The Grand Marshal Car, for former Mayor Randy Casale, will be in this Corvette, sponsored by Pedego. You’ve seen Pedego on Rte 52 and it’s where some of you (now more of you) will get your electric bikes from! They also sell cars! Mama Cervone is in seen in the photos. She was recalling the days when they used to lend the Cervone towing truck to their elementary school for the float.
Spirit of Beacon Day
Sunday, September 25, 2022
11-4pm Music and Community Tables
1-2pm Parade
Another sign UP!
This one has the programming of the day. Thank you Key Food Beacon for allowing us to put the sign in your building! Junior Mo Dabashi, their Builder With The Truck Full Of Gear, and JB Said.
Spirit of Beacon Day is this Sunday, September 25, 2022!!!
11am-4pm Music and Community Tables
1-2pm Parade
Flyers! We need volunteers to pass flyers out to storefronts who will take them and lampposts! We left a few for you in Accuprint (next to Isamu and Ziatun and Maxs On Main.
Ask for the Spirit of Beacon flyer bags and take a few to the places you go to help spread the word.
Send us a picture and we will repost! Thank you!
New Sponsor Alert!
Verplanck Auto - you are always at everyone’s service! Thank you for sponsoring the Spirit of Beacon Day at the Mountain ($1,000) level!
Spirit of Beacon Day:
Sunday, September 25, 2022
11am-4pm Music and Community Tables
1-2pm: Parade
We have a banner!
We weren’t allowed to hang it across Main Street anymore, so Key Food Beacon generously offered their roof to hang it. Now people are asking about the date! Their wheels are turning!
Sunday September 25, 2022.
11-4 Music and Community Vendor Tables on Main Street
1-2pm Parade down Main Street
Thank you Junior, JB Said, Noberto and Angel for helping the overall installation to get it up there. Thank you to Remark Printing Company for magically expediting this order early when you said it was impossible. Thank you Brand New Dei for the logo design and banner design, and Allie Bopp Design and Katie James, Inc. for finishing and submitting to print. Not possible without our top Beacon of Light Sponsors! Sara Mikulsky, Round House, Playmaker University Pumas, Hudson Valley Goldsmith, and Key Food Beacon!
The flyers are ready!
Sunday, September 25, 2022!!!
11-4 is Community Vendor Tables + Music at Veterans Place, Cross Street, and things to do at Salvation Army Lawn for Kids, and Howland Cultural Center.
1-2pm is Parade. Starts at Main Street and Wolcott and goes to Tioronda.
We need Spirit Volunteers to help pass out these flyers! To storefront windows who accept them, and lampposts.
Bags of flyers are in Accuprint intended for Beacon, Wappingers, Fishkill, Cold Spring, Poughkeepsie.
Go in and pick up (located next to Ziatun and Isamu.
Take what you need and you think you can distribute. Even if you work at Chuck E Cheese or something, post it there!
Finalizing the musical lineup for the Main Stage at Veterans Place with these two! Goldee Green has been an integral part of this Spirit of Beacon Day, pushing the planning details along every day with Katie James, Inc. and A Little Beacon Blog!
A reporter by nature (you’ve read her articles in the Beacon Free Press) she is the front woman for her band GG and the Shades, is a teacher, and producer. She was one of the first Spirit Coordinators we could pay this year for her hard work, thanks to our donors and sponsors.
Bosco we are blessed with to use his stage and tents as he has lent in years past. This year, the City of Beacon is paying him to rent the stage, tents and sound and Bosco will be running sound and performance transitions on the day. Bosco and the Storm will be closing the day with their energetic performance - despite the heavy lifting they are doing to set up the stage and keep everyone running smoothly!
Releasing the musical lineup to you soon!
The Spirit of Beacon Day Parade is Sunday, September 25th, 2022. The Committee has posted directions here on how parade participants can get to the parade when lining up. Only people who have registered in advance and been approved can be in the parade.
Even if you’ve been in the parade for years and years. We just want to know to expect you, and to get you in our spreadsheet and on our clipboard. :) Deadline keeps being extended, so apply here!
Dear Parade Participants:
We are so excited to see you at the Spirit of Beacon Parade on Sunday, September 25, 2022. Thank you so much for registering. It's a big commitment and effort on your part, and the Beacon community appreciates it! Thank you for your patience as we get this information to you.You will be assigned a position in the parade lineup. That information is forthcoming as we continue to curate the registrations who come in.
