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| | Our photo of the week was captured by Great American Downtown board member, Representative Latha Mangipudi, and features volunteers from the SEWA International Boston service group chatting up a Tree Streets resident over the weekend, who expressed gratitude to the group for their role in beautifying their neighborhood! Thanks to the volunteer group for coming out on Sunday to do trail clean up, and complete an expanded garden beds project at our Gate City Community Gardens site! Do you have some great pictures of our vibrant Downtown you’d like to show off? Post them to our Facebook page, or send them to us by email! We love to share images that capture the beauty and excitement of Downtown Nashua. | | |
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| | PLAY BALL! Nashua Silver Knights invites you to join the fun Kids! Play ball with the team! There is still time to register for Week 3 of Silver Knights Baseball Camp! Camp is held 9 amâ1 pm, August 10â14. Girls and boys ages 6â12 are invited for a week full of hitting, throwing, catching and fun! $225 for the week. Want the best view at Holman Stadium and the most socially distanced seats available? Consider one of the luxury suites for your next visit to the ballpark! The luxury suites are climate-controlled, private seating boxes with available catering options. Call 603-718-8883 or email [email protected] to book today! Silver Knights on NESN! The Futures Collegiate Baseball League announced last week that all six teams will be featured on the New England Sports Network (NESN)! The Silver Knights will be on NESN at 1 pm Saturday, August 15 against the North Shore Navigators. Read the full press release here. To purchase tickets to this historic game or any other regular season games, visit the online ticketing system. Pre-purchasing tickets guarantees that you can see a game of your choice and allows you to skip the line at the ticket office on game day! | | |
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| | GRAB YOUR DANCINâ SHOES AND JOIN US! Friday, August 14, 7â10 pm We’re thrilled to see such an immediate interest in this event â at press time, our limited-attendance 150 tickets were already 2/3 spoken for! Grab yours now, so you can join us! Since 2016, families, friends and neighbors have gathered to dance the warm summer night away, through the city of Nashuaâs Dancinâ events. This summer, the City of Nashua, in partnership with Great American Downtown are planning for two events, in August and September. The event series, Dancinâ In The Park, will take place along the Nashua Riverfront in Renaissance Park. Join us outside by the river, for hot music and cold ice cream (available for purchase from Hazy Ice Cream truck). First, enjoy a dance lesson with instructor Theo Martinez, who will teach us Latin dance styles. Then, our guest musicians will heat up the night with two 45-minute sets: Aug. 14: Latin Beantown Social Club Friday from 6:30â10 pm at Renaissance Park on Water Street, in Downtown Nashua. SEPTEMBER EVENT TBA These events are free but ticketed, to limit the number of people in attendance to 150, to ensure enough room to allow for participants to maintain physical distancing. Mask wearing will be required of all those in attendance, aside from performers. This event, and the event health and safety plan have been developed in partnership with the Nashua Dept. of Public Health to ensure proper measures are in place for a healthy, safe, and fun night of music and dance! Please be aware that we continue to monitor the conditions of COVID-19 spread in Nashua and NH, and in the event that conditions change this event may be cancelled at the recommendation of Public Health. RESERVE TICKETS BELOW! | | |
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| | AUGUST IS NH EAT LOCAL MONTH! | | |
| | NH Eat Local Month! We hope you’re enjoying August â NH Eat Local Month â and supporting our hard-working local farmers, restaurants and other food purveyors. Here at Great American Downtown, we #eatlocal as much as possible! Check out our Eat Local page here, for our favorite ways. Each week of August in The Downtowner, we’ll publish a a new blog about the local food purveyors participating in our Nashua Farmers Market. We’re happy to shine a spotlight on our neighbors â farmers, bakers, and food producers who are all committed to providing the best locally sourced items available. | | |
| | LOCAL VENDORS AND FARMERS READY TO SERVE YOU! | | |
