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| | Dear Downtowner, For the past two years, Great American Downtown has worked with the City of Nashua Pride Committee to produce some great parades and festivals celebrating our LGBTQ+ family, friends, and neighbors, and Nashua’s welcoming spirit. With NH’s “Safer at Home” advisory still in place, we worked this year to put together a great virtual iteration of this event for 2020 – and we are so excited to enjoy the livestream with all of you tomorrow at 2pm! Great American Downtown’s mission is to provide 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. We are so proud to be a part of showcasing some great local talent and moving speakers – and are grateful for the opportunity to show off the quality of Nashua’s character. Our capacity to be open, accepting, affirming, and confident in our love for our neighbors is something that makes ours such a great community in which to live, love, work, and play. As Pride Month comes to a close, let’s come together virtually to celebrate. We hope you will join us! More info, and links to the live-streamed event below!
Warmly,
Paul Shea Executive Director Great American Downtown
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| | Our photo of the week was shared by Downtowner Johnathan Vail, and features creative characters livening up the outside of Sohn Tailors, while social distancing! What a fun scene! 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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| | Nashua Pride Festival virtual event Saturday, June 27 at 2 pm The City of Nashua is gearing up for our unique take on our annual Pride Festival. This year, we’re creating a virtual event that will include a bevy of drag queens, several musical acts, and a queer-focused 10-minute play. Guest speakers will also be featured. Great American Downtown is proud to be a partner in this production, and we hope you will tune in! | | |
| | GET YOUR GREEK FOOD FIX THIS WEEKEND! | | |
| | St. Philip Greek Food Festival offers pop-up event Saturday, June 27 11 amâ 6 pm Are you sad that the annual St. Philip Greek Food Festival has to be postponed from May to October this year? Us, too! But great news: The church will give us a taste of our favorite Greek foods this weekend, by offering a drive-up mini event! St. Philip Greek Orthodox Church will hold a GREEK FOOD POP-UP this Friday and Saturday from 11 amâ6 pm each day. They will be serving a limited menu including YiaYia’s famous meatballs, stuffed grape leaves with the secret egg-lemon sauce, spanakopita (spinach baked in filo pastry dough), cheese and spinach tiropita (triangles baked in filo) and of course, baklava! PRE-ORDER ONLINE HERE. Ordering is available now through the event dates, and call-in ordering is open on the days of the event at 603-889-4000. This is a drive-thru event â please place your order before arriving at the church. | | |
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| | VISIT US AT THE FARMERS MARKET SUNDAY! | | |
| | Nashua Farmers Market Open every Sunday, 10 amâ2 pm With good social distancing in mind, and to accommodate as many vendors as possible, this season we will be operating on three sides of City Hall (229 Main Street) with lots of space between vendors (map shown above), a requirement for all to wear masks, a one-way flow of foot traffic and other health and safety measures. This location for the 2020 season is conveniently located next to the Elm Street Parking Garage, which has free parking on all levels daily after 5 pm, as well as all day Saturdays and Sundays! Vendor list and more information on safety practices can be found by clicking below. We canât wait to see you all again! | | |
| | TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME! | | |
| | Nashua Silver Knights announce abbreviated 2020 season Season Opener next week! July 2 The Futures Collegiate Baseball League of New England announced the dates and start times for its abbreviated 2020 regular season. The Silver Knightsâ tenth season will open at Holman Stadium on Thursday, July 2. The Silver Knights will host the North Shore Navigators in their home season opener, a rematch of last seasonâs first-round playoff game. Season tickets and single-game tickets are available by calling the box office at 603-718-8883. | | |
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| | VISIT DOWNTOWN’S LATEST PUB! | | |
| | Casey Magee’s Irish Pub is open! 8 Temple Street Owner Matt Casey welcomes you to join him and his staff at 8 Temple Street, for indoor and outdoor dining and imbibing! Casey Magee’s features a full pub menu, more than 20 Irish whiskeys, a dozen draft beers, 15 televisions and two pool tables upstairs. Live entertainment beginning in July will include trivia, open mic, karaoke, acoustic performers, and live bands. The bar seats 20 and there’s a 20-seat patio option as well. “Pub grub” with an Irish flair includes: * Traditional Irish Boxty (potato pancakes) * Traditional Fish & Chips * Signature 10 oz. Burger: The Fatty Magee (see the enticing photo below!) * Irish Nachos: served with house-made russet potato chips * Other items like Loaded Potato Skins, Flatbreads, Salads, Sandwiches, Wraps, Marinated Steak Tips Tues.âSat., 4 pmâ1 am Once football starts, they will be open on Sundays as well. | | |
| | CULINARY STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCED | | |
| | Help young culinary students by donating to this scholarship fund! Mola Foods presents culinary scholarship fund Mola Foods â a local business that brings international flavors to Nashua â has announced the creation of a scholarship fund for aspiring chefs. Culinary students struggle with student loans after graduation because of the mediocre salary that they will be getting when starting working at restaurants. Many of them are bound to default on student loans and for this reason, Mola Foods is trying to help these student culinary dreams by providing them with a $500 scholarship to help pay their culinary program. Mola Foods, Inc. creates seasonings, sauces, tea, chips and marinades from tastes and flavors from around the world, with the first being Mola Chili (TM). Relishes are made from authentic ancient Cameroonian tribal recipes that have survived by being passed from mother to daughter. Mola Foods sells a “world culture in a bottle,” with flavor and freshness. | | |
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| | Partnership for Successful Living Since 1980, this group of organizations provides access to housing, primary and mental health care, substance use disorder treatment and prevention, education, employment, and supportive services to help individuals and families achieve sustainable independence. Four New Hampshire nonprofit agencies collaborate as members of the Partnership for Successful Living, creating an innovative network helping NH families and individuals solve many of lifeâs most challenging issues and gain sustainable independence. Program services delivered through the Partnership members include: - substance use disorder treatment, prevention, and recovery support services.
