Rockville Rocks! Sept. 25, 2010 | The Rockville Fest

Looking for artisans, vendors, crafters, car owners & merchants :: see info below.

click here for pictures of Tri-Town Cruzers Friday, August 6, 2010 CT Golf Land

For more information
Car owners	TriTownPaul@Cruzers.us Tri-Town Cruzers Paul Sutkaitis - 860/872-3799
Rockville Area Merchants	Peter Olson Ladd & Hall Furniture 20 East Main St. 860/875-2534
Party Plan Vendors Artisans & Crafter Vendors Commercial Vendors Business Opportunities Political campaigns	Booths@RockvilleCT.com Tom DiDio - 860/646-5320
Car Show Trophy Sponsorships	Sandi@RockvilleCT.com Russ's Rock 'n Roll Diner 13 West Main St. Sandi - 860/871-6099
Entertainers, Attractions General Information	Bryan@RockvilleCT.com Bryan Flint - 860/875-1044
Forms & applications Trophy Sponsorship Form Merchant Participation Form-Peter-Olson

Tri-Town Cruzers The Tri-Town Cruzers Car Club is a group of car enthusiasts who support local charitable organizations with both financial and non-financial donations while providing social gatherings for fellow car enthusiasts. Their car shows and cruises attract the proud owners of finely restored and enhanced antique and performance automobiles as well as those owning 'works in progress'	Car Show	10 AM - 3 PM
Gallery 46	Arts & Crafts Show in Central Park	10 AM - 3 PM
Sponsored by Rockville Community Alliance, Vernon Parks & Recreation Dept. and co-sponsored by the Vernon Arts Commission	Entertainment	10 AM - 3 PM

Home Party Plan Representatives Avon^©, The Pampered Chef ^© , Tastefully Simple^© and more!		10 AM - 3 PM
Tolland County Chamber of Commerce	Tolland County Chamber of Commerce Tag Sale Ladd & Hall Parking Lot	10 AM - 3 PM
Sidewalk Sale! downtown merchants	Rockville-area merchants	10 AM - 3 PM
Rockville Downtown Association, Inc.	Historic Walking Tour Led by Bob Hurd	11 AM

Tri-Town Cruzers - Car Show
Trophy Sponsors

Russ’s Time Rock & Roll Diner

Russ Johndrow & Sandi Lachapelle - Owners
13 West Main Street, Rockville, CT 06066
860/871-6099

Rockville Bank

Gene Skladnowski - Vice President
25 Park Street, Rockville, CT 06066

Dowding, Moriarty & Dimock, Inc. Insurance

Established 1922
Dick Finance - Jon McPartland
139 Union Street, Rockville, CT 06066
860/875-2523

Murdercycles MC

Gary Wooley - member
Motorcycle Club

TKBS

TKBS - 1 Vernon Ave., Rockville, CT 06066
Ron Ramsdell - President
860/875-9513

Elm Motors

114 East Main Street, Rockville, CT 06066
Brette Lesniak - Owner
860/871-1617

Martin B. Burke - Attorney At Law

130 Union Street, Rockville, CT 06066
860/875-7775

Stephen Marcham Memorial Trophy

Beacon Prescriptions

40 West Main Street, Rockville, CT 06066
John Comeau - Pharmacist
860/875-9263

Ty-Rods Auto Club

Founded in Rockville, Conn. in 1959

Antonio's Italian Pizzeria

33-35 West Main Street, Rockville, CT 06066
Gino & Joanne Izzo - Owners
860/871-0272

Ladd & Hall Furniture

20 East Main Street - Rockville, CT 06066
Peter Olson - Owner
860/875-2534

Olde Rockville Tavern

West Main Street, Rockville, CT 06066

To Rockville Area Merchants …

The Rockville Fest should be a well attended event. Each time one of these downtown happenings occur, Rockville benefits. It’s an opportunity for us, as downtown merchants, to show our best, and in doing so potentially increase our customer base. If your business lends itself to a “Sidewalk Sale,” please consider setting up one in front of your store. If not, try to do something special within your establishment for walk-in traffic on this day. Let’s make all visitors to our village feel welcome!

Thank you

Peter Olson

The Ladd & Hall Co., Inc.
20 East Main St. Rockville, CT

(860) 875-2534

Trophy Sponsorships

We have a limited number of trophy sponsorships to be awarded to owners of show vehicles in several classes. These trophy plaques will feature the event, date and your business/organization name prominently engraved upon it. As a trophy sponsor you will be featured on websites and press releases recapping the event.

Yes. We would like to sponsor a trophy plaque for nominal fee of $50.

Note: Trophy sponsorship commitment must be received by Friday, September 3^rd.

