#LocalEvents

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Want to meet new people and build great relationships? Check out fun and engaging speed dating near me that are happening near you, listed on Eventbrite! Status-seekers or friendship-fondlers alike, our events mixed between relaxed and exciting create a wonderful environment for connection among like-minded individuals. Peruse the curated upcoming events list, reserve your spot, and enjoy a jolly fun experience of wild conversation and chemistry on that day. Find your perfect match—take a look at the Speed Dating events in your area at www.eventbrite.com

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🗞️ Monthly Update: Timnath Chamber of Commerce Monthly Newsletter – June 2025 http://dlvr.it/TLMpbT See what’s new 👇

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📚 The Emu Springs Library is hosting its annual "Bring Your Strangest Find" evening next Friday! Last year we had a fossilized drop bear tooth and a teacup that hums ABBA. What oddity will YOU bring this year?

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Where will You be this Earth Day?

For those who are local to South Florida - save the Date - April 22nd at 5 PM - Poets on the Fringe will be having its Spring Poetry / Spoken Word reading and Community Open Mic at the Boca Raton main Library. It's a free event. Come to listen, or come to share. Opem mic sign-up begins at 5PM. Scan the QR code or go to https://bocalibrary.libcal.com/event/13335328 to register.

Copies of Anthology One will be available for purchase.

Directions to BRPL Main Library: https://maps.app.goo.gl/JQD9TtWZRPBiSdDo9

[thecalendork]

This weekend I'll be at the Sackville Geeky Market all day Saturday and Sunday 😉 Stop by to say hi and find some local geeky goods!

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Creating Community Connections Through Local Events

In 2025, building strong ties with your local community is more important than ever! 🌍 Hosting or participating in local events not only boosts your brand’s visibility but also fosters meaningful connections with your audience. 🤝✨

💡 How to make it work:

Collaborate locally 🤝 – Partner with local businesses and influencers.

Offer value 🎁 – Provide exclusive discounts or freebies at events.

Engage authentically 🗣️ – Focus on building relationships, not just sales.

Want to learn how local events can amplify your marketing strategy? Dive into the full guide: Creating Community Connections Through Local Events

✨ Strengthen your brand by connecting with the people who matter most—your community!

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DECEMBER 14th: Open House & Holiday Market!!!

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Horrors to Honors: The Mountain and Memorials of Emma Crawford

Consisting of three peaks in the San Juan Mountain range of western Colorado, Red Mountain is a sight to behold. Towering approximately 13,000 feet above the earth below, the rock here is rich with iron ore creating a natural color palette ranging from reds and yellow to occasional hues of purple. The mountains and the nearby mineral springs have been important destinations for centuries. The land was originally sacred to the Native American population who used the natural mineral spring water and saw the bubbling as the breath of the Great Spirit and when the town was founded in 1872 by General William Jackson Palmer and Dr. William Abraham Bell it was intended to be a health resort attracting all manner of people aiming to maintain (or gain) their health with the mineral waters, high altitudes, and clean, fresh mountain air. The mountains played an important role in thousands of lives and were cherished by many, but few claimed as deep of a connection with them as Emma.

Red Mountain as seen from  seen from Imogene Pass, San Juan Mountains of Colorado. Image via Wikimedia Commons user Adam Barhan https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Mountain_from_Imogene_Pass.jpg.

Emma Crawford was in her twenties when she moved from Massachusetts to the mountainous region of Colorado. Traveling with her was her mother, a music teacher and pianist that impressed the value of music on Emma at a very young age. By the time she was three years old she preferred listening to her mother playing the works of the old masters on piano to playing with toys and at the age of twelve she was playing in recitals while teaching lessons of her own. As a teenager she played the piano alongside renowned violin and cello players while absorbing the notes and melodies of Chopin, Wagner, and her favorite, Beethoven. When she was not playing piano she took up other instruments with the same stunning level of skill and she quickly became a master at violin, mandolin, cello, and viola.

Emma’s future in music seemed bright but the move nearly across the country was not to enhance her career as a musician, it was intended to heal her. Manitou Springs was founded as a health resort and by the time Emma and her mother started renting their two-story home she had already been suffering from what is suspected to have been tuberculosis for many years. Thousands of people came to the mountains for the springs and air that promised good health, and the Crawfords were among them, uprooting their lives hoping to extend them for many more years.

