{"id":89,"date":"2011-10-10T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2011-10-09T09:07:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T13:07:17","slug":"local-residents-come-together-to-celebrate-coatesville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Local residents come together to celebrate Coatesville"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrate Coatesville Day planned for Oct. 22<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

By Stephanie Weaver<\/strong>, Correspondent, CoatesvilleTimes.com<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Organizers of the first Celebrate Coatesville Day meet to work on planning: From left; Gerry Hook, Jim Reach, Cathy Ranck Carr, Judy Jones, Cindy Pelet Hohl and Fred Byerley.<\/p><\/div>\n

COATESVILLE \u2014 No matter where life takes you, your hometown will always be a huge part of you. It\u2019s where your roots lie. Nine local residents understand the significance of this and are hosting an event called \u201cCelebrate Coatesville Day\u201d on Oct. 22 at Ash Park in order to celebrate their hometown pride.<\/p>\n

Celebrate Coatesville Day is the brainchild of Judy Jones who got the idea for the event after she saw the success of her \u201cYou Know You\u2019re from Coatesville When\u2026\u201d Facebook page.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Facebook page was a place where people could go and post about their memories of growing up in Coatesville,\u201d Jones said. \u201cEverybody started remembering all of these stories and soon the group grew to include over 1,260 people. It was amazing how we all had the same thoughts and I came up with the idea of a community event to revive the feelings of what we had back then.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Celebrate Coatesville Day committee, the intent of the event is to reinforce the positive connections which are evident on the Facebook page. They want to provide the community with a day that everybody can come together to share their Coatesville pride.<\/p>\n

Cathy Carr, who is in charge of the art work and flyer design for the committee, was first in line to help out.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as Judy posted on the Facebook page that she wanted to have an event, I was the first to respond and say \u2018Yes! Let\u2019s do it!\u2019 I have a background in event planning so having those design and organizational skills helped me to contribute to the event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though the committee\u2019s numbers are small, their commitment to the cause is mighty. The group has worked tirelessly to spread the word about their event to the community as well as get Ash Park ready in preparation for the big day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe distributed flyers and even went door-to-door,\u201d Judy stated. \u201cGerry Hook, who is another committee member, also came up with a database from Yellow Pages with different companies so we could call all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group also has been making routine trips to Ash Park prior to the event to pick up garbage and make the area look great.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the small amount of time we have had to put this together, we have made great strides,\u201d said Judy.<\/p>\n

Attendees of Celebrate Coatesville Day will get to enjoy an area where old classmates can catch up. There will also be live performances, complimentary \u201cCelebrate Coatesville\u201d bracelets, door prizes, and pony rides, playground games and face painters for the kiddies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am hoping to see some people from the past,\u201d said committee member Gerry Hook. \u201cIt\u2019d be great to relive all of the things we did while growing up in Coatesville and everything that we remember including the old stores, the old music, the old clothes and getting in trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n

Committee member Cindy Pelet Hohl sums it up perfectly, \u201cIt\u2019ll be a great time to revitalize the spirit of Coatesville and have the city come together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Celebrate Coatesville Day is on Saturday, October 22 from 11am to 4pm at Ask Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrate Coatesville Day planned for Oct. 22 By Stephanie Weaver, Correspondent, CoatesvilleTimes.com COATESVILLE \u2014 No matter where life takes you, your hometown will always be a huge part of you. It\u2019s where your roots lie. Nine local residents understand the significance of this and are hosting an event called \u201cCelebrate Coatesville Day\u201d on Oct. 22 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[33,32,24],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-ash-park","tag-celebration","tag-coatesville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}