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Please make checks payable to RCA and mail to:
Rockville Community Alliance
Attn: Jim Sendrak
34 Snipsic Street
Vernon-Rockville, CT 06066

Ross Novgrad
10 am - 11 am

Sponsored by:
Dowding, Moriarty & Dimock, Inc.
&
Farm Car Care

Ross Novgrad grew up in Rockville and is a Graduate of Rockville High School. After graduation, Novgrad attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. Always wanting to be part of the "Big Apple", Novgrad moved to NYC where he completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance from the Manhattan School of Music.

He spent the next 10 years as a Free Lance artist in New York, performing at Carnegie Hall, the Blue Note, Seventh Avenue South with Wedding Bands at the Plaza Hotel, the Waldorf Astoria, the Helmsley Plaza. The agency he worked with also send Novgrad to play in North Miami Beach, Florida for a convention.

Also, Novgrad did 5 contracts working in the show band for several different Cruise Lines, traveling and performing around the World. Ross played on 2 Big Band CD's with the Tom Pierson Orchestra working with some of the top Studio and Broadway Show musicians.

Novgrad also worked extensively in New York's Latin Music Scene, performing with Paquito D'Rivera's Big Band, Daniel Ponce and Afro Cuban Legend, Mario Bauza. Also, toured the Dominican Republic with a Meringue group.

Furthermore, Novgrad toured Nationally with Chilean Singer, Lucho Munoz, playing in San Francisco, LA at the Hollywood Palladium, Houston, Miami, Washington, DC and Boston.

After 12 years in NYC, Novgrad decided to return to his roots and moved back to the Hartford, CT area where he started the Ross Novgrad Trio and began freelancing in the area with the New England Jazz Ensemble, the New England Jazz Septet and started doing show work.

Novgrad currently leads his own Latin Jazz Quintet, Jazz Duo/Trio, Klezmer Duo, Dixieland group and Wedding band.

Recently, Novgrad's Latin Jazz Quintet performed at First Night Hartford 2010 at the Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford as well as Enfield's 4th of July Celebration 2010 and in July at the Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz 2010.

Ross currently lives in Rockville and is a supporter of the Rockville Festival 2010.

Red No.5

11 am - 12 noon

Red No.5 has lent their voices to reinvigorate and diversify Connecticut’s local music scene. While each woman in the quartet resonates as an individual, the four voices fuse together to create an eclectic, original sound. Traveling far and wide to share their love of music, they are not only local favorites at Manchester's Main Pub, but have also been invited to sing at events such as the Block Island Music Festival, SingStrong in Reston, Virginia, and the 2008 Harmony Sweepstakes National Finals in California. They are proud to have used their unconventional understanding of music to develop a new system of musical notation incorporating traditional hieroglyphics, cave drawings, and Braille.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTWG7doW3Xk

Towering Days 1:30 pm – 2 pm

Towering Days is a melodic indie band from northern CT. Their songs contain traces of folk harmonies, dynamicuses of rhythm and song structure, and multiple layers of vocal and instrumental melodies. Their debut full length album entitled "Last Light in the House" is now on sale at shows or online on itunes and amazon.com. "Real light fingers on the keys, vibrant almost angelic soul touching. I'm loving the shadows of Bluegrass & Banjo throughout the album. A most unique sound, definitely in a class of its own. The Rain Had Passed has a signature sound and its the best song on the disc." -The Venue News

Posters and CDs available for purchase!

HISTORIC WALKING TOUR

Sponsored by the Rockville Downtown Association, Inc.

11 AM in front of Town Hall

Bob Hurd, architect and well-known local historian, will conduct a Walking Tour through historic Downtown Rockville as part of the “Rockville Fest” on Sept 25, 2010. He will bring the history of Rockville alive throughout the tour which will begin at 11 AM, in front of Vernon’s stately Victorian Town Hall. Please wear comfortable footwear and bring your cameras and a notepad. The Historic Walking Tour is sponsored by the Rockville Downtown Association, Inc, (RDA) a Main Street community.

The tour will focus on the Talcott Park Neighborhood just north of Town Hall in the area of Elm Street, Park Street, and one block of Prospect Street surrounding a small city park. The houses represent a variety of Victorian architectural styles ranging from early nineteenth century Greek Revival through the Gothic and Italianate styles down to the high Victorian eclecticism of the 1880's and 1890's. Here on narrow city lots adjacent to the downtown, the mill owners chose to build their stately homes. The neighborhood still retains a remnant of its late nineteenth century elegance.

Mr. Hurd, a resident of Rockville, has served as President of the Vernon Historical Society, Chairman of the Town of Vernon Historic Properties Commission and as a member of the RDA's Design Committee.