Meanwhile, here are some directions. Videos on how to drive to these points are above.
TIME:
12:00pm: Lineup is at 12pm Sunday, September 25th, 2022 along Wolcott Avenue down the south side (alongside the Police Station and the new apartments).
1pm: Parade starts at 1pm.
Bring water. You'll get thirsty. There will be a porta-potty for you near the Visitor's Center.
CONTACT PERSON:
Our Parade Director this year is John Galloway. Many of you know him as "John John." He served as a Board Member for Beacon City School District, and is a founding member of Melanin Unchained. He will be working with other Spirit Parade Volunteers. Parade Participants have been given his text to use sparingly with questions.
PARADE ROUTE:
Goes from Main Street and Wolcott Avenue (Bank Square), to Tioronda and Main Street (Howland Cultural Center)
Lineup is along Wolcott Avenue.
LINEUP:
VEHICLES IN PARADE: If you have a vehicle in the parade, you will park on Wolcott (aka 9D) in your assigned spot. We will do our best to get you to your assigned spot, but if you don’t get there, that’s OK. You will be in the parade no matter if you’re out of your order or not.
If you are walking, but driving yourself to get closer in order to walk, please park on a side street. You will not park on 9D. You will park on a side street and walk.
If you're coming from the mountain side:
Drive up Teller Avenue, past the Beacon Daily, and turn onto Wolcott Avenue towards Beacon Dental. Continue driving, and you'll be met by a Spirit Volunteer.
If you're coming from the I-84 side:
Drive down Wolcott Avenue, and take a right on Beekman Street. Circle round, passing Brett's Hardware, passing the train station, passing Dia, and come out on Wolcott Avenue. Take a left on Wolcott. Continue driving, and you'll be met by a Spirit Volunteer.
If you're walking:
Come down Main Street or Wolcott Avenue to the Visitor's Center. A Spirit Volunteer will meet you.
The Parade will be honorably led by The Carmen Ramputi Detachment 861 - Marine Corps League - with Herold Delamater.
Our Grand Marshal for our 45th year is Former Mayor Randy Casale.
PRO-TIPS:
Bring water. This day may be hot (or not!).
If it rains, we are encouraging rain coats. Only for monsoons and micro-bursts are we going to a rain date of the following Sunday.
Please let us know of any questions,
The Spirit Of Beacon Day Committee
Former Mayor Randy Casale has accepted the Spirit of Beacon Committee’s humble request for him to be this year’s Spirit of Beacon’s Grand Marshall of the Parade, for our 45th year!
Randy Casale is a Beaconite who served the City in various ways, including as Beacon’s Highway Superintendent for 16 years, City Council member, and as Beacon’s Mayor. Randy told a friend once that he always wanted to be the Mayor of Beacon. That is how deep his commitment to the city was and is. Randy will always let you know what he thinks, and while your debate with him may get spirited, you will both know where you stand. Next day, friends again. As Mayor, Randy may have pursued a direction, but after he heard from the public who attended City Council Meetings to voice their opinions during Public Comment sessions, Randy was known to change his position based on his constituents.
Today, Randy has not slowed down. He can be spotted walking all over this city, and currently works in the The Roosevelt Bar. We only took a minute of his time to get his acceptance as he was preparing for a Friday evening behind the bar, serving the weekend crowd. Thank You Randy!
Spirit of Beacon Day is *not possible* without our Spirit Coordinators! Stephen Claire of Beacon Music Factory is our Spirit Music Coordinator for the stage at Cross Street. He is also a sponsor.
We locked in the 12x12 stage and tents today with Durants Party Rentals. Stephen is working with our central Spirit Music Coordinator Goldee Green of GG and the Shades to create the lineup, sound checks, transitions, etc. We wanted to help spread the Spirit of Beacon to either end of town.
Look for performances by Beacon Performing Arts Center and Ballet Arts Studio (all of us are named Katie, so that’s a trip for organizing this). Gwen Laster’s jazz ensemble and Beacon Music Factory students. We booked Aaron Verdile for his sound equipment. Thank you Nick Page for letting us use the property, and the new store for working with us to be there and use their power.
