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SearchFARMERS MARKET OPENS SUNDAY JULY 19
This Farmers Market will be better than ever. We are celebrating the 250th anniversary of our country. Show your patriotic spirit! Wear your favorite red, white and blue outfit. The Farmers Market is 10 am to 2 pm July 19.
The city will be giving away many items decorated with stars and stripes and many things nice. We have patriotic sunglasses for children and for adults. Our patriotic stickers are perfect for adding a splash of red, white and blue to just about anything. There will be a booth where you can make a bracelet with our red, white and blue beads. There are patriotic headbands of many designs.
The petting zoo will also be present as always. We will have some live music. There will be many more booths than in the past. The theme of the 250th Anniversary of our country was exciting for many of the vendors.
READ READY BELLEVUE
Wanted!! Families with children in Bellevue that are 0-5 years old. Please sign up for the Read Ready Program that is designed to help children be ready for kindergarten. It is a free program which includes the following: Dolly Partin Imagination Library free books every month birth-age 5. Library cards and story times. Early brain development. Weekly parenting tips. Information can be obtained from the Footsteps2brilliance app ages 3-5.
The City of Bellevue is going to give you a $25 Kroger gift card for signing up your family. There will be community led events which will include Story Time, music and movement, Pop-up learning and park activities, Little Free Library adventures and city celebrations and family fun. These activities will just be for Read Ready members.
Make sure your child is Kindergarten ready! There will be a sign-up booth at the Farmers Market and other city events. This is a fun way to get ready for Kindergarten and give your child a head start. I only listed a few of the free resources but there are many more.
This is a great way for your child to meet other children his or her age which really helps out when they head into the first day of school and know some of the people in their class. This can make a big difference between them liking school or being afraid to go to school.
LOCAL HISTORIANS IN THE NEWS
Southbank Living Magazine featured Jim and Bev McPhail on the cover of the July issue that was mailed to your house. The magazine has four pages inside devoted to the story. For those of you that have not met this couple, I will tell you a little bit about the volunteer work they perform for the city of Bellevue.
They started researching the history of their house on Fairfield Avenue and were given access to the old records stored in a special room in the City Hall building. They carefully went through all of the old records and eventually volunteered to arrange them into a room in another one of our buildings to make a museum so that residents can see some of the past of our city.
Very few cities have all of their old records due to poor storage or fires. Fortunately, we still have most of the old records dating back to 1870 including the original charter of our city. The article showed a building permit for Sacred Heart Church dated August 11, 1892.
One of the other interesting documents was a letter to the Mayor complaining about a dead horse on O’Fallon. I get the same kind of calls but it is a deer instead of a horse. The third document in the story was about connecting to our new water main to get running water in your house dated 1888. This is why the mains are breaking all of the time. That means some of them are 138 years old.
Beside all of the historic ventures, they also did research on the ghosts of Bellevue. This dynamic duo (Bev and Jim) once a year lead a group of people on a haunted tour of the city even connecting it to the Bobby Macke ghost. This year it will be October 16. They help out and volunteer at most city events. I would need this whole paper to describe everything they have done for our city.
-Charlie Cleves, Mayor