If music was Emma’s first love it was followed closely by her love of nature and Manitou Spring’s mountains may have seemed like a paradise. She was particularly fond of Red Mountain and claimed she had a spiritual guide, a Native American man “from the spirit world” that protected the family and also beckoned her to climb to the top of her beloved mountain. She of course fully intended on following through with this, but when she informed her mother, her friends, and her fiancé William Hildebrand of her plan they pleaded with her not to go through with it. She was in Manitou Springs because she was ill, the last thing she should be doing is climbing a mountain…but that did not stop her.

It was very late in the evening when Emma returned home and when her mother and Hildebrand asked where she had been she told them the truth. While her mother was teaching a piano lesson she saw her opportunity to sneak out undetected and she made her way to the mountain that called her name. It was difficult for anyone to believe she made it to the top but she insisted she did and that there was proof saying “I did so climb it…and I tied my scarf to a little pinon pine tree on the summit, and I have decided that I will be buried beneath that tree.”

The next day one of Emma’s friends climbed the peak and sure enough, they found her red scarf tied to the tree just as she said and her footprints were still visible marking her journey there and back. Her request to be buried on the mountain was not new, it was something she had stated previously to her family members and although it might have sounded like a morbid form of motivation for the climb, it was not something that came out of nowhere. Emma arrived in Manitou Springs seeking a cure for her illness, but she was having little success. She loved nature, being outdoors in the fresh air, and feeling the sunshine. This combined with the fact that she absolutely abhorred cemeteries made her decision seem obvious and unfortunately, it had to be carried out soon thereafter.

Emma Crawford. Image via http://www.emmacrawfordfestival.com/who-was-emma-crawford.html.

Emma Crawford died on December 4th 1891 at approximately 10:30pm and her obituary stated: “The few who knew her here remarked her calm, unruffled mood, and though her life was such that intimates were few, she was known by nearly all as a musician of rare power and skill.” The funeral services on December 8th were well attended by an eclectic group of people from many different parts of her life. Her mother performed multiple piano pieces of “peculiarly sweet melody and weird harmony” and the Reverend A. R. Kieffer of Grace Episcopal Church led the service, basing his remarks on a poem. Among the attendees were members of the Spiritualist Movement that the Crawford family took part in and one account of her funeral stated that everyone present to pay their respects were “intimate friends and votaries of the faith to which the deceased was an adherent.” When the services were over the next step would have obviously been committing the deceased to their eternal place of rest, but this was no simple task.

When Emma returned from climbing Red Mountain that day she made her wishes very clear. She tied a scarf to a tree and that is where she wanted to be buried, where she could forever remain surrounded by the natural wonder of her favorite place. Knowing this, and knowing Emma’s feelings on cemeteries, the next step was obvious to her fiancé and family. It was going to be difficult, but Emma was going up the mountain. Her casket was taken by hearse to Red Mountain and then twelve pallbearers worked in shifts, carrying it up the peak and to the top where she was finally laid to rest beneath her selected tree, covered by a layer of rocks.

This should have been the end to the story of Emma Crawford, a young woman who died too soon and was buried in her favorite spot due to feats of strength and the tenacity of her pallbearers. But, in 1912 an issue arose when construction to install a power station on the mountain put her final resting place squarely in the path of the work. Her body was exhumed and her remains were re-buried on another side of her beloved mountain. Unfortunately, this was still not the end for Emma. When the 2nd grave was dug it was done so haphazardly and her coffin was put inside covered with lose dirt, any and all rocks, and left with little thought given to the burial being “proper” or safe.

In August 1929 two boys playing on Red Mountain had the shock of their lives when they found a human skull sitting among the rocks. They went to the authorities who searched the area and found more bones and a metal handle. The boys were questioned about their findings but everything became clear when a metal nameplate was found etched with the familiar name “Emma L. Crawford.” She adored the mountain, it was her favorite place, but after she was buried the 2nd time the remains of Emma became a victim of her environment and after years of rain and erosion her coffin…and she herself…became dislodged and slid their way down the mountain.

By the time the pieces of Emma were discovered and gathered up there was no living family to come claim her remains that were moved to City Hall. It was there that they sat for over two years until one of her former pallbearers finally took responsibility for burying her for the third time. When it finally happened she was committed not to Red Mountain again, but to an unmarked grave in the nearby Crystal Valley Cemetery.

