Third Thursdays help make downtown area fun
Page 4 • Wednesday, October 7, 2015 • The Hammonton Gazette
THURSDAY, from Page 1
celebrate the roaring days of the 1920s in
the downtown area. the Noyes Museum
was involved in the evening and offered 25
percent discounts to anyone who came inside wearing a costume. “third thursday”
not only provides cheap, fun entertainment
for the whole family, it also attracts business into local stores.
Mainstreet Hammonton’s executive Director, Cassie iacovelli, assists with much
of the planning for the “third thursday”
events.
“We plan to continue this monthly event
with themes. We have the rest of the year
planned and will begin focusing on 2016 in
the next couple of months. at this time,
we’re solidifying our sponsorships which
provide us the resources to offer entertainment and promotional materials … i am
very happy with the buy-in from the downtown businesses. When we first started this
event, most downtown stores were closed.
Over the years, we have seen a tremendous
improvement,” iacovelli said.
One of those downtown business owners
is Linda Cashan. Cashan owns Casciano
Coffee Bar and Sweetery.
“there is always a mix of regular customers as well as new ones, which is good
for any retail event. Stores and restaurants
can really count on it as a business booster.
My business is always very busy during the
event, so it works for me … We try to keep
the dollars spent that evening focusing on
the stores and restaurants that work so hard
each day to provide the beautiful shopping
district we now have … as a committee, we
are happy with the merchant-initiated retail
promotions that have been successful this
past year or two. We have Boutique Week,
touch a truck and our latest to roll out,
Stay open ‘til 8 p.m. all of these were initiated by downtown businesses with almost
Kramer Hall to offer
program on cooking
healthy foods on Oct. 15
HaMMONtON—Kramer Hall, Stockton
University’s instructional site, will present
“food for thought: Healthy foods to Savor”
on Oct. 15, part of Hammonton’s third
thursday theme of “Savor the Season.”
Laura engelmann, a health educator with atlantiCare, and Chef
Christina Martin of Kitchen 19, a
Hammonton culinary school, will
offer a free program at 6 p.m. at
Kramer Hall, 30 front St. in downtown Hammonton.
Kitchen 19 is involved in atlantiCare’s Growing Green Chef Council
and works with atlantiCare in providing healthy demonstrations at
local schools and community
groups.
atlantiCare’s Growing Green initiative is designed to build healthy
communities and address root
causes of chronic diseases by increasing the consumption of healthy
foods through creating more access
points for fresh, local produce.
engelmann is a health educator
for atlantiCare’s Healthy Schools,
Healthy Children program. She is
presently the community health and
wellness manager. engelmann received her B.S. in Social Work from
Stockton University and her Master’s in Health administration from
University of Phoenix.
Martin is a Philadelphia-based
vegan chef and healthy food advocate. She has degrees in both Business and Culinary arts from rowan
University and the academy of
Culinary arts at atlantic Cape Community College, respectively. She
enjoys sharing her love for cooking
through educating and has taught
community education classes as
well as being a guest chef instructor
at Drexel University.
Martin will offer a cooking
demonstration to promote her plantbased cooking style and her upcom-
Halloween
Parade set
for Oct. 28
HaMMONtON—the Kiwanis
Club of Hammonton will sponsor
the 40th annual Halloween Parade
on Wednesday, October 28 at 7
p.m. the raindate will be thursday, October 29. Miss New Jersey
Lindsey Giannini will be the grand
marshal of the parade.
the parade will originate at Orchard Street and egg Harbor road
and then proceed up Bellevue avenue to the atlantic County Human
Services building. three marching
bands are expected to participate in
addition to several floats.
ing classes at Kitchen 19 this fall.
She will be making a butternu