| | Nashua Farmers Market Open every Sunday, 10 amâ2 pm Vendors and visitors alike are having fun mingling and checking out all the offerings at the Sunday market at City Hall â won’t you join us? From farm-fresh produce, to enticing baked goods, local wines, honey and maple syrup, to clothing and other locally made items, the Nashua Farmers Market has lots to explore. Come meet the friendly faces of your neighbors, and support their endeavors! American Farmland Trust is holding a “Best Farmers Market” competition â would you click on the button and vote for us? The winning market gets $1,000, which would go a long way towards continuing our success. We’re listed as “City Hall Plaza Farmers Market.” THANK YOU!!! | | |
| | | MEET YOUR LOCAL VENDORS! jajaBelle’s is a Downtown Nashua favorite! At the corner of Factory and Main, Jessica dePontbriand’s bakery offers a welcoming vibe and a vibrant variety of treats. Stop in Wednesdaysâ Sundays for breakfast, lunch, coffee, baked goods, all kinds of fun drinks like smoothies, and more. jajaBelle’s also offers catering. | | |
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| | CHAT ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCES, AND YOU COULD WIN! | | |
| | Interviewees wanted! Greater Nashua Food Council is seeking community members to interview (remotely or in person) to hear their experiences with local community services. GNFC is offering a chance to win one of four $50 Visa gift cards to interviewees. The GNFC focus is food, but services to be discussed can also include healthcare, education, transportation, housing, etc. The purpose of these interviews is to help understand how services are being communicated and accessed in our community, as part of a larger effort to understand what barriers people face to getting services and what can be done to alleviate those issues. They are looking for 50 participants over the age of 18 that are residents of Greater Nashua. Interviews will take 30â60 minutes and will be conducted over the phone, on a virtual platform like Zoom or Google, or socially distanced in person, as appropriate. Interviews can be conducted in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Cantonese as needed. All responses will be confidential and will be combined with others, to be used as a collective only. A summary report will be written and shared with the community to help improve these services. This report will make no mention of names. Please sign up below for an interview slot. Thank you for helping! | | |
| | REMOTE MUSIC THERAPY FOR KIDS, TEENS, ADULTS | | |
| | Music Therapy at the Nashua Community Music School Music Therapy is a research-based practice that uses music to work towards non-musical goals. Music Therapy participants will not be focused on learning how to play music, instead they will focus on using music as a tool to improve emotional, social, cognitive, behavioral, and physical skills. âââââââ Music Therapy is beneficial for children and adults diagnosed with developmental and intellectual disabilities, older adults experiencing memory loss, and kids, teens, and adults with emotional disorders. Music Therapy can also be beneficial for individuals who need help expressing themselves and might like to use music as an expressive outlet. You can also email Tori Caruso, the school’s Music Therapy Director, at [email protected] to set up a FREE consultation today, or call the school at (603) 881-7030. | | |
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| | Front Door Agency Since 1987, Front Door Agency has offered support and provided services to assist individuals and families transition from crisis to self-sufficiency. The Front Door Agency serves the Greater Nashua community through its core programs: Read the story of one woman’s life that was transformed HERE, and then please consider giving a gift to support Front Door Agency’s work HERE. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the client families of Front Door Agency are in urgent need of supplies. These single-mom families also need back-to-school supplies. See the needs list HERE and please consider helping, if you can. Front Door Agency is hiring! See the job posting HERE. | | |
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| | Great American Downtown is a Nashua based 501c3 Nonprofit Corporation that provides coordination, collaboration and partnerships that unify the entire Nashua community around a common vision for an attractive downtown that is vibrant, viable and truly reflects the character of our city. Learn all about our wide variety of programs here. We’re happy to share information about your upcoming event in and around Downtown Nashua! If you would like to submit an event to be featured in The Downtowner, or are interested in any other sponsorship and marketing opportunities through Great American Downtown, contact our Downtown Marketing Coordinator at [email protected]. | | |
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