Friendswood chamber prepares for Typical Car & Bicycle Present
The Friendswood Chamber of Commerce has introduced that inhabitants can commence registering for two upcoming events on their calendar.
We have the 16th yearly Common Car or truck & Bicycle Exhibit, scheduled for Could 15 at Stevenson Park, subsequent to the chamber’s workplaces. So if you have a 1957 Ford Thunderbird that you have retained in idea-top form by all implies enter it for the display so a lot of others can value the splendor of cars and trucks from yesteryear.
Six finest-of-show trophies will be introduced and there will be awards for 1st, 2nd and third place.
The entry fee and booth is $30 for each individual.
The awesome factor about motor vehicle displays like these are the vivid colours routinely exhibited and this year’s celebration will be no unique. So by all implies carry those people classics and show them for all to see on that mid-May well Saturday.
For more info, call Carol, Diane or Joanne at 281-482-3329 or email the chamber at [email protected].
While it is a small even more down the road, our next chamber-sponsored event is the 30th annual “Win A Truck Raffle.”
As you may possibly remember, the city’s July Fourth festivities in 2020 were canceled apart from people pocket parades. The Earn A Truck Raffle did get held but it was postponed all the way to Labor Working day.
But as of proper now, it appears to be like like custom will be returning when the raffle drawing will be held the working day following America’s birthday amid plenty of crimson, white and blue bunting like it ought to be. The Fourth of July falls on a Sunday this yr, so the festivities are prepared for July 5.
Tickets are $10 each individual and anyone can get as lots of tickets as they’d like. To throw your identify in the hat, just go to www.friendswoodchamber.com
And by the way, this year’s prize will be a 2021 Ford Ranger STX. The actual drawing will be held at approximately 4 p.m.
Mary Queen Catholic Church, found at 606 Cedarwood, will be hosting the Knights of Columbus Fish Fry on Friday, April 5. From 5:30-7:30 p.m. It’ll be a get out only prospect.
The Boy Scouts will also be at the church on March 28, advertising Easter lilies. If a single wants extra information and facts, please connect with 281-482-1391.
When Spring Sparkle comes April 10, let us not overlook 1776 Memorial Park, situated at 140 Imperial Generate. I dropped by there on Thursday and to the left of the kayak launching site, there was a honest amount of litter. I picked up a plastic bag that was on the floor and built fantastic use of it by accumulating some of the litter.
But it demands additional focus, as does the overall park. Was that an deserted fountain I observed to the ideal of the parking lot? When you Google the park identify, there is a photograph from 2016 that looks just like the at the time-working fountain. Back in 2016, the fountain appeared to have flowing h2o about rocks. The rocks are even now there, the flowing water isn’t. Today, there’s a h2o-logged baseball in the pool and plants and that’s it.
I was advised that there also employed to be a disc golf course in 1776 Memorial Park. But it was eliminated for drainage get the job done. On the DG Class Review world-wide-web internet site, in black letters, surrounded by a crimson border, it suggests about the 1776 Park DGC: “Unplayable.” Over that, it states “course extinct” with illustrations of tombstones future to the wording.
Is there a new disc golf system prepared for Friendswood? Far too terrible about the old a single. It was obtaining great reviews about the format on that website. If a new just one is built, it requires 12 “holes.” Nevertheless other neighboring towns have 9-gap programs, DGers seriously appreciated the excess three holes at the “extinct” class.