- primary and preventive healthcare.
- HIV/AIDS education, case management, supportive services, affordable housing, and prevention.
- health care and homemaking services for elderly, disabled, and home bound individuals.
- affordable and supportive housing solutions for individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
While each of the Partnership members is a separate legal entity with its own 501(c)(3) status, mission, budget, and staff, they share back-end resources whenever it is efficient to do so, and collaborate on service delivery when it leads to better client outcomes. Most importantly, by sharing resources and working as one, the Partnership for Successful Living is able to coordinate a large variety of funding streams and, as a result, can better deliver a comprehensive array of interventions designed to empower individuals and families and ultimately build a stronger community without duplication. The primary populations served include: very low to low income individuals who are chronically homeless or homeless individuals and families, homeless veterans and their families; individuals living with severe mental illness, substance use disorder, or co-occurring disorders; and individuals living with a chronic illness or disability such as HIV/AIDS, developmental disabilities. The organizations are: - Harbor Homes, Inc.creates and provides quality residential and supportive services for individuals, and their families, with mental illness and/or experiencing homelessness. www.harborhomes.org
- Healthy at Home, Inc. strives to enhance the lives of people with illness or injury through a cooperative relationship with the community, professional medical+ providers, and organizations that serve people in need of healthcare. www.healthyathome.org
- Greater Nashua Council on Alcoholism, Inc. provides comprehensive substance use treatment and recovery services to individuals and families in a supportive environment while providing a strategic framework for substance use prevention in New Hampshire.www.keystonehall.org
- Milford Regional Counseling Services, Inc. provides access to professional mental health care, regardless of income or geographical obstacles. www.mrcs.org
- The Southern NH HIV/AIDS Task Force, Inc. increases the quality and availability of knowledge, services and resources in all matters relating to HIV infection and AIDS to the people in the Southern New Hampshire region, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, disability, gender, age, or sexual orientation. www.aidstaskforcenh.org
- Welcoming Light, Inc. provides event planning, quality training, technical assistance and staff development to the partnership agencies, for-profit businesses, government agencies, and other social service professionals to enhance their ability to provide mental health treatment, HIV/AIDS and minority health training and other related services. www.wli.org.
Recent success stories from Partnership agencies includes: - Harbor Homes and Keystone Hall have increased their ability to provide Medication Assisted Treatment by 300% in less than three years, thanks to fundraising and community support. Medication Assisted Treatment, or MAT for short, is considered an evidence-based best practice in the treatment of substance use disorders, including opioid use disorders and alcoholism.
- Harbor Homes Receives Funding to Help NH Veterans: Given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many of our veteran neighbors have found their places of employment closed, their hours sharply reduced, or lost their jobs entirely. As a result, more NH veterans are in tenuous financial circumstances. To make things worse, social distancing and proper hand-washing are next to impossible for those who end up homeless and live outdoors. To help combat this, we are grateful to be a recipient of additional federal funding that is earmarked to support the immediate needs of veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessnsess throughout NH. Through its Veterans FIRST programming, veterans and their families are stabilized in a safe environment, while Harbor Homes staff provides employment counseling, assistance with securing permanent housing, and a host of other wraparound support services.
Partnership organizations are hiring! Want to help your community? Check out their career page here. Their website is under construction, but you can follow them on Facebook or call them at (603) 882-3616 or email [email protected]. | | |
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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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