Honoring Our Past | Shaping Our Future
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In September 2019, the City of Newcastle will celebrate its 25th anniversary. To commemorate this milestone, on the 25th of each month, we release a special anniversary edition of the Newsletter from Newcastle City Hall, featuring special projects, events and photos. The goal is to celebrate Newcastle, while showcasing and offering unique community activities each month.
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Welcome to the August edition of our 25th anniversary newsletter! This month, it doubles as your official Newcastle Days guide. Read ahead for all of the details and schedules. We'll see you at Lake Boren Park Sept. 6-7!
#NewcastleDays is the official event hashtag. Use it on social media to share your festival pictures and videos!
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Newcastle Days
A Week of Celebration
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Newcastle Days is officially Sept. 6-7 at Lake Boren Park. But this year, we're starting the party early with a few events during the week!
Taste of Newcastle (Sept. 1-5)
To commemorate our community's silver anniversary, several Newcastle-area restaurants are participating in Taste of Newcastle the week of Newcastle Days. Participating restaurants will offer unique menu items, special packages or discounts from Monday through Thursday. Just look for the Taste of Newcastle sign in the window of your favorite restaurant. Visit the
official Newcastle Days website
next week to see a list of participating restaurants!
Newcastle Softball Classic (Sept. 4)
After the great success of the inaugural Newcastle Softball Classic this Fourth of July, we’re organizing a second game to celebrate Newcastle Days! Dust that glove off, grab that bat and join us at Risdon Middle School for the game starting at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 4. All skill levels are welcome! No practice or registration necessary, participants should simply show up at 5:30 p.m. and be ready to play.
Newcastle Days Art Exhibition (Sept. 2-27)
To celebrate Newcastle Days, the Newcastle Arts Council will host an exhibit showcasing artwork at the Newcastle Library. The community art exhibition runs Sept. 2-27, with a formal opening on Thursday, Sept. 5, 7 p.m., where the community can meet the artists.
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Newcastle Days
Broadway on Boren
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Back by popular demand, the Broadway on Boren music spectacular returns to Newcastle Days on Friday, Sept. 6 at 6:30 p.m. Director Mary Rudd has put together an all-star cast for the 2019 Broadway themed show on the outdoor stage at Lake Boren Park. You’ll see a host of new faces, hear some spectacular voices and share in Broadway music from the past and present. It’s a little taste of Broadway without the traffic and expensive parking! We’ll save a seat for you!
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March in the parade that officially kicks off Newcastle Days! You can be a part of this community tradition and help us start the day off right. We're seeking community groups, organizations, neighborhoods, even you and your dog to participate in the parade that winds through Lake Boren Park. If you'd like to join in on the fun, please fill out the
Newcastle Days Parade Entry Form
and return it to
christinac@newcastlewa.gov
by Aug. 30.
Participants in this year’s parade are required to create some sort of banner or sign that identifies the group (have fun and be creative with it)! We’re also asking all participants to bring candy or some type of giveaway to hand out to spectators watching along the parade route.
The parade starts at 10:30 a.m. If you'd like to join us and march, please arrive by 10 a.m. for parade staging. We're encouraging the entire community to come watch the parade. If you're just coming to watch, bring a bag, so you can deposit all of the goodies you receive from the marchers!
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Newcastle Days
Main Stage Performances
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The community is taking over the Newcastle Days stage this year! Instead of a band-only lineup, we’re filling our stage with community performances throughout the day. All of these performances lead up to our festival headliner: Newcastle’s own Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Alan White and his band White are back to close out Newcastle Days in style at 6 p.m.
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Newcastle Days
Activities
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Newcastle Days promises to keep you busier than ever before. View the full activities schedule below, but here are just a few highlights:
— Kids Zone featuring inflatable slide, obstacle course, Dizzy's Tumblebus and interactive Junk Chime art/music installation.
— Carnival-type games, including an inflatable axe throw, a basketball game with dual hoops and an inflatable football-throwing station on the tennis court.
— Special appearances by Captain America, Captain Marvel and the Seahawks Dancers
— See a Bellevue Fire Truck, meet a Newcastle Police Officer and explore our Newcastle Public Works vehicles, like a snow plow!
— The inaugural Coal Creek Classic, the 3-on-3 basketball tournament. Contact organizer Jim Quigg at
coalcreekclassic@gmail.com to get involved.
— Test out the Liberty High School Robotics team's T-shirt cannon, and go home with a free T-shirt from a past Newcastle Days too!
