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SPRING FLING BEGINS MAY 15TH
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SPRING FLING ! MAY 15TH 2010 !!

  

The Chatham Merchants Association presents

Spring Fling      May 15, 2010

 

 

Come join us in

Celebrating Spring

And this great town we live in!!!

 

In Kate Gould Park

 

Kid’s Corner

11 am  – 3 pm   Kid’s Activities

Craft Center  -and-  Face Painting

 

Food & Beverages

11 am to 2 pm

Catered by the CMA, the Chatham Gift Card

& the Chatham Village Market

Burgers, hotdogs, sodas and more

 

 

The McMurphy’s

1 pm to 4 pm

Join the fun with this trio as they sing songs from standard oldies to classic rock with a heavy Jimmy Buffet influence.

Sponsored by the Chatham Merchants Association,

Chatham Properties Group, Le Petite Day Spa, and Puritan Cape Cod

 

         

Celebrate

Along  Main Street & Beyond

11 am to 2 pm - Hayrides …

embarking from Town Hall Parking Lot

 

 

 

Spring Fling Pet Show & Crazy Hat Parade

Prizes awarded for 1st, 2nd & 3rd in each category.

Location – Chatham Beach Dog, 416 Main

2 pm- Dogs             2:15 pm- Pet & Owner Look-alike Contest

 

After the show you and your pet will be invited to parade down

Main Street in your finest and craziest hats!

2:30 pm (immediately following the parade in the park) An Ice Cream Social sponsored by the Wild Goose Tavern.  Prizes awarded.

 

 

 

Our merchants welcome you with book-signings,

raffles and give-a-ways, refreshments, springtime sales

and maybe a few local characters----

Antiques at Post Office Square - Sidewalk Sale and enter a drawing for a       $50 Gift Certificate

Barn Hill Pottery, 46 Barn Hill Rd.

Bartholomew Gallery

Ben Franklin  

Cape Cod Five Cents Saving Bank-

                         8:30 am to Noon: refreshments and give-a-ways

Celestino’s Café- 11 am to 1 pm: Crepe making demos with Dylan;

Noon to 2 pm: mini-cupcakes giveaways; 2 to 4 pm: Wine tasting

Chatham Beach Dog-  3 to 5 pm Yappy Hour, drinks for adults and treats for their 4 legged friends!

The Chatham Candy Manor- a free raffle for a gift bag filled with all kinds of goodies and a Gift Certificate ……Please stop in to enter……

Chatham Hardware

Chatham Highlander Motel- 10% first night stay, 20% your second night, 30% your third night!

Chatham Jewelers

Chatham’s Liquor Locker 1221 Main- 2 to 5 pm:  a wine tasting featuring ‘tasty’ treats from Nantucket Wild Gourmet

Chatham Pottery, 2058 Main St.- 1 to 3 pm: Gill Wilson will demonstrate throwing pottery on the wheel and inviting anyone to try their hand at it!!!  Specials on spring planters too!

The Chatham Squire- take a break from all the festivities!

Chatham T Co. & Marge’s Place

The Children’s Shop

The Crooked Fence- annual Spring Fling raffle and food tastings!

Forest Beach Designer & Goldsmith

Gustare Oils & Vinegars- Special Tasting event 1 to 4 pm; raffle to win a special Gustare O & V Spring Fling ’10 Basket

Helene’s Gifts & the Wayside Gallery - add some sparkle to your spring wardrobe!  All our unique new jewelry 25% off May 14-16

Island Pursuit-gift certificate raffle and refreshments

Le Petite Day Spa

Mark August

Marley’s Restaurant, 1077 Main- opens at 5 pm -Yum!

The Mayflower Shop- Food samplings, raffle, surprises!

Nickerson Art Gallery- 10 am to 3 pm Sea Shell Art: create your own masterpiece, color a shell picture and decorate a frame to create your own original art

The Pampered Palate

Pentimento- pretty dresses for all occasions!

Picnic Fashion,726 Main- New and now Open! Celebrating Spring Fling with a Grand Opening.  Offering baskets, picnicware, accessories and vintage. During this event, receive a free organic cotton tote bag, perfect for packing your picnic essentials, with any purchase (while supplies last).

