Downtown West Orange Alliance

COME TO THE 8TH ANNUAL SPRING STREET FAIR ON SUNDAY, MAY 27th!

CLICK HERE TO SEE A SLIDE SHOW OF THE 2009 SPRING STREET FAIR!

On Sunday, May 27th, the Downtown West Orange Alliance will hold its 8th Annual Street Fair. This fun-filled day will feature more than 100 artists, crafters, and vendors. Fabulous food, live music, and entertainment for children and adults will be available all day. Last year, we were thrilled to receive lots of praise and compliments like, "This is the way West Orange USED to be!!" And, "I've lived here 70 years and have never seen anything like this!" For seven years now this successful event has drawn between ten and twelve thousand people to Main Street.Click here to download (1) free coupon for a moonwalk or game. If you would like to be a vendor click here to download a vendor application.

3rd Annual Downtown Music Festival and Taste of Downtown.

Bring your beach blanket and chair down to Colgate Park at the corners of Cherry Street and Franklin Avenue on Friday, June 29th at 6:30pm for the 3rd Annual Downtown Music Festival and Taste of Downtown .

Downtown West Orange restaurants will be showing off their delicious dishes at the Taste of Downtown Food Court. No admission fee, buy tastes of the various foods while enjoying the sounds of great Doo Wop bands throughout the event.

Reminisce- New Jersey's #1 Oldies Show Band
Frankie Canta and the Drea Makers
Back-in-Tyme

Hosted by NJ Doo Wop's DJ Nick at Nite

For information, call the WO Recreation Department at 973-325-4150 or the Downtown West Orange Alliance office at 973-325-4109. Click here to download an event flyer.

Farmers Market Returns to West Orange on Friday, June 29th!

Come down to the Farmers Market and check out the great fresh produce that our 2 farmers are selling along with the delicious snacks & foods offered by our other vendors. Click here to download a flyer with a list of all the vendors!

The Farmers Market will run every Friday from 12pm-6pm in the parking lot behind Town Hall, 66 Main Street, from June 29through October 26th.

Click here to view new Farmers Market video!!!

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26th

HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN PAINTING!

Join us on Friday, October 26th from 3-5pm at the West Orange Farmers Market for the annual Pumpkin Painting Festival. Parents can shop while their kids decorate a free pumpkin with squeeze paints, markers and stickers. The Halloween Good Witch will also be there to entertain the kids!! Click here to dowload a flyer!

MAYOR'S 5K RUN / WALK to BREAK THE SILENCE OF OVARIAN CANCER

Sunday, October 16th

West Orange Township Hall

9:30 am Kids Fun Run, 10 am Run/Walk

www.walkforovariancancer.com

September is National Ovarian Cancer month. Are you an Ovarian Cancer survivor or do you know someone who has battled ovarian cancer?

Click here to download a registration form or to register on-line!

We have incorporated a new element to the run this year that we hope will expand participation of the medical community. It is called the "Top Doc" award. An award will be given to the doctor that comes in first across the finish line. Also, we have a new level of sponsorship...it is called the "The Teal Pledge".. For $100 a lawn sign will be posted along the race route that says "Dr. X is helping Break the Silence on Ovarian Cancer". Click here to download a sponsorship form. If you are up to the challenge and want to show your colleagues once and for all who is faster, accept our "Top Doc" challenge and compete against other medical doctors in this year's Mayor's Run/Walk to Break the Silence on Ovarian Cancer.

There are many ways you can consider joining us. You can work with us pre-run, or on day of run. There are volunteer jobs that can be done from your home.

Click here to volunteer!

Make a Donation and help shout about the disease that whispers!

Click here to make an 0n-line donation!

Your participation, donation or sponsorship makes a huge difference and is greatly appreciated. With your support, we can reach many more women and families who need to receive our information.

Ovarian Cancer... It Whispers, So Listen!

Three quarters of the approximately 20,000 women annually diagnosed with ovarian cancer succumb to the disease. Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women and the leading cause of death among gynecological cancers. When ovarian cancer is detected in its early stage, 94% of women will survive longer than 5 years. Unfortunately, less than 20% of patients are diagnosed in the early stages; 80% will not be diagnosed until the cancer is at an advanced stage. The survival rate with late stage

500Runners and Walkers Pre-Registered for the 2011 Race

Ready, Set Go!!!!

Portion of profits will go to the Northern JerseyNational Ovarian Cancer Coalition

Click Here for the NOCC website

COME TO WEST ORANGE’S OLD FASHIONED CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING AND DOWNTOWN HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE!!

Join us on Friday evening November 30th on the front lawn of Town Hall for Mayor Parisi’s Old Fashioned ChristmasTree Lighting.

Sponsored by: West Orange Recreation Department

Tree Lighting Agenda at Town Hall

Hot Chocolate & Cookies – Compliments of Pal’s Cabin & Shop Rite

4:30-6:30pm Holiday Petting Zoo

5:00pm Season’s Greetings Mayor Robert D. Parisi

5:00pm Kwanzaa Booth Opens

5:10pm Musical Presentation

5:20pm Dance Performance

5:40pm Lighting of Christmas Tree

5:45pm Arrival of Santa

6:00pm Visit Santa in his workshop

For Updates Call the Weather Hotline 973-243-1115

Rain Date for the Tree Lighting only is Saturday, 12/3

Then…..On Saturday, December 1st come to Downtown West Orange to enjoy a day of festivities to celebrate the beginning of the winter holiday season.

Sponsored by: Downtown West Orange Alliance

Breakfast with Santa returns from 9-10:30am in Connor Hall, Our Lady of Lourdes Church. Sponsored by: Blessed Pope John XXIII Academy.
Enjoy the “Old Fashioned Dickens Carolers” singing all of your holiday favorites between 10 and 11am at the front of Our Lady of Lourdes Church located at 1 Eagle Rock Avenue.

After breakfast take your children for a "Reading in a Winter Wonderland" at the West Orange Library (46 Mt. Pleasant Avenue) at 11am.
From 12:30-2pm your children can make a holiday craft at the Valley Community Police Center located at 555 Valley Road.
Have your children's picture taken with Santa at Supreme Bakery (40 Main Street) from 2-4pm.
Learn about the history of the different areas of Downtown West Orange from the Mayor and Council members during the Trolley Tours leaving every half hour from 12-4pm in front of the Community House at 242 Main Street.