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Help with the Independence Day Celebrations!

Crozet Fireworks & Independence Day Celebration - 2014

From the Crozet Community Association:

They need your help for an hour or two on July 5. Below is the website to sign-up to help with the Crozet Independence Day Celebration (CIDC) next Saturday, July 5, between 5PM to 10PM. There are a variety of tasks and time slots. Most of the time slots are only an hour – so there’s lots of ways to help and still enjoy the event. When you sign-up it will ask for your name, email and, optionally phone number. No one else can see your email and phone. We promise we won’t share it. It’s helpful for us to have it if something happens and we need to let you know about a last minute change.

We urge church groups, civic and neighborhood associations to sign-up. Crozet Trails Crew already has volunteered to staff one spot the whole evening! Let’s see which group can have the most volunteers!

To sign up, go here.

With your help, we can make this Crozet Independence Day celebration the best ever!

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Crozet – Connect with your Nearby Neighborhoods with Nextdoor

Now’s a good time to remember to watch out for each other …

This is not an ad. But it is a suggestion about a way to connect neighborhoods.

If you haven’t used or heard of Nextdoor, it’s a site/service that is geo-fenced and is designed for communication with neighborhoods. But they also have a pretty neat feature called “nearby neighborhoods” that would be awfully useful for, say, reporting a peeping tom or an attempted break-in.

Nearby Neighborhoods is a feature that gives you the ability to have conversations with neighbors who live in nearby neighborhoods. Here are some great reasons to post to your nearby neighbors:
• To share information about suspicious activity that might affect several neighborhoods.
• To find a lost pet that may have wandered into an adjoining neighborhood.
• To rally neighbors from multiple neighborhoods to address civic issues.
• To spread the word about events like a local theatre production or neighborhood garage sale.
• To ask for advice or recommendations from the widest range of people in your community.

Please note: Self-promotional messages are inappropriate and may result in member suspension. The most important thing is to be sure that your post is truly relevant and useful to your nearby neighbors.

Really, consider signing up your neighborhood.

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Thanks for Adding Stuff to the Crozet Calendar!

Thanks to everyone who added these to the Crozet Calendar (in reverse order of submission because it’s easier for me):

– King Family Vineyards Polo (weekly)

– King Family Vineyards Spring Barbecue (18 May)

– Starr Hill Steal the Pint “happy hour” (Sundays in May)

– James Sun Memorial Run (17 May)

– Give4Good (6 May)

– Crozet 4th of July Parade, Celebration and Fireworks* (5 July)

– Crozet Arts and Crafts Festival (10 & 11 May)

– Crozet Art Show (31 May)

Add your own event here – it’s easy and I think the calendar looks much, much better with all the photos you’ve submitted!

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Harmony Place Workday – Crozet Cares Event

Harmony Place Workday

Saturday, April 5, 2014     8:00 till noon

Since the first workday in March, here’s what has been done:

  • Garden Path dug and partially filled with honey sand
  • Meditation Space, Horseshoe Pit,  and Fire Pit  dug
  • Messy brush, garden space and shed — gone

Can you help Saturday morning?  Lots of jobs, big and small.  Tabor’s outdoor space will be like no other recreational space in Crozet.

Crozet Trails Crew Work Day

Our next Crozet Trails Crew workday is Saturday, April 12th at Crozet Park. We will be continuing to clear understory brush along the Crozet Park Trail, in anticipation of the Dog Park. Meet near the lower playground at 9:00 am.

Crozet Lions Club 3rd Annual Pancake Dinner

The 3rd Annual Crozet Lions Club Fantastic Pancake Dinner will be held on Saturday evening April 5, from 5:00 till 7:30 PM. at the Field School, across the street from Crozet Elementary School.

Many of those who attended the dinner last year raved about the wonderful time they had. Not only did they enjoy the superb pancakes, great sausage, scrumptious apples, and variety of drinks. They were very impressed with entertainment and the large number of excellent prizes at the wonderful Raffle. The kids really enjoyed the fantastic jugglers. This year, the Raffle will be bigger and better than ever. The jugglers will be there, as well as other special entertainment.

The cost is $6.00 for adults and $3.00 for children under 12.

Raffle tickets are $1.00 or 6 for $5.00

All proceeds from the dinner will go to help treat and prevent visual and hearing difficulties in children and adults both locally and all over the world.

Over the years the Crozet Lions Club has engaged in many activities that have had an enormous impact on the Crozet community. In addition to contributing many hours of labor for the benefit of our community, they have donated over $10,000.00 a year to many local and national charities and organizations.

The proceeds from last year’s Pancake Dinner were combined with a grant from the Lions of Virginia Fund, and personal donations from members of the Crozet Club to contribute over $13,000.00 to the Crozet, Western Albemarle Library.

If you are interested in learning more about the various activities of the Crozet Lions Club, please go to their website:  www.clc.avenue.org

They welcome civic-minded citizens who are willing to donate time and effort toward making our community a better place in which to live.

4th Annual Crozet Swing Dance Fundraiser

Our annual fundraiser for Crozet Volunteer Fire Department (CVFD), Western Albemarle Rescue Squad (WARS), and books for Crozet Library (BCL) onSaturday, March 29, from 8:00 am to 11:00 pm at The Field School (1408 Crozet Avenue (across from Crozet Elementary).

Your help is needed to make this event a success.  If you are willing to help by bringing  “light refreshments”, such as homemade or purchased desserts or snacks, taking tickets or cleaning-up, please go to our “sign-up” webpage by clicking here.   OR contact me, Tim Tolson at[email protected] or give me a call.  Thanks for your help.  We truly can’t do it without you!

The band, Salute to Swing, a 16 piece big band from Albemarle, is back again, donating their time and talent to the cause.  Bring your friends and your slippery shoes to Crozet to dance the night away or just listen!

Admission is a $20 per person donation to either the Books for Crozet Library fund,Western Albemarle Rescue Squad (WARS) or the Crozet Volunteer Fire Department (CVFD).  100% of the admission dollars will go to these agencies.  Active duty fire and rescue personnel get in free!

A free swing dance lesson will be offered at 7:00 PM followed by three hours of music from 8:00 to 11:00 pm.
Raffles and Refreshments provided by local businesses and citizen bakers.