Puritan of Cape Cod- The first 25 Vineyard Vines customers receives a VV whale hat.  Register to win 1 of 2 Puritan Gift Cards.  Refreshments.

Simpler Pleasures- Refreshments and special home entertaining ideas

Sundance Clothing- Goodies served.  Raffle to win a pure hand knit three button wrap

Struna Gallery- Open House! New Works for 2010! Refreshments         served and a free drawing for a framed Chatham Poster 2010.

Tale of the Cod-  Please come visit us and sign up to win a Mariposa dory server; enjoy homemade baked goods and refreshments too!

TD Banknorth- refreshments and give-a-ways in the park including a flip ultra camcorder promotion and summer reading program.

Three Buoys

Tommy Dixon Collections

Where the Sidewalk Ends- raffle entries for a “Countdown to Summer!” children’s gift basket of toys and summer books in the new Children’s Annex!  Spring cookies on the new deck too! 

Book signing:  2 to 4 pm- Dr. David Burns signs his new memoir of life as a country doctor, “Taking a Deep Breath.”

The Wild Goose Tavern- stop in for a bite on the deck overlooking Main       Street or inside the cozy lounge

Yankee Ingenuity- Free raffle: set of 4 etched fish wine glasses and fish corkscrew.  Drawing Sun. May 16…need not be present to win.

Yellow Umbrella Books-  Book Signings! 

11 am to 2 pm: Annie Palmer author of The Little Cape Cod Witch Cookbook

2 to 4 pm:  Elizabeth Moisan author of “Master of the Sweet Trade -A Story of the Pirate Samuel Bellamy, Mariah Hallet, and the Whydah”

A Spring Fling Treasure Hunt:

Eleven Fish Bottles have been cleverly hid around town in and about our shops each filled with a message and/or gift for you!  Find one, look inside and follow the instructions! 

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          Enter to win a Wonderful Woman “Spring has Sprung!” basket

at any of these participating merchants:

* Barn Hill Pottery- pottery   *   Pampered Palate-gift certificate  

* Le Petite Day Spa-pedicure  *  Salon Fabulous- gift certificate & products  *  Chatham T. Co- flip flops

Come on, Treat Yourself!! 

-no purchase necessary-

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Chatham Middle School, Crowell Road presents:

A Steph Deferie original play

“A Tale of Two Cities” (based on the Dickens classic)

Sat. May 15 7:30 pm

Sun. May 16 2 pm

The Chatham Music Club

Goes to the Opera!

Sunday, May 16 at 3 pm

First Congregational Church of Chatham

Sponsored in part by The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod,

Chatham Cultural Council and the Cape Cod Five Cents

Saving Bank Charitable Foundation Trust

For tickets & info call 508.398.8811

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Spring Fling is possible through the volunteer time and creative efforts of the Chatham Merchants Association,

a division of the Chatham Chamber of Commerce.

 

The CMA Officers

Betsy Sommer, Chatham Beach Dog, president

Darci Sequin, Darci Sequin Real Estate, vice president

Diane Bronsdon, Chatham Village Antiques, secretary

Audrey & Bill Gray, Marley’s Restaurant, co-treasurers

Heather McGrath, Simpler Pleasures, president ex-officio

 

Board of Directors

Nancy Underhill, Chatham Wayside Inn

Amy Tagliaferri, The Cape Cod Chronicle

Janice Rogers, Cape Cod Magazine

Barbara Henderson, Ben Franklin 5 & 10

Richard Costello & Michael Wade, The Chatham Squire

Susan Williams, Barn Hill Pottery

Eric Linder, Yellow Umbrella Books

Susan Mabile, The Cape Cod Times

Chamber Representative

Scott Hamilton, Chatham Jewelers

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The 2nd Annual Spring Fling Fashion Show

Thursday May 27

11:30 am

The Chatham Wayside Inn

512 Main Street

Featuring a merchant’s market,

Clothing & accessories from Chatham’s shops

$40 per person inclusive

Luncheon, show, gift bag and donation to WE CAN

Call 508-945-5550

 

Amy Tagliaferri, Chatham Merchants Association 

 amyt@capecodchronicle.com

Or call Darci Sequin for more information: 508-274-6700

 

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