Downtown Xenia is the place to be on the first Friday of every month May through September. First Fridays in downtown Xenia kick off the fifth year on May 3, 2013 from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m.
There will be free music to enjoy at the Greene County Courthouse performed by The Hathaways. Lawn chairs and picnic blankets are welcome. There will be children’s activities at the library, at the City of Xenia booth, and a bounce house in the Montgomery Insurance and Investments lot.
Head on over to X*ACT for their Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting of the new Xenia Arts Center at 7:30. At the Downtown Xenia Now
booth you can get information about things that are happening in your hometown and buy some pretty cool T-Shirts and mugs. The athletically inclined can bicycle into town and park your bicycle at the
beautiful new Bicycle Plaza at 3rd and Detroit. The Greene County Historical Society will hold their monthly historic tour of downtown commercial buildings, departing from the Courthouse (E. Main St.
side) at 6:30 p.m. The Xenia Area Young Professionals will be hosting a corn hole tournament on the patio at Willie’s Sports Bar to raise money for the anti-bullying program at Xenia Community Schools.
These are just a few of the things you will find going on Downtown Xenia!
The First Fridays events, now in its fifth year, continue to grow and flourish with repeat vendors and attendees each month returning for family-friendly fun and unique shopping opportunities.
The First Fridays events feature numerous food vendors at the Whiteman Parking Lot Food Court at the corner of E. Main and Whiteman. This year visitors can pick up a delicious meal of grilled chicken, pork chops, hot dogs, and other fair food as well as enjoy downtown festivities.
First Fridays run from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. and will continue through September 2013. “This year we decided to shorten our event to five months to avoid numerous school conflicts, short days, and cold of
October” said volunteer co-coordinator, Heidi Hilderbrandt of The Flower Stop.
First Fridays is organized by the Downtown Xenia Now group (formerly Xenia Downtown Revitalization Committee.) For more information or to download an application for vendor space, visit their website at
http://www.xenianow.org. To learn about volunteer opportunities or other activities of the Downtown Xenia Now Committee, go tohttp://www.xenianow.org or their Facebook page at
http://www.facebook.com/xeniadowntown and “like” them