September 25 is almost here! Woo!
Making the Table arrangements now! Jeana is using her landscape architecture skills to modify the Table Map, and has added color coding (joy) and porta potty locations.
She will be helping vendors on the day to find their spot. Vendors bring their own table, chairs and tents. Have you registered yet? We know! Time is ticking. Even A Little Beacon Blog hasn’t registered yet, but just did. Highlands Current was on it early. St. Rocco’s just registered, and Slater Chemical just register.
After School Clubs: we REALLY want you to have your own tables! Like Kaleidoscope, Drama, Textile, etc. Lets everyone see how awesome you are!
Yay to everyone who registered so far. Still open.
See you Sunday September 25, 2022 from 11-4pm
City of Beacon Police Chief Sans Frost was kind enough to take us around to different porta potty location points. We want to make them convenient to you, and he wants to make sure we can find a spot that isn’t a parking spot, because he *really* wants to make all of the city’s free parking lot spaces available to you… Stay tuned for a fill list of free parking lot spaces in Beacon!
With his help, we have a great porta potty plan! Volunteer Jennifer Garfield-Abrams has excitedly taken this on to help coordinate!
Oh the things you don’t necessarily think of right away but are super important!
One of everyone’s biggest concerns for this 45th Year of the Spirit of Beacon Day was the bagpipe bands. Beacon must have the bagpipes! Thankfully, both the Hudson Highlands Bagpipe Band and the Amerscott Bagpipe Band are available for our day!
Thanks to our early sponsors, Key Food Beacon and The Roundhouse, we were able to heavily pursue both bands in the middle of summer vacations to secure that enough bagpipers would be available to perform in Beacon’s 45th Spirit of Beacon Day on Sunday, September 25, 2022. Bagpipers do travel to England every now and again to participate in bagpipe things, so we were lucky that they were available this particular weekend.
Checks have been written, contracts signed. We’re on!
Raven Rose! Thank you so much for coming on as a Spirit Sponsor ($250)! You support the Beacon community always and left us up!
Your flowers are beautiful, and your arrangement workshops a must-do! Relax yourself by walking into Raven Rose and picking a household gift for you or a friend. Located across the street from one of the official Spirit of Beacon Pop-Up Experience locations, Howland Cultural Center.
Spirit of Beacon Day starts at 11am with music, then parade starts at 1pm, then music and fun to close it at 4pm. Mark your calendar! SAVE THE DATE!
Met with the Chiefs of the City of Beacon (Police and Fire) and Lieutenant Walden and City Administrator Chris White to catch up on coordination for this Big Day — to visualize where the parade participants need to pull up on Wolcott.
The Police team were excited to use their fancy and fun Smart Board to pull up the Google Map. Felt just like we were in the elementary schools (have read to the kindergartners), who also love their Smart Boards for showing all the things.
We’re going to make you a map so that parade participants can see where to pull up! City Administrator tried to duck out of photo, but we got him! He was there!
Sunday, September 25th, 2022. Tell your friends!
Pictured: Chief Sans Frost pointing, and Lieutenant Jason Walden reinforcing street closure plans. Spirit of Beacon’s Treasurer and Spirit Coordinator Nickeya Allen is seated right, and Fire Chief Gary VanVoorhis is seated back.
Thanks team, Katie James, Inc., for making these detail maps!
The Spirit of Beacon day has been in full swing for 45 years as a solution to bringing young Beaconites in to quell racial unrest that had bubbled over between the youth in Beacon High School and the community in the late winter/early spring of 1977 in Beacon. For its 45th year, we are creating a new logo in celebration!
In most of that time, there was no logo to brand the day. The focus was on everyone else’s logo to promote organizations and non-profits who provide services. When Gwenno James took over as the Chair of the Spirit of Beacon Day years ago, she recognized the need for a logo, and a volunteer and professional illustrator, Josh McKible, designed one.
This year, after Gwenno stepped down to accept new responsibilities at her job, the new Committee wanted a new direction for the logo. A logo design contest was launched, and the assignment given.
We are excited to announce that we have a winner!! Kim Dei Dolori.
Direction for how to design the logo was as follows:
Community: Reflect Beacon as a community.
Location: Reflect Beacon in its unique location between the mountain and the river, with buildings and houses in between. Consider using illustrations of a mountain, river, apartment building and house.
