It was an amazing day in Rockville!

Pictures from Rockville Fest 2010

The Rockville Fest

Sept. 25, 2010

10 AM - 3 PM
(Rain date, Sunday Sept., 26  from 11 AM - 4 PM)

For directions, use 14 Park Place Vernon-Rockville, CT 06066

This is the address for Vernon's Town Hall, which is 
located in the center of historic Rockville, CT

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From Exit 67 on Route 84

Take exit 67 for CT-31 toward Rockville/ Coventry

Turn left onto East Main Street/Rte 74 the center of Rockville is .3 miles ahead.

For more information

Rockville Fest_- Crafters & Tag Sale Application

Rockville Fest Car Show Trophy Sponsorship Form (Closed for 2010)

Rockville Fest - Merchant Participation Form-Peter-Olson

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'

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In downtown Rockville there are table spaces available in the
Ladd & Hall Plaza

             TRI-TOWN TOWNWIDE TAG SALE

      WHEN:     Saturday, September 25, 2010
      WHERE:   Vernon, Ellington & Tolland
       TIME:        8:00-4:00 p.m.

downtown Rockville as part of the 
"Rockville Fest"

Pastries, cookies and someone will win a gift certificate for Antonio's!

(New England Championship Cup) 

2010-2011 season

Family Raceway

This weekend Saturday, September 25th Family Raceway is kicking off the NECC (New England Championship Cup) 2010-2011 season.  There will also be a car show in downtown Rockville (10am - 3pm)!  If you get a chance come on down and check out some AMAZING racing we open at 7am racing starts at 8:30am and finishes up approx 9:30pm!!!

• The new winter hours are up and are as follows...

• We are bringing back $10. All you can race night on Fridays.  Come on down with your friends and family we have the cars and controllers!!
• Thursdays as always are the IROC racing series Jr's start racing at 6:30pm

Family Raceway
20 East Main Street
Rockville, CT  06066
860 896-5333

MEET BRITTANY DECKER

MISS CONNECTICUT 2010  

BRITTANY DECKER - MISS CONNECTICUT 2010

Brittany Decker has wanted to be Miss America since she was a little girl who sang "Someday I'll be Miss America" at a talent show.   And now she stands ready to fulfill the goal.  Decker was crowned miss Connecticut at the Garde Arts Center in New London on June 26^th, winning over $6000 in scholarship funds.

It was the fourth time she made it to the state stage, but she believes that her recent trips to Haiti and Cambodia are what solidified her win.

Her community service platform is called “One World, Global Awareness for Global Prosperity”.  In October 2009 she traveled to Cambodia to create a documentary for her studies, and to volunteer in some of the poorest villages. She now sits on the board of directors for a medical clinic in a small village in Cambodia. As she was about to leave, she was given a statue as a gift and the statue had a crown. "It reminded me of the values of the crown, bringing the values of the crown to around the world," she said, and that's how her platform was born.

She also recently traveled to Haiti and volunteered at an orphanage there. Decker is creating awareness of third-world countries by bringing the message that we should appreciate and be "thankful for all we have here."

Decker, 21, is a senior mass-media communications major at Western New England College.  Decker has been on the dean’s list and president’s list, is an active member of several honor societies, and has received many academic honors. She recently received an Associated Press award for broadcasting and a first place award for television reporting at her college’s media competition. She recently was an intern at an NBC affiliate in Springfield, Mass., Channel 22.

 
Decker will represent the state of Connecticut at the Miss America Pageant on January 15th, 2011, where she will compete for thousands of dollars in scholarship money and the Miss America Crown.   

MEET LOGAN WEST

CONNECTICUT'S OUTSTANDING TEEN 2010

10 am - 12 noon

LOGAN WEST - CONNECTICUT'S OUTSTANDING TEEN 2010

When Logan West was a seventh-grader, she was verbally and physically abused by a classmate. Never wanting to see any other child go through what she had, Logan decided to take a stand and created a program to convince other students to not get involved in something that had taken hold of her life for six months.

While that was going on, Logan was still doing something she's loved since the age of three: dance. She has won many regional, national and international titles in both tap and lyrical including "National Center Stage Dancer of the Year" and "Art Stone Global Entertainer of the Year."

And in November 2009, all her creativity and drive merged when she saw an article in the newspaper that advertised the Southington Outstanding Teen Pageant. She won the pageant, and on Saturday June 26, 2010, won the title of Connecticut's Outstanding Teen over 16 other girls between the ages of 14 and 17. She will now represent the Nutmeg State at Miss America's Outstanding Teen Pageant in Orlando, Fla. in August.

Logan said it feels "amazing" to win the state pageant. She said she didn't realize "how big of a deal" the pageant was until after she was crowned Southington's Outstanding Teen. But, she says, she worked hard on her interview skills and practiced dancing even more. "It's nice to see the hard work pay off," she said.

"I've wanted to be Miss America ever since I was 4 years old and this is one step closer to my goal," she said.

Miss America's Outstanding Teen is a pageant for girls between 13 and 17 that is affiliated with Miss America, the largest scholarship organization for young women in the world. Miss America contestants must be 17 and seniors in high school, up to age 24. The Miss Connecticut Scholarship Corporation sponsors the Teen and Miss pageants.

During preliminary competitions on June 24 and 25 at the Garde Arts Center in New London, Logan received the lifestyle and fitness award and the talent award for her a cappella tap dance to "My Lucky Coin." She was announced as a Top Ten contestant at the finals competition and at the end of the night, received several awards: community service runner-up; overall teen interview, which carried a $100 scholarship; overall lifestyle and fitness, which carried a $100 scholarship, and overall talent, $100. She received a $1,000 scholarship as Connecticut's Outstanding Teen and stands to win even more at the national pageant.

Logan, 16, is an 11th grader at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, where she is a high honors student and is a dance major. Her professional goal is to dance with Alvin Ailey then own her own dance company.

Her issue of concern is "Bully Proof - Empowering Children Today to Prevent Bullying Tomorrow.” She created, designed and implemented her own oral presentation and web site, “stompingoutbullying.com.” Logan has spoken to more than 1,000 students on the negative effects of bullying and plans to share her program with students throughout Connecticut.

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

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

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

Gary Wooley - member
Motorcycle Club

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

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

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

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

Founded in Rockville, Conn. in 1959

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

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

West Main Street, Rockville, CT 06066

We thank them for their participation
and contribution to the 
"Rockville Fest"

139 Union Street, Rockville, CT
860-875-2523

The Tri-Town Cruzers
thank other participating 
Car Clubs and Associations
in their support of the
"Rockville Fest"

  
Ty-Rods Auto Club

RAM power!

The Rockville Community Alliance, wants to thank Peter Olson, Ladd & Hall Furniture's owner, for organizing the Rockville Area Merchants Sidewalk Sales for the "Rockville Fest"  in 2010.

Welcome to downtown Rockville and to the "Rockville Fest". Please allow us, the Rockville Area Merchants to welcome you into our establishments  this and everyday. We want to says thank-you to all of our longtime customers, friends and perhaps first-time visitors to our historic village, welcome!

Thank you!

Yours truly,

Peter Olson

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

(860) 875-2534

Rockville, CT

"Vernon's Victorian Village"

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.
  

The Tirebiter Band 

12 noon - 1:15 pm

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!

Family Entertainment

HISTORIC WALKING TOUR

Sponsored by the Rockville Downtown Association, Inc.

11 AM in front of RDA Office

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!!!

Food Specials

Supporting the Greater Rockville community
Below are various ways, the "Rockville Fest" is being utilized to
help those throughout our community and region.

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

“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.