The houses which you listed are all covered on the tour.

to see map, click here

5. Rockville High School (1892) and East School (1870).

6. James I. Regan House (1860), 60 Prospect St.

7. Phineas Talcott Homestead (1846), 68-70 Prospect St.

8. Arthur T. Bissell House (1880), 74 Prospect St.

9. George Sykes House (1893), 76 Prospect St.

10. Charles Phelps House (1905),1 Ellington Ave. Architect: Hartwell, Richardson & Driver, Boston, MA

11. #10 and #12 Ellington Ave. (both 1885), Architect: Palliser, Palliser & Co., Bridgeport, CT.

12. Francis T. Maxwell House (1904) Gardens facing Ellington Ave. Architect: Charles A. Platt, New York City.

13. Caleb Tefft House (1848), 60 Elm Street.

14. David Sykes House (1901), 37 Elm Street.

15. Elbridge K Leonard House (1892), 30-32 Elm Street. Architect: J. Henry McCray, Rockville, CT

SPECIAL ROCKVILLE FEST DEALS!!!!

Christopher Prue
Independent Consultant for the Pampered Chef
860-462-3247
cprue21486@hotmail.com
www.pamperedchef.biz/chrisprue

Are you interested in having a debt free holiday season this year? Are you looking for a stress free part time job without the hassle of having a boss looking over your shoulder? Or perhaps you are looking for something fun to pass the time? Come see my booth at Rockville Rocks on September 25th for some more information on the Pampered Chef!

Are you under the assumption that Pampered Chef is expensive? As a matter of fact, there are over 300 products in our catalog, 60% of which is $20 and under, and our items are built to last. As a special thank you gift for stopping by, you can be entered for a chance to win a gift from me to you of $25 off of a future Pampered Chef order. So stop on by September 25th and see what we are all about!!!

Tri-Town Cruzers
raise funds to support the
Matthew Gauruder Memorial Scholarship

The Tri-Town Cruzers have a long history of helping out in the community. Throughout the years, they have supported many good causes and encourage their members and guests to help wherever and whenever possible in giving back to their communities.

Throughout the 2010 cruise season, the Tri-Town Cruzers will be donating a portion of our proceeds to the following charities:

· Channel 3 Kids Camp

· Kid Safe

· Cornerstone Foundation - Shelter

· Protector of Animals

The Club leadership also gives an extra driver's ticket to driver's who donate an item of clothing for our Disabled Vets OR donating a canned food item for the food pantry.

The Rockville Fest is the largest annual special event the Tri-Town Cruzers are associated with and the proceeds from car owner donations and sponsors are designated to the Matthew Gauruder Memorial Scholarship.

Matthew Gauruder, a 17-year-old Rockville High School student was playing football at a post-prom party on a Westerly, Rhode Island, beach in 2001. Running backward to catch a pass, Gauruder fell into a hole dug by friends. As his stunned buddies tried to walk towards him, the hole caved in. He was revived briefly before later dying at a local hospital. His mother, Mavis Gauruder, said she grew up playing on New England beaches and never could have anticipated what happened to her son. The Gauruder family were members of the Tri-Town Cruzers at the time of the tragedy and their fellow members, decided to dedicate the proceeds from their participation at the Rockville Fest, each year toward the scholarship fund in Matthew’s memory.

The Tri-Town Cruzers thank fellow car owners, sponsors and spectators for their participation and fund-raising efforts at the Rockville Fest. It is with great honor that they are able to support the “Matthew Gauruder Memorial Scholarship Fund” which gives three, (3) $2,000 scholarships each year to graduating Rockville High School Seniors.

“IMPROVING OUR TOWN, TOGETHER!”
The mission of the “Rockville Community Alliance” is to improve and preserve the greater Rockville area of Vernon through the cooperative efforts of residents, the Town of Vernon, and other stake holders, including but not limited to: businesses, property owners, religious organizations, cultural services, and non-profit organizations.

A Partnership between the Vernon Police Department and the volunteers of the greater Rockville community.

Entertainment sponsors
The Vernon Arts Commission We thank them for their participation and contribution to the "Rockville Fest"
The Ross Novgrad Duo	Dowding, Moriarty & Dimock, Inc Insurance Agency Est. 1922 139 Union Street, Rockville, CT 860-875-2523
Farm Car Care 11 Windermere Ave. Rockville, CT 860/875-3370

10 am - 11 am	Ross Novgrad duo
11 am - 12 noon	Red No5
12 noon - 1:15 pm	The Tirebiter Band
1:30 pm – 2 pm	Towering Days