Colors: Colors can reflect the Beacon City School District colors, but do not have to. The color purple has been mentioned as a desired color, in addition to earthy colors like green, brown, red, and blue. No need to base your colors off of this website. These colors are temporary and will be changed once the logo is selected.
We wanted to show you everyone who entered, to help give them a lift in their promotion.
Kelsey R. Bradley
@kelseyrbradley
Tatyana Smith
@whatuplove
Terri Sileno
@terrisileno
Kim Dei Dolroi
www.brandnewdei.co
@brandnewdei.co
When Kim submitted, she right away explained that she did not include the word “Day” in the logo. “I figured, while we only have one official day to celebrate, the Spirit of Beacon lives on always and can be represented any day.” The Spirit of Beacon Committee agreed.
In terms of Kim’s inspiration: “I loved the direction and challenge of showing our town tucked between the mountains and the river and had so much fun coming up with this design. You’ll see nods to iconic Beacon landmarks and the playful, quirky font gives a warm feeling of nostalgia with a handmade quality. I hope you enjoy it!”
The Committee brought on another talented Beaconite designer, Allie Bopp, to aid in the voting process. Our Treasurer, Nickeya Allen, wondered about the brown sun, so as a group we asked Kim for a few variations. Meanwhile, we did some research on color theory, and discovered we very much liked the brown.
Said Nickeya from her research: “I read here that Brown creates a sense of stability and support, which aligns totally with the motto of Spirit of Beacon Day!” We asked Kim for a few variations, which she took graciously and quickly, but we ultimately came back to this original design.
Kim is a graphic designer and art director living in Beacon and wants to work with more local organizations and small businesses. She says: “I love meeting new people and creatively connecting with others.” Take a peek at more of her work at her website, and pass her and all of these designers on to your friends.
Shout-Out: The team at Katie James Inc. provided art direction on this design.
PlaymakerUPumas have signed on as a top level Beacon of Light Sponsor of the Spirit of Beacon Day 2022! PlaymakerUPumas is a basketball program run from the gym inside of the Old Beacon High School (now known as the KUBE Art Center owned by Ethan Cohen the art collector, not the film director).
Kids who participate in PlaymakerU’s program love it, and attend camp in the summer. The Spirit of Beacon really appreciates their support and attempts to reach the young people in this area.
New to town but not to the Hudson Valley, Hudson Valley Goldsmith has signed on as a top level Beacon Of Light Sponsor for the Spirit of Beacon Day as a way to say “Nice to meet you, and we support you!” to the community. Their storefront is located at 226 Main Street, formerly the auto repair shop, in what is now totally new storefront space.
Owned by David & Sara, they first started Hudson Valley Goldsmith in 2010 while traveling the East Coast to sell jewelry at juried craft shows. Eventually, in fall 2013, they opened a small store and workshop in New Paltz, NY. The business quickly outgrew the space and, in 2015, they moved the store to Main Street in New Paltz. After succeeding there, Hudson Valley Goldsmith added a storefront location in Beacon, NY on Main Street, near Homespun.
Today, along with their team of goldsmiths, they create more than 1000 custom pieces a year, as well as sell the work of about 20 other artists. Do come in to browse around, to see the array of precious styles they carry.
The Roundhouse signed on as a top level Beacon Of Light Sponsor of Spirit of Beacon Day’s 45th Year! Theme: “The Origin Story.” The Roundhouse is one of our longest financial supporters. We couldn’t have done it all these years without their support. Thank you for investing in the community!
A huge Thank You to Sara Mikulsky who has signed on as a top level Beacon of Light Sponsor for the Spirit of Beacon Day! “Looking forward to a fund day, and event!” she said. Her sponsorship certainly helps make that happen.
Sara is based in Beacon and the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Nestled inside of Beacon Pilates Studio, Sara Mikulsky Wellness Physical Therapy offers holistic healthcare including physical therapy, personal fitness, nutrition coaching and ergonomic assessment. The Beacon studio location offers one-on-one care with Dr Sara Mikulsky, a Doctor of Physical Therapy. She brings over 20 years of expertise in the health and fitness industry. The practice specializes in treating arthritis, back pain, post surgical, sports injuries, tendinitis and more.