The pieces of Emma Crawford lay in rest for nearly seventy years before her name started to be a frequent topic of conversation yet again. The Chamber of Commerce of Manitou Springs were looking for ideas to boost tourism to their town and with a story as unusual as Emma’s they decided they needed to make her and her tale more well known. In 1995 the city launched their new event. Dedicated to Emma and set to take place every October, the event has grown enormously in popularity and people travel far and wide for their chance to take part and to purchase a newly designed commemorative t-shirt.

The event is Manitou Spring’s annual Emma Crawford Coffin Races.

Every year participants in this festival build their own highly decorated “coffin” carts, dress up in costumes, and gather at Manitou Avenue. When the time comes teams of 4-6 people (4-5 people pushing and pulling the coffin-cart with someone dressed as an Emma inside of it) race down the avenue and up a hill to victory. Groups are judged for different categories including Best Entourage, Best Coffin, Best “Emma,” and fastest time. The race, along with the festival and parade of hearses in the name of Emma Crawford has become one of the area’s most treasured Halloween traditions.

In 2004 Historic Manitou Springs, Inc. granted Emma a memorial “gravestone” placed on Red Mountain in the region where it is believed her final wish was initially honored. But, like her multiple burials, Emma also has multiple memorials and in 2023 another marker was placed to honor Emma on Manitou Avenue, the same stretch of road where thousands of people gather every year to honor her and her story with their handmade coffins.

Image of the Emma Crawford marker on Red Mountain. Image via Wikimedia Commons user ForgottenColorado https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emma_Crawford_Headstone_in_Crystal_Valley_Cemetery_in_Manitou_Springs.jpg

To see images and video from previous Emma Crawford Coffin Races please click here

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Sources

“Emma Crawford Coffin Races & Festival: Manitou Springs, Colorado.” Manitou Springs, October 24, 2024. https://manitousprings.org/emma-crawford-coffin-races/.

Hazel, Jess. “The Spirit of Manitou Springs Is Alive with the Emma Crawford Coffin Races.” Colorado Public Radio, October 27, 2023. https://www.cpr.org/2023/10/27/manitou-springs-emma-crawford-coffin-races/.

Washburn, Kim. “RIP: Rest in Peace Emma Crawford.” Springsmag Colorado Springs, October 31, 2023. https://springsmag.com/rip-rest-inpace-emma-crawford/.

“Who Was Emma Crawford?” Emma Crawford Coffin Races & Festival, n.d. http://www.emmacrawfordfestival.com/who-was-emma-crawford.html.

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🎉 Ready for the weekend? 🎉

Make the most of your days off by checking out local events! From live music to food festivals, there’s something for everyone nearby.

👉 Explore our guide to this weekend’s happenings and share your plans in the comments! Let’s make it unforgettable! 🎈✨

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Rev Up Your Engines and Bring Your Pups to the Mint Hill Car Show: Hot Rods on the Lawn! 🚗🐕

Are you a car enthusiast who loves spending time with your furry friends? Well, you're in for a treat! The Mint Hill Car Show, also known as "Hot Rods on the Lawn," is back, and it's not just about stunning cars and vintage vibes—this year, it's a dog-friendly event! 🐾

🏁 Event Details:

📅 Date: September 16, 2024 🕒 Time: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM 📍 Location: Mint Hill Veterans Memorial Park, Mint Hill, NC 🎟️ Tickets: Available on Eventbrite

Hosted at the beautiful Mint Hill Veterans Memorial Park, this event promises a day filled with classic cars, hot rods, and the sound of roaring engines. But it’s not just for car enthusiasts—it's also a fantastic outing for dog lovers!

🐕 Dog-Friendly Fun:

At Hot Rods on the Lawn, your four-legged companions are more than welcome to join in on the fun! Here’s what makes it perfect for both car and dog lovers:

Dog-Friendly Grounds: The lush lawns and spacious park provide ample room for your pups to roam, sniff, and enjoy the day by your side.

Doggie Amenities: Look out for water stations, shaded areas, and possibly even some pet-friendly vendors offering treats and goodies for your furry friends.

Socialize with Fellow Dog Owners: Meet other dog-loving car enthusiasts and swap stories about your favorite classic cars and your beloved pets!

🚗 More Than Just Cars:

While the spotlight will undoubtedly be on the impressive lineup of hot rods, muscle cars, and vintage classics, there's more to explore:

Live Music: Enjoy tunes from local bands that will keep the energy high and the atmosphere lively throughout the day.

Food Trucks and Vendors: Satisfy your cravings with delicious offerings from a variety of food trucks and vendors.

