Week of October 13, 2024

Author

Kathleen Prosperi-McClard
October 13, 2024

Good morning, 🫎 Neighbor!

This is What’s Up Elk, your weekly reminder that there’s more to do than you realize!

In today’s newsletter:

  • This week’s top events

  • Tons of live music

  • Events coming up

Let’s get to it.

-Kathleen

P.S. Just a side note: when you see something highlighted and underlined in blue, make sure to click on it if you’re interested. These are links and will give you more information about the event.

Don’t let the cooler temperatures and dark days get you down. Put some fun activities on your calendar ahead of time, like one of the following art classes that are still open:

🧺 Basket Making Class: The first one of these classes sold out so fast that a second one had to be added (the first one hasn’t even happened yet!). If that doesn’t tell you that it’s going to be good, I don’t know what will! This class will take place on November 2 from 10 AM - 2 PM. The cost is $40/person. Register here.  

🦉Winter Owl Pottery Class: If you missed out on this class in the fall, you do have another chance to take it, but make sure you register SOON - it’s already half full! This time, on November 13 from 5:30-8:30 PM, participants will be building a winter or Christmas-themed owl with ceramic artist Lisa Conklin Conn of Conklin Pottery Studio. The cost is $45/person. Register here.

— Both classes are happening at📍237 Main Street, Ridgway

🖼️ Are you an artist that has dreamed of selling your artwork? Now may be your opportunity to do so! ECCOTA is now accepting applications for new artists who want to sell items in their sales gallery for the holiday season.

This Week’s Top Events

👻 Are you ready to get your spook on? I hope so! Make plans now to go to The Haunted Forest on Friday or Saturday night between 7-10 PM. It’s no walk in the park! Well, I guess, technically, that is what it is — it’s a walk through Benzinger Park! However, it’s no easy task to make it to the end - be prepared to get scared silly. The cost is $5/person. Concessions will be available. Learn more about it here. — 📍155 Fleming Road, St. Marys

Celebrate fall in Ridgway this Saturday, October 19 from 11 AM-7 PM at their Harvest Daze festival!

🎶 Live Music:

  • Hunter Robinson: 11 AM - 12:30 PM

  • Eric Koval: 1 - 2:30 PM

  • Irelynn & Caleb: 3 - 4:30 PM

  • Dan Weyant: 5- 7 PM

🍷Wineries: Benezette Wines, Allegheny Cellars Winery and Happy Hour Winery

🍺 Breweries: Brew Bank Brewing Co.

Food Trucks: 🌯 Anytime, Lunchtime!, 🥣 Brothmonger And 🍜 Ronin No Yatai

🧁 Vendors: There will be a wide variety of vendors set up offering handmade items, baked goods, and more!

🎟️ Raffles and Fundraisers: There will be raffles and fundraising opportunities throughout the event — (one of them will be a Pie Booth where you will be able to pie the mayor and other officials in town) — to raise money for the Ridgway Parks Program.

📇 Local Authors Meet Up: There is a going to be a meet up of local published and aspiring authors at The Creative Cup at 12 PM. This is for anyone who is interested in the process of publishing a book, but doesn’t know where to start. The goal is to get people together to share ideas, to help one another and to answer any questions that people may have. Call 814-512-1484 if you have any questions.

— 📍Downtown Ridgway

✨ There are two BINGO events happening this week that are benefiting The American Cancer Society/Relay for Life. Each event is $20.

  • Basket Bingo: Sunday, October 13 at 1:00 PM —📍Ridgway Eagles, 339 N. Broad Street, Ridgway

  • Scary Bingo: Wednesday, October 16 at 6:30-8:30 PM — 📍Copper Fox Winery, 1215 Million Dollar Highway, Kersey

SUNDAY (10/13)

🍎 Pioneer Day: Put down your phones for a few hours (between 1-4 PM) and have a little old-fashioned fun! There will be demonstrations of all kinds — how to cook hickory syrup, make bush-crafts and carve a walking stick — plus, you can even help make apple cider (with free samples, of course). There will also be live bluegrass music. There is no cost to attend. — 📍950 Winslow Road, Benezette

MONDAY (10/14)

🥂 The Annual Ridgway-Elk Chamber Banquet — this year, it’s going to be a semi-formal evening to celebrate Ridgway’s Bicentennial — is going to be next Friday, October 18 at The Royal Inn, but if you’d like to attend, you have to RSPV by today at 4 PM. In addition to a buffet dinner, The Gatsby Gang Jazz Trio will be playing live music and Jim Baumgratz will be speaking. Cocktail hour starts at 5 PM. The tickets are $35 each and can be purchased by contacting Roberta at 814-776-1424. — 📍17089 Boot Jack Hill, Ridgway

