"On the Avenue!" 2/25/14
Mark Pittard
Hello Dallas! It's time once again to take a trip down our beloved Avenue!
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FOR FRIDAY 2/28/14 – IRISH FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT – FAIR PARK – 6 PM
OFF THE AVENUE – It’s the opening night for one of the largest Irish Festivals in the United States and its free admission is you get into the gates before 7 PM! (The Mayor of Greenville Avenue will make an appearance.)
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FOR SATURDAY 3/1 AND SUNDAY 3/2/14– IRISH FESTIVAL – FAIR PARK
OFF THE AVENUE – Continue the fun at Fair Park at the North Texas Irish Festival as hours are 10:30 to 11:30 PM on Saturday and 11:30 AM to 7:30 PM on Sunday. Great Irish and Celtic bands will be performing, plus there will be many food and crafts booths. Go to www.ntif.org for more details. (The Mayor of Greenville Avenue will be making appearances throughout the weekend.)
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GREENVILLE AVENUE NEWS:
From the 2/25/14 edition of the “Dallas Morning News” – Firebird Restaurant Group owner of Snuffer’s Restaurant & Bar, said the chains’ original Greenville location will reopen to the publicon March 10 – just in time for the St. Patrick’s Day festivities on Greenville Avenue!
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WHAT’S ON TAP?
From Kandace West Foley - ForFriday 3/28/14 – Night Hotel North Dallas NORTH DALLAS 2645 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX 75234 -Guitarist, Singer/Songwriter - Marc Benno -www.marcbenno.com – Comedian Mark Lundholm - www.marklundholm.com
Doors open at 6 pm - entertainment starts at 7pm - To donate auction items, send email torandi...@gmail.com - All tickets entered into onsite drawing for March 29th Mavericks game. Must be present to win.
Special room rate $79 -mention the fundraiser - All ticket and auction proceeds to be donated to Mary’s Tree of Life.
To Donate or Purchase Tickets: www.marystreeoflife.org
Mary Banner needs our help. After months of grueling Hepatitis C treatment that failed, a diagnosis of liver cancer, chemotherapy, remission, a second liver tumor and radiation treatment, on January 4, 2014, our prayers were answered and Mary received a new liver. If you think the hard part is over, it’s not. Now she must do everything possible to ensure her body does not reject the liver, which she likes to refer to as “her younger man”. The organ donor was a 54-year-old man involved in a motor vehicle accident, to whose family we are forever grateful. Mary’s ultimate goal is to return to her midwifery practice, which is her passion.
For at least the next 6-8 weeks, she will have twice weekly clinic visits for lab work and once a week doctor’s visits. The round-trip mileage from her home is approximately 70 miles and each visit will require a co-pay. She is currently on an anti-rejection regimen consisting of three medications, which are minimally covered by her insurance plan. Just one of those medications costs $2,000/month.
As a result of her illness, Mary has been unable to work for the past two years. In order to pay her living expenses and costly insurance premiums, she has relied on her savings and retirement, which is now exhausted. It will be a minimum of 6-8 months before she can safely return to work. As a part of the liver transplant program, she is required to fund raise. Based on the advice of the liver transplant team, she will need to raise no less than $50,000 to cover medical expenses and medications.
A one-time donation or recurring donations can be made atwww.marystreeoflife.org.
You can make a silent auction donation. Contact Dee Gray at214.952.9808 or Randie Benno at214.537.6507 for drop-off or questions. All donations must be received by March 14, 2014
You can purchase a custom T-shirt, and wear it the night of the fundraiser to show your support of Mary. T-shirts can be purchased atwww.booster.com/marystreeoflife for $20 plus $5 shipping. All proceeds from the t-shirt sales will be donated to Mary. T-shirts must be purchased by February 12, 2014.
This is your opportunity to “live it then give it”.
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WHAT’S ON TAP?
Here are some key dates that everyone should note:
Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras) – 3/4/14– the Quarter on McKinney Avenue – the number one Fat Tuesday party in town!
35th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Greenville Avenue – Upper Greenville – 3/15/14 – Saturday - one of the largest St.Patrick’s Day parades in the nation with 100,000 people attending!
Lower Greenville Street Bash –3/15/14 – Saturday - the greatest party in Dallas every year in the area where Stan’s and Dubliner are located with 15,000 partiers!
St. Patrick’s Day – 3/17/14 – Monday – the greatest holiday of them all! – the Mayor of Greenville Avenue will has his informal pub crawl that day!
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THE DALLAS SEEN:
Many of Dallas’ most prominent were sighted on and off the Avenue last weekend. Here are just a few of those sightings!
Last Friday, the Great Guinness Toast was held at Trinity Hall and a great time was had by all! Marcus Blake and yours truly were two of the contestants in the contest. At the end three of us had made it to the end including Marcus, a guy named Mike and me. Somehow, I edged these great competitors and won the Toastmaster for 2014!
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Later on Friday I traveled to Stan’s and my beloved Greenville Avenue for a Late Night Happy Hour and when I entered the establishment one of the first people whom I saw was “Bug”! He was working the bar and was happy to see me!
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I have to run, but I hope to see you on the Avenue!
The Mayor of Greenville Avenue (H,O.F. #1)