Community and Cause: Engage with the local community and support causes close to your heart. Events like this often help raise awareness and funds for local charities, making it a fun day out with a purpose.

🛠️ For Car Enthusiasts and Collectors:

If you’re passionate about automobiles, this event is a goldmine. Whether you’re there to admire the chrome, talk shop with fellow gearheads, or showcase your own pride and joy, the Mint Hill Car Show is an experience you won’t want to miss.

🗓️ Mark Your Calendar and Grab Your Tickets!

Bring your love for classic cars and your furry companions to the Mint Hill Car Show! It's a perfect day to soak in the beauty of vintage vehicles, enjoy good music, great food, and create unforgettable memories with your dogs. Don’t forget to grab your tickets early on Eventbrite, as this is sure to be a popular event!

See you at the show with your hot rods and hounds! 🚘🐶

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Party Venue Vibes: Exploring Rental Spaces Near Me

Planning a party or event can be an exciting but daunting task, especially when it comes to finding the perfect venue. Whether you're hosting a birthday bash, corporate event, or wedding reception, choosing the right rental space sets the tone for the entire celebration. In this guide, we'll explore the vibrant world of party venues near you, helping you discover the ideal space to bring your event vision to life.

Why Venue Selection Matters

The venue you choose can significantly impact the atmosphere and success of your event. From location and size to amenities and ambiance, each aspect of the venue contributes to the overall experience for you and your guests. By selecting a venue that aligns with your event's theme, budget, and logistical needs, you can create unforgettable memories for everyone involved.

Factors to Consider When Choosing a Party Venue

Before embarking on your search for the perfect party venue, consider the following factors to ensure you make the best decision:

. Location

The location of the venue is key, as it determines accessibility for your guests and sets the overall vibe of the event. Choose a venue that is convenient for attendees and aligns with the theme or style of your party.

. Capacity

Ensure the venue has adequate space to accommodate your guest list comfortably. Consider factors like seating arrangements, dance floor size, and room layout to determine if the venue can accommodate your needs.

. Amenities

Look for venues that offer amenities suited to your event requirements, such as audiovisual equipment, catering services, and parking facilities. These extras can enhance the overall experience for you and your guests.

. Ambiance

The ambiance of the venue plays a significant role in setting the mood for your event. Whether you prefer a modern loft space, a rustic barn, or an elegant ballroom, choose a venue that complements your event theme and style.

Exploring Rental Spaces Near Me

Now that you understand the importance of venue selection let's explore some popular rental spaces near you:

. Event Halls and Ballrooms

Event halls and ballrooms are versatile spaces ideal for hosting weddings, galas, and formal receptions. These venues often feature elegant décor, ample seating, and customizable layouts to suit your event needs.

. Outdoor Venues

Outdoor venues such as gardens, parks, and waterfront locations offer natural beauty and scenic backdrops for outdoor events. From intimate garden parties to large-scale outdoor weddings, these venues provide a picturesque setting for your celebration.

. Restaurants and Banquet Halls

Restaurants and banquet halls offer a convenient and all-inclusive option for hosting events. With built-in catering services, customizable menus, and professional staff, these venues make planning your event a breeze.

Discover Your Perfect Party Venue with jetsetvenue

Choosing the right party venue is essential for creating memorable experiences for you and your guests. From location and capacity to amenities and ambiance, consider all aspects of the venue to ensure it aligns with your event vision.

At jetsetvenue, we understand the importance of finding the perfect rental space for your event. That's why we offer a wide selection of premium venues suited to a variety of occasions. Whether you're planning a birthday party, corporate event, or wedding reception, we're here to help you discover the ideal venue to bring your vision to life. Contact us today to start exploring party venue vibes with jetsetvenue.

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Timnath Chamber of Commerce Monthly Newsletter – April 2025 http://dlvr.it/TK6vJv

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Byron Bay Soul Street New Year's Eve 2023

Sunday, 31 December 2023 | 04:00 PM Soul Street New Year’s Eve is back in 2023! This is a free, family-friendly, community New Year’s Eve event in central Byron Bay. There will be two main areas of entertainment in town: Jonson Street – live music on the sound stage, street dining and roving performers and children’s activities from 4pm to 9pm. Dening Park – lighting installations and…

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3rd Place Open Mic Night

Some of the poets, vocalists, comedians and storytellers from Thursday's 3rd Place #openmic in #bocaraton

A good variety last night. Support #localarts and #localmusic. This included members of Poets on the Fringe supporting the launch of Anthology One: