Big Walnut Civic Association launched

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Harlem Town­ship has had one for many years, Galena started one about four or five years ago, but until recently the Sun­bury area has not had a civic asso­ci­a­tion. All that changed last Wednes­day when Cindy Erndt and Theresa Drons­field vis­ited Sun­bury Vil­lage Coun­cil and for­mally announced the for­ma­tion of the Big Wal­nut Civic Association.

They empha­sized that the Big Wal­nut Civic Asso­ci­a­tion would serve res­i­dents of the entire Big Wal­nut area, and part­ner with exist­ing orga­ni­za­tions, clubs, and groups to enhance life in the com­mu­nity as a whole.

“Our upcom­ing events include Sun­bury Siz­zle & Sounds and, new this sum­mer, Movies on the Square,” Erndt said. “For Movies on the Square, we will be seek­ing busi­nesses who want to spon­sor the event with full adver­tise­ment for the event and recog­ni­tion through­out the night. We are hop­ing to have indi­vid­ual groups like 4-H clubs, booster clubs and sport teams who would like to run the con­ces­sion stand and receive all profit from sales for their organization.”

Drons­field said the civic association’s big event for its inau­gural year will be Sun­bury Siz­zle & Sounds. Siz­zle & Sounds has been a suc­cess the past two sum­mers and plan­ning is already under­way for this year’s August 24 event. Drons­field said that once again Sun­bury Siz­zle & Sounds would share the date with Galena Summerfest.

“We are tak­ing Siz­zle & Sound spon­sor­ships now and offer­ing 10 per­cent dis­counts if paper­work and money is turned in by May 1,” Drons­field said.

Erndt said get­ting the Big Wal­nut Civic Asso­ci­a­tion estab­lished would take some mon­e­tary support.

“We are start­ing from scratch and could use help,” Erndt said. “Any dona­tions would be greatly appre­ci­ated. For a dona­tion, we will post a business’s logo as a sup­porter of the Big Wal­nut Civic Asso­ci­a­tion on all our social media.

“We are also always look­ing for indi­vid­u­als or groups of vol­un­teers, events that could uti­lize our non­profit sta­tus, and ideas where we can be of ser­vice to our com­mu­nity,” Erndt added.

Vil­lage solic­i­tor David Brehm said a Big Wal­nut Area Civic Asso­ci­a­tion is an idea that, in his words, has been a long time coming.

“His­tor­i­cally in Sun­bury it’s been the vil­lage and the Cham­ber of Com­merce that would pick up the ball and orga­nize events,” Brehm said. “This is for peo­ple with the mind­set to step for­ward and make our com­mu­nity and the Big Wal­nut com­mu­nity better.”

Sun­bury Mayor Tommy Hat­field said he appre­ci­ates the Big Wal­nut Civic Asso­ci­a­tion lead­er­ship step­ping for­ward and part­ner­ing with the vil­lage parks depart­ment to do things that the vil­lage doesn’t have the time or resources to do.

“It’s mind-boggling the effort that some­thing like Siz­zle & Sounds takes,” Hat­field said. “They hope to see the civic asso­ci­a­tion as a vehi­cle for other peo­ple in our com­mu­nity and in east­ern Delaware County with other ideas to step up and get things done.”

For addi­tional infor­ma­tion go to Face­book and search for Big Wal­nut Civic Asso­ci­a­tion, or email < bwcivic@gmail.com >.

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