Thursday, March 28, 2013
Event planned for adults Friday, children's egg hunt is Saturday
Adults will get the chance to hunt for candy and prize-filled eggs this year as part of Kent's annual Easter Egg Hunt. The Kent Parks and Recreation Department is holding an adult egg scramble Friday at 8:30 p.m. at Fred Fuller Park. Participants must be 18 or older. For the adult event, the cost is $10 and participants will get to use a flashlight to hunt in the dark for eggs. The eggs are filled with prize tickets for some big-ticket items, including: a bicycle from Portage Cyclery a tablet via PC Surgeons; a Cleveland Cavaliers hat autographed by Tristan Thompson; concert tickets to the Kent Stage and more. Nancy Rice, Kent Parks and Recreation supervisor, said they have more than $2,600 in prizes to give away at the event, which will …
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Fred Fuller Park
Middlebury Road Haymaker Parkway, Kent, Oh
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
$875,000 project included $700,000 AMATS grant
The new trail linking John Brown Tannery Park to Fred Fuller Park isn't officially open because construction is ongoing. Yet Kent residents are using the trail — which is about 95 percent finished — anyway. Kent Parks and Recreation Director John Idone said the new path, part of the countywide Portage Bike and Hike Trail, is meant to bring people who otherwise would not have access, such as seniors, people in wheelchairs and families with strollers, to the scenic banks of the Cuyahoga River. "Families are the big thing," he said. "It's essentially open now. We're trying to keep people off of it, but once the concrete went down it's really hard to keep people off of it." Idone said he understands runners and others who preferred the simple …
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Fred Fuller Park
Middlebury Road Haymaker Parkway, Kent, Oh
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John Brown Tannery Park
Stow Street, Kent, Oh
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Community organization is 315 members strong as it celebrates its second birthday.
In just two short years, members of the Kent Community TimeBank have exchanged a whopping 10,000 hours of service. And, along the way, the organization has become a “community” unto itself. That ever-growing community is made up of more than 315 people from all walks of life who hail not just from Kent but also towns such as Stow, Alliance, Peninsula and beyond. Among those members are more than a dozen businesses and organizations. Timebanking is a system of exchanging services on an hour-by-hour basis without the exchange of money. The types of services offered and requested are as varied as the members themselves. The social change movement values all members’ contributions equally — whether that member is a leaf raker or a physician. …
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Kent Community TimeBank
219 E Williams St, Kent, OH
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Monday, September 12, 2011
101 artists descended on Kent for the 18th annual art festival
Scattered showers didn’t prevent people from enjoying the 18th annual Art in the Park fair Sunday afternoon at Fred Fuller Park. There were 101 booths displaying original creations, live music and fair food. Art in the Park is sponsored by Kent Parks and Recreation and is supported by local businesses and volunteers. Attendance for the two-day fair averages about 15,000 to 18,000 visitors. Sunday was the last day of the two-day festival.
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Fred Fuller Park
Middlebury Road Haymaker Parkway, Kent, Oh
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Thousands fill Fred Fuller Park for annual festival
The first day of Kent’s 18th annual Art in the Park began Saturday with occasional raindrops that soon gave way to blue skies and sunshine. Thousands of visitors of all ages filled Fred Fuller Park from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. to browse among 101 booths displaying the work of regional fine artists, hear musicians perform on two stages and munch on food sold by vendors from bourbon chicken to Starbucks. With no fee for admission or for event parking available across the street on the west side of Middlebury Road, the art festival will continue from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. As music from country to jazz emanated from the main stage and the Back Wood stages, visitors also saw ice-carving, pottery and airbrush demonstrations and re-enactments of …
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Fred Fuller Park
Middlebury Road Haymaker Parkway, Kent, Oh
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
18th annual event brings artists from all over the region to Kent
Kent's 18th Annual Art in the Park will take over Fred Fuller Park this weekend for a two-day festival filled with local artists, musicians and food vendors. This year, 106 artists are scheduled to sign up and display their works. "Which is huge," said Nancy Rice, the event coordinator for Kent Parks and Recreation. "We usually are between 85 to 95." New youth artists tent New to Art in the Park this year is a young artists' tent. Young artists had to apply to be in the tent and will be divided into two categories for judging. The youth artists will be group in grades three through six and six through 12. Their works will be judged based on professionalism, presentation and other aspects. The winners will receive gift certificates to All …
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Fred Fuller Park
Middlebury Road Haymaker Parkway, Kent, Oh
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Hope Moskal
9:18 am on Thursday, March 28, 2013
Only children up to age 9? I remember hunting for eggs until I was at least 12. Of course, I believed in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy until I was 16. more ›