement photograph were Main Street Wilmington Director Steve Brown (center) and friend and former customer William “Bud” McConnell (right) of Wilmington. 

Longtime barber and Wilmington resident Ron Young will open a barber shop next Monday, Nov. 19 at 124 S. South St. in downtown Wilmington.

“As a result of the encouragement of local people and former customers, I've decided to open a shop,” said Young.

He said he will offer $7 quality hair cuts at Ron’s Barber Shop.

A Wilmington resident since 1976, Young went to Moler Barber

Downtown Antiques Is Back!

Downtown Antiques is back in time for the holidays, with new treasures for shoppers.

 

Contributed photo These figurines are a few of the items available at Downtown Antiques, 38 N. South St. in downtown Wilmington.

Locally owned by Cliff and Charlotte Fahrer, Erma Bernard and Kat McKay, the shop offers a variety of items — from large antique furnishings to collectibles such as Hull pottery, Fostoria crystal, Fenton and slag glass.

Fostoria, a former Ohio company, shut its doors more than 20 years ago and is highly sought after by collectors.

In addition to home décor, the proprietors offer a potpourri of curiosities such as vintage clothing, historic tools, jewelry and much more.

“There’s really something for everyone,” said Charlotte

Downtown Trick or Treat

oooooo... It was a cold but that didn't keep this community from getting out there and enjoying the day! Thanks to all who came down... and to those businesses who handed out treats with a ghoulish smile!

October 27   1:00PM - 3:00PM

Dress up and head into Downtown Wilmington for a day of TREATS handed out by our local merchants!

Bags and maps may be picked up at the Murphy Theatre, Wilmington Public Library or For A Song & A Story . Businesses offering treats will have purple and orange balloons displayed. (In case you're wondering... there will be no other children activities downtown that day.)

We look forward to seeing you downtown on October 27!!!

Saturday, October 13

2:00 - 4:00

"Cache a Ghost" at the Court House 

This Halloween event is free and will involve about 2 miles of walking on sidewalks in HAUNTED downtown Wilmington, Ohio. It will start at 2:00 pm and end at the starting point. Prizes include SWAG from Garmin and other prizes donated by local businesses. Free parking is available.

The playing area will be about a six by six city block area, with the starting point near the center. The coords for each of the caches will be on cards at the starting point. You will draw a card for your starting coord so you will not all be starting at the same cache. Each cache will then have the coords for the next cache as well as directions to a supply of Halloween SWAG. One cache may have all spider rings, the next may have all pumpkins, etc. The final cache will have coords to the first cache so it is a circuit. Prizes will be awarded in order as you return to the starting point with your score card filled and the complete collection of SWAG. Join us at Jen’s Deli afterwards.

For more info, visit Cache a Ghost on Geocaching.com.

4:00 - 6:00

Meet & Greet at The Crave

Meet Willy Wonka and you can take pictures with him at The Crave from 4 - 6 pm.

6:00 - 7:00

Dinner, Games & Activities

Willy, the Golden Ticket Winners and their guests, will be having dinner at Jen's Deli in the "Inventing Room" from 6 - 7 pm.

Everyone else is invited to participate in games and activities at several locations on Main Street.

At 7:00 pm, the theatre doors will open into the Chocolate and Candy Garden for movie goers. Prizes will be awarded before the movie and another Golden Ticket Winner will be announced.

7:30

Movie at the Murphy Theatre

National Bank and Trust Presents:

Strange Brew

In co-operation with "The Crave Candy & Nuts"

Promoted as a family musical by Paramount Pictures, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is more of a black comedy, perversely faithful to the spirit of Roald Dahl's original book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Enigmatic candy manufacturer Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) stages a contest by hiding five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. Whoever comes up with these tickets will win a free tour of the Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of candy. Four of the five winning children are insufferable brats: the fifth is a likeable young lad named Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum), who takes the tour in the company of his equally amiable grandfather (Jack Albertson). In the course of the tour, Willy Wonka punishes the four nastier children in various diabolical methods -- one kid is inflated and covered with blueberry dye, another ends up as a principal ingredient of the chocolate, and so on -- because these kids have violated the ethics of Wonka's factory. In the end, only Charlie and his grandfather are left. Ostensibly set in England, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was lensed in Germany (as revealed by the film's final overhead shot). - fandango.com

Art at the Market

We welcome market sponsor, the South Street Gallery, and the Wilmington Community Arts Collaborative (WCAC) to the market on Saturday, September 29th, for the “Art at the Market” celebration!! Over 15 representatives from the WCAC and

Just a friendly reminder that the Clinton County Farmers' Market will only be meeting on Saturdays from 8:30 am - Noon for the rest of our season (until October 6th). We look forward to seeing you at our Saturday Markets and appreciate all of your support of the Farmers' Market! Locally yours, The Clinton County Farmers' Market

Thanks Alkermes!!!!

Many many thanks to Alkermes for such a terrific idea-day to help our community, and for taking on MSW's projects.

Elana Lamp, Shane Thiel, Todd Perry, Nathan Moore, Susan Colby, Shannon Kober, Geoff Ramsay, John Bibart 

What a terrific bunch of hard working employees!

The mulch job looks super and the five gardens that Elena and Shannon re-vamped are fabulous!  Everyone was careful and conscientious, and worked so well together.

What a HUGE difference you've made to our Historic Downtown!

Let's Cut the Ribbon!

The Little Red Hen Gifts will be celebrating the grand opening of its gift store in Downtown Wilmington on August 24th at 3pm. We hope you'll come up and join us in celebrating this unique new business that features a wonderful array of gifts produced by some of Clinton County's most creative artisans.

WHAT: Ribbon cutting to celebrate the grand opening of the Little Red Hen Gifts
WHEN: Friday August 24th @ 3pm
WHERE: 61 E. Main Street, Suite 5, Wilmington, OH (map)

More about the Little Red Hen Gifts:

The newest addition to Downtown Main Street is The Little Red Hen Gifts, LLC. Owned and operated by ten contributing artisans, the shop is an airy boutique with an eclectic mix of jewelry, baskets, tie dyed clothing, handbags and accessories, children’s bows, all natural soaps and locally grown lavender products to name a few.

Last Third Friday of the Year!

WOW!!!!
If you were there, you know how great this evening was!
For the rest of you...well... Funky G will return next year!
August 17  7PM - 11PM

Funky G and the Groove Machine

Funky G is a high-energy dance band from Dayton, Ohio playing

R&B, Funk, and Hip-Hop

Band Photography by Alex Sablan

Food & Beerverages available

FREE to all ages
Located in the Mural Parking Lot behind
the General Denver Hotel - Find it HERE

Band Photography by Alex Sablan

For more info, visit:
Funky's Website

Funky on Facebook

Video - Funky at The Greene

Video - Funky in Wilmington Last Year

Brown Bag Lunch Series

LAST ONE OF THE SUMMER
July 26
Stephen Gregory Trio
You won't want to miss it!
Bring your lunch and enjoy free entertainment!

At the Murphy Theatre

11:30AM - 1:00PM

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