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Newcastle Days
Old Favorites
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As you can see, there are a lot of new activities planned for our 25th anniversary celebration. But don’t worry, old favorites such as the car show, pony rides and petting zoo are back.
The Cars on the Green Show goes from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 7. Cars must check-in by 9 a.m. Event-day registration is $15, but those who
pre-register by Aug. 30 get a $5 discount. Car Show entry is off of 129th Avenue Southeast. There will be awards presented in categories including People’s Choice, Best Convertible and many more. Ballots will be available for voting at the car show check-in booth.
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Newcastle Days
Honoring Our Past
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Don't forget to bring $10 cash to get your hands on a limited edition anniversary keepsake. The City of Newcastle will sell 25th anniversary T-shirts at our booth. Wear your community pride on your chest. Cash only, please.
What’s a bash honoring Newcastle’s 25th birthday without some cake? Join us at 2 p.m. to sing happy birthday as we celebrate with cake. Several of Newcastle’s past mayors will be on hand! Stop by to eat some cake and shake hands with the men and women who helped shape this community.
As many of you know, Newcastle’s history dates back further than incorporation, and you can learn more about our coal-mining past when you visit the Newcastle Historical Society booth at Newcastle Days. The normally closed Historic Newcastle Cemetery, the final resting place for our coal mining pioneers and their families since the 1870s, will also be open to the public throughout the Newcastle Days weekend. Newcastle Historical Society member Vickie Olson, whose ancestors worked in the Newcastle mines, will lead a narrated hike of the cemetery at 1 p.m.
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Newcastle Days
Celebrating the Arts
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On Saturday, everyone can get involved in exploring their creativity when the sidewalks of Lake Boren Park will come alive with color. We need your help though! Come by the Newcastle Arts Council booth and grab some chalk to leave your mark on the pathways. Everyone is welcome to participate.
There are other Newcastle Days art programs in the works too! Have fun and get creative when you decorate and paint your own rock. The rocks will become part of an installation surrounding landscaped beds outside of Newcastle City Hall.. Thank you to the Newcastle Arts Council and 4Culture for their support in offering these programs!
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Newcastle Days
Food Options
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Stop by one of these wonderful vendors for a bite to eat! Food will be available Friday evening and all day Saturday.
— Frank's Franks (gourmet sausages, hot dogs)
— Tastyz (kettle corn and shaved ice)
— Yang's Kitchen (cold appetizers)
— A Fire Inside Pizza (wood-fired pizza)
— Newcastle Chamber of Commerce Beer and Wine Garden featuring Resonate Brewery and Cedar River Cellars
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Saturday only: Chomp (fresh burritos, bowls and wraps)
Additionally, if you get there early on Saturday morning, you can purchase coffee and donuts for $1 each (cash only). Proceeds from the sales will be donated to support Coal Creek Family YMCA programming.
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Newcastle Days
Vendors and Raffles
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We’ve got a great lineup of more than 45 local businesses, vendors and nonprofits who look forward to meeting you at their booths.
Throughout the day, there will be drawings for great prizes provided by our sponsors and vendors. Stop by the City booth on your way in to find all the ways you can be entered to win! Among the prizes up for grabs: A free six-pack of oil changes courtesy of The Garage in Renton, a free 60 minute massage from VERDE Organic Body, gift certificates to local businesses and much more!
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The main Lake Boren parking lot will be closed to general parking. It will be reserved for handicapped parking, sponsors and event personnel only. As always, public parking is available on the Waterline Trail just west of Lake Boren Park. If you plan on parking here, please
enter only on Southeast 84th Way and
exit only onto 129th Avenue Southeast.
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In honor of the City's anniversary, we're sharing photos from the past 25 years! If you have photos you'd like to contribute, email them to
christinac@newcastlewa.gov
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The resolution declaring Newcastle's official incorporation hangs in the Council Chambers at Newcastle City Hall. We're excited to announce that at least three of the original Councilmembers will be joining us at Newcastle Days this year!
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The celebration marking the City's official incorporation was held on Oct. 1, 1994, at Lake Boren Park. According to the back of the flyer, there was a piñata, live music and, of course, a birthday cake.
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Photo Courtesy of the City of Newcastle
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Aug. 25, 2019
The anniversary editions of the Newcastle email newsletter are produced in partnership with the City's volunteer Community Activities Commission.
The main Newcastle email newsletter is still published the Friday before every regular City Council meeting. Learn more about the newsletter, see an archive of past newsletters and sign up to receive it at
newcastlewa.gov/newsletters
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