More About May Day 2007

Join Federal Hill Main Street and Digital Harbor High School for the 3^rd Annual May Day event, this Saturday, May 12^th, in the South Baltimore Rec Center Park on the corner of Light & Cross Streets.  The purpose of May Day is to encourage everyone – businesses and residents – to Keep Federal Hill Clean and Green!

To enter the May Day Contest...  You don’t have to be at the Saturday event to participate in the May Day contest.  All you have to do is decorate your Federal Hill home or storefront with a creative floral arrangement.  (No dried or artificial flowers, please.)  Contact us at events@historicfederalhill.org or call 410-727-4500 no later than 12:00 noon on May 11th, give us your address and let us know that you are participating.  Members of the Federal Hill Garden Club will judge the entrants’ displays on the morning of May 12th, and the winner will receive a gift basket full of Federal Hill goodies!

This year’s May Day event will be even more special with the groundbreaking collaboration between Federal Hill Main Street and Digital Harbor High School.  Stop by the Rec Center Park this Saturday, and this is what you will find…

Federal Hill Main Street and Federal Hill Garden Club volunteers will start early mulching the park and planting three large pyrocanthus bushes. Digital Harbor High students will be planting hundreds of flowers. Digital Harbor High students will display the 8 planters they made for Light Street businesses. A new and exciting Public Service Announcement (PSA) created by Digital Harbor High media students to promote the Keep Federal Hill Clean and Green campaign will be premiered on an outside screen. There will be speechifying around 1:00pm, featuring Deputy Mayor Andy Frank, City Councilman Ed Reisinger, Digital Harbor High School Principal Brian Eyer, Baltimore Main Streets’ new Director, Donna Langley, and more. We will name the May Day award winner(s), who will receive a gift basket full of Federal Hill goodies – gift items and gift certificates. There will be free refreshments. Federal Hill Main Street has purchased 120 brooms, which volunteers and students will take door-to-door and give away to the business owners at the end of the event.  We will ask each business owner to sign a Clean and Green “pledge” to sweep their sidewalks and keep their storefronts clean. Baltimore City Channel 25 will be there to film the event, and other media is expected as well.