Painesville, OH

Taste of Painesville
5pm to 10pm, September 4th
Downtown Painesville

Come experience the largest end-of-summer block party in Lake County. Main Street will be rockin' this Thursday for The 9th Annual Taste of Painesville.

Free Parking - Free Admission - Free Music

Jam to live music from The Castaways as you sample delicious food from a dozen local restaurants. Painesville Community Improvement Corporation will be selling beer and other beverages. There will also be a corn hole tournament with cash prizes. Details below.

RESTAURANTS
Flavors on the Square
Roberto's Restaurant
The Storm Cellar Sports Bar
Bistro 70
Rider's Inn 1812
El Señor's Taquería
Chester's Legacy Tavern
Jimmy's Restaurant
Your Vine or Mine Wine Bistro
Wojtila's Puritan Bakery
Java Express
Pap's Kettle Korn

CORN HOLE TOURNAMENT

Team Names must be entered at Registration. Registration begins at 5 pm near the band stage. Teams consist of 2 players, cost $20 per team or $30 the day of the event. Single Elimination, Cash Prize for 1st and 2nd Place. For pre-registration call Kathleen Roberti or Cathy Bieterman at 440-392-5795.

http://www.downtownpainesville.org/

Find local treasures, shop for great finds and seek out amazing bargains at Painesville's annual community garage sale!

Christine Howlett of Howard Hanna Smythe Cramer (http://www.christinehowlett.com) and Jan Urbanick of Artful Hands Studio (http://www.artfulhands.com) are co-chairing the Great Community Garage Sale in Painesville, Ohio on Saturday, June 21, 2008. This event will be held from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, and is sponsored by the Downtown Painesville Organization (http://www.downtownpainesville.org).

Participation in the garage sale is open to residents of the 44077 zip code, or employees of city/county government offices, employees/owners of city businesses, Painesville school system, churches, and civic and youth groups. Sale locations may be at residences, or tables may be set up in the parking lot of Job and Family Services, located at 177 Main Street in downtown Painesville. Shoppers from all over the area are invited to come and shop!

For information, please call Chris at 440-812-4001, or Jan at 440-392-2787.

Registration forms and instructions are available at Artful Hands, 170 Main Street, or online at www.DowntownPainesville.org.

The Painesville City Local School District recently announced the proposed opening of one of its new schools as a "choice" school with an optional year-round calendar. Painesville Schools is currently undergoing a complete transformation with the construction of six new school buildings to be completed by 2009. The opening of these new schools creates opportunities for the district to change and improve the way things have been done in the past. Maple Elementary, chosen as the pilot school for this program, will open in late August 2008 and follow the traditional calendar the first year. Parents and staff will work through the year to develop the year-round calendar for full implementation in the 2009-2010 school year. Maple School was chosen as the pilot school because of its central location within the district. Enrollment boundaries will be removed and district parents can request their child be enrolled in Maple Elementary to experience the advantages of following a year-round school calendar.

Some of these advantages are:

- Increased student achievement
- Improved attendance, attitude and behavior
- Expanded opportunities for remediation and enrichment
- Reduced time reviewing subject material
- Minimized learning loss associated with typical three-month summer vacation

If there is not enough interest to fill enrollment in the choice school, all three elementary schools will follow the same traditional calendar year with traditional geographic enrollment boundaries.