The newly formed Tyrone Merchants Association will be celebrating an \u2018Octoberfest\u2019 and a \u2018Soup Day\u2019 in the business district on Friday and Saturday, October 25 and 26. To make this event special and to help revitalize the downtown district there is a need to have vendors and organizations to participate.
\nThe Tyrone Merchants Association has decided to bring events back into Tyrone, not just downtown, but also try to get businesses in the Tyrone area to come downtown and be part of the celebrations and festivals that the town has been accustomed to in the past.
\nChairman Rob Orr stated, \u201cMany communities around us still have those events running, such as Alexandria with Hartzlog Day, and we really wanted to get some of our own events up and running again.\u201d
\nThe idea of the merchants association is to combine smaller businesses\u2019 monies to purchase more advertising at a discount rate and have a larger advertising campaign. If all the smaller businesses advertise on the same weekend, it would be much more meaningful and more effective as a unit rather than each business doing their own advertising at a more costly rate.
\nThe Octoberfest event will happen because of the efforts the merchants association has shown by influencing local Tyrone businesses to come together as one unit.
\nOrr explained, \u201cAs things began to actually become tangible and materialize and things started to happen within the association, the excitement grew, and the more the excitement grows, the easier it is for people to want to be involved in something that is exciting and happening.\u201d
\n\u201cIn the last two or three weeks the merchants association has come together strong, and I\u2019m really excited not just with Octoberfest, but what we do in the future as well,\u201d said Orr.
\nOctoberfest was a last minute organization by the Tyrone Merchants Association to have a fall event. The association wanted to have a weekend where all the merchants would have a sale at the same time – and with little time available, the association has made that a reality.
\nOrr stated, \u201cI\u2019m hoping see vendors from social organizations like churches, TACO, Kiwanis Club and Salvation Army, because they can participate in a fall event for fund-raising and also making downtown look fuller with all these people out in the streets selling different things.\u201d
\n\u201cOther vendors might be from area businesses like Dan Sprankle and Greg Hoover at Warriors Mark Auto World, who are bringing a car down to man for that weekend,\u201d said Orr.
\nHe added, \u201cThey\u2019re not lost out there in Warriors Mark now, they\u2019re in downtown Tyrone when there\u2019s a big event going on and people tend to remember that. We want to involve businesses in the Tyrone area.\u201d
\nOctoberfest will include the festival type sales, crafts, baked goods, hot dogs, and other festive items.
\nOn Saturday, the merchant association is gathering churches and organizations together to have a soup tasting contest as well we selling soup to raise money for church related organizations. There will be a couple of judges tasting all the soups and two money prizes will be awarded for the church or organization with the best tasting soup.
\nOrr said, \u201cIt\u2019s to encourage the churches and organizations to get involved and it will be fun as well. It\u2019s just a way for the merchants association to try to be a bigger part of the community.\u201d
\nThe association has been receiving a lot of outside support from the borough, the chamber, WTRN, The Daily Herald, and even the carpentry and art departments at Tyrone High School. The carpentry shop made the association pumpkin signs out of plywood and the art department painted them with \u2018Octoberfest\u2019 announced on the signs.
\n\u201cThat kind of support has just been tremendous and has just made things come together so well,\u201d said Orr.
\nThe merchants association will place the signs at all the exits around Tyrone this weekend so as people drive in and out of Tyrone they will see the signs announcing the Octoberfest event.
\nOrr explained, \u201cWe hope Octoberfest sets off more and more events, we would like to have four major events a year for every season, as well as draw in investors. As business and traffic grows, those weekends can be your four biggest weekends of the year, and that can mean the difference between a business closing its door and opening it up.\u201d
\n\u201cI think this will help encourage someone who\u2019s wanting to open a business in Tyrone to have a little more confidence in the traffic flow downtown,\u201d he added.
\nOctoberfest is just the beginning for the merchants associations efforts to help revitalize downtown Tyrone business. If the community pulls together like the merchants have, something special will continue to occur in Tyrone.
\n\u201cI really believe the events will grow bigger and bigger as the community becomes more supportive of them. Come and check things out and support your local Tyrone businesses,\u201d said Orr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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