WEDNESDAY (10/16

💕 Capsea, Inc., an organization in Ridgway that serves local victims of domestic violence, is sponsoring A Window Between Worlds, a transformative healing-through-art workshop, at The Creative Cup. (It’s a drop-in event so you can show up anytime between 5-7 PM.) Express yourself through hands-on creative activities in a judgement-free safe space. There is no cost to attend. — 📍239 Main Street, Ridgway

THURSDAY (10/17)

‼️ There will be a presentation — Danger in the Digital Age : Social Media, Drugs, Predators, and Other Risks — at 6:30 PM with Elk County District Attorney Beau Grove and the PA Department of the Attorney General. There is no cost to attend. — 📍St. Marys Area High School Auditorium

SATURDAY (10/19)

🍁 Big Maple Farm’s Natural Therapies is having a bake sale between 11 AM-4 PM at Big Maple Farm’s market location to raise money for the various programs that they offer. In addition to offering sweets for sale, you can visit with some of their lambs, take a fall-themed photo and more. —📍841 Montmorenci Road, Ridgway (BMF Market Location)

🫎 🪓 Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a woodsman in the 18th century? Learn hands-on from one (or at least from someone dressed as one!) directly:

You’ll learn:

  • The history of elk in our area

  • Skills used in the 1790s

  • All about muzzleloaders — both primitive and modern

It’s happening at the Elk Country Visitor Center from 2-3 PM. There is no cost to attend— 📍950 Winslow Road, Benezette

☕️ In last week’s issue, I shared the borderline problematic relationship that I have with coffee and the important role that it plays in helping me publish this newsletter. You can read my first post here.

Many of you seemed to enjoy hearing about it so I thought, Why not overshare a little bit more about this seemingly unimportant, but essential aspect of my life?

Nine months ago, my husband bought us 8 espresso glasses on Amazon. Why two people need eight (?!) espresso glasses, I’ll never know. Maybe he was preparing for an espresso-tasting party we never threw. But there we were, fully stocked like coffee aficionados. Sadly, this past week, I broke the 7th glass. Now, we’re down to just one—sharing it like a treasured relic. To add to the drama, our trusty Nespresso machine decided to billow smoke at 5 AM Thursday morning. You could say I’m a little concerned for our caffeine future. How will I make my espresso shots without that machine? And what happens if this last glass breaks?

At this rate, I might need more than just a cup of coffee from you all. Does Amazon have a ‘coffee survival’ registry?

SUNDAY (10/13)

Pioneer Day @ Elk Country Visitor Center | Blue Grass Music | 1-4 PM

FRIDAY (10/18)

The Dented Keg Taproom | The Slashing | 6-7 PM

‘60s Decade Party @ Straub Taproom | DJ, Lil Man | 6-9 PM

Casalis | Dan Weyant | 7-10 PM

The Summit | Karaoke | 7-11 PM

Casalis | The Slashing | 8 PM

SATURDAY (10/19) 

Harvest Fest | Hunter Robinson | 11 AM - 12:30 PM

Harvest Fest | Eric Koval | 1-2:30 PM

Harvest Fest | Irelynn & Caleb | 3 - 4:30 PM

Harvest Fest | Dan Weyant | 5-7 PM

‘60s Decade Party @ Straub Taproom | Dave Carr | 6-9 PM

Camp Owners | Splatter Jack | 9 PM

🎃 Students in grades 4-8 are invited to a series of After School Discover Days where they will design, build and test pumpkin chuckers. They will take place on the following days:

  • October 15, 2024 at the Johnsonburg Library from 4:30 - 6:30 PM

  • October 17, 2024 at the Ridgway Public Library from 3:00 - 4:30 PM

There is no cost to attend and no registration is required.

👦👧 There is going to be a Nerf War at the Boys and Girls Club of St. Marys on Friday, October 18.

  • Kiddos in Kindergarten through 5th grade: 4-5:30 PM

  • Grades 6 through 12 : 5:30-6:30 PM

The cost is $3/$5 (members/non-members). You are required to bring your own non-motorized nerf gun and eye protection. — 📍19 N. St. Marys Street, St. Marys

📚 There is going to be a fun event — Storytime with Mrs. Bauer — for the little people in your life (specifically, those between the ages of 4-5 years old) on October 18 between 6-7 PM. Children will listen to a reading of “Room on the Broom” — a fun Halloween-themed book — and then take part in a craft activity. There will also be a snack. The cost is $5/child. Registration is required. — 📍Memorial Park Clubhouse, St. Marys

🎈The registration deadline has been extended for October 25’s No School Discover Day at the Ridgway Public Library. The theme of the day is “Newton’s Laws: Where Force Meets Fun!" and is for students in grades 4-8. The cost is $20 (8 AM-3 PM - full day) or $10 (12:30-3:30 PM - half day). You can register here until October 18.

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