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Mother Nature didn’t get the notice and her timing was anything but wanted.
This year’s restart of the monthly First Friday street festival, postponed for more than a year due to COVID-19 pandemic, was basically washed out by inclement weather, including heavy rain showers that arrived about 6 p.m., an hour after it was scheduled to kick off.
The rain clouds covered a wide area from New York to Maryland borders.
The menacing large frontal system reached the city as the fun was supposed to start.
Beth Armanda and Shanin Dougherty, co-chairs for the First Friday Committee, said outdoor vendors during this particular First Friday had to be canceled due to the ongoing rain, but to never count First Friday out.
May 7, 2021
“That sense of community again” that’s what Shanin Dougherty, co-chair of the First Friday Committee, hopes to find tonight when the widely popular Lycoming Arts First Friday event returns after a long pandemic-prompted hiatus.
Yes, Shanin, that’s something we long for too. As a community newspaper, watching folks go into a prolonged period of isolation participating in it ourselves has been hard.
So hard, in fact, that many would call it the biggest challenge of a lifetime.
Simply put, we miss seeing you. We miss all of the interactions with the community, in many ways, including the arts.
Organizers hope to build on success of First Friday
Courtesy of Carol Garsten
The Spartan Dance Club from Mountain View High School is set to perform a jazz dance and then teach a hip-hop dance lesson to First Friday visitors 6-6:45 p.m. Friday at Veterans Community Plaza in downtown Los Altos.
The next downtown Los Altos First Friday event, 6-8 p.m. Friday, features a “Dancing in the Streets” exhibition and dance lesson by local youth dance groups at Veterans Community Plaza, followed by music all around downtown.
After a 13-month hiatus, First Friday made a successful return to downtown Los Altos April 2, according to organizers. The monthly events, which aim to draw visitors to downtown restaurants and shops, offer live entertainment, special promotions and themed games and activities.
MALLORIE McILWAIN George and Melinda Werts, left, and center, have their portrait drawn by Samia Campbell, 17, of Williamsport. right, at the 2016 Williamsport’s First Friday in downtown Williamsport on Friday Aug. 5, 2016. Williamsport High School Key Club member Kylee Neidig, 17, left, makes a balloon animal at the Kiwanis table at the 2016 Williamsport Kids First Friday in downtown Williamsport on Friday Aug. 5, 2016. The event which is sponsored by the Lions Club of Williamsport and Newberry, the Williamsport Rotary Club, the Kiwanis Club of Williamsport and Loyalsock and the James V. Brown Library features service organizations and non profits sharing information about their organziation as well as activites for kids.