Discover Lansdale seeks nominees
As the biggest day of the year in Lansdale approaches, borough officials are asking residents for nominees for one of the borough’s most prestigious awards.
“Nominations are open for the Lansdale Lifetime Achievement Award, so if you feel you know someone who has contributed a lifetime of service, at least 25 years or more, and has made a change or a big difference in this community, please send in nominations,” said Mary Fuller, president of local nonprofit Discover Lansdale.
Each year since 2012, Discover Lansdale has accepted nominations from the public for the lifetime award, which is chosen by a steering committee comprised of local business owners, residents, and previous winners.
“We will accept nominations
until July 15, and usually at the beginning of August we announce who the winner will be,” Fuller said.
Those honored with the award in the past include:
• 2012: Jay Daveler, longtime Fairmount Fire Company chief and fire marshal.
• 2013: Carl Saldutti, Lansdale Borough’s Parks and Recreation director.
• 2014: Stephen Frederick, North Penn High School principal and Marching Knights band leader.
• 2015: Dick Shearer, longtime Lansdale Historical Society president.
• 2016: Margie Booz, owner of Chantilly Floral Boutique and former Lansdale Business Association president.
Nominations can be made via the borough’s website www.Lansdale. org, Discover’s website www.DiscoverLansdale.org or by contacting Fuller directly at MFuller@lansdale. org. Each year, the winner is honored during the borough’s Founders Day festivities, which will occur all
day on Aug. 26 and mark the anniversary of the borough’s incorporation in 1872.
Another new event on Founders Day is also looking for participants: a new “Moving Through the Years” vintage car parade will be held starting at 11 a.m. for drivers interested in cruising through the town.
Drivers will depart from Whites Road park and head north on Broad Street to
Vine Street, then west to Wood Street, and back on Main Street, along the part of Broad Street called “The Speedway” by residents in the 1920s since it was the widest, straightest, and best paved road in the area. Anyone with a car of model year 1972 or earlier will be able to register via forms that will be available on Discover and the borough’s websites and social media pages closer to the date.
Other confirmed events
on Founders Day so far include open houses of various borough buildings, the annual Lansdale Festival of the Arts show and sale at Memorial Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and an evening fireworks show.
Discover Lansdale is also looking for volunteers to assist in its project to repair and restore the borough freight station, which is located at Broad and Vine Streets, was built in the early 1900s, and acquired by Discover last year. Several Saturday sessions have already been held in May and June for volunteers to help with cleaning the freight station, and Fuller said more details will be announced soon on future cleanup dates.
“Even though we’re three-for-three with rain on the days we’re doing volunteer work at the freight house, we still have a good crowd able to work indoors,” she said.