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A real chance to celebrate

The city’s annual week of festivals comes to an end Saturday with the Steubenville Dean Martin Hometown Celebration.

It’s billed by organizers as a day of fun, food and music, music, music, and it gets under at 9 a.m. with the Dino Dash 5K run. That will be followed at 9:15 a.m. by the Martin Meander 1-mile event and at 9:45 a.m. with the kids’ 1K fun run.

Activities will be centered in and around Fort Steuben Park on Third Street and will include a classic car cruise-in from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There also will be plenty of activities for children, with games, mini-train rides and more set up in the park area as part of the street fair atmosphere that will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Trolley rides around the downtown will be available, and there will be open houses held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Grand Theater on Fourth Street and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Jefferson County Historical Museum on Franklin Avenue.

The Berkman Amphitheater will come alive with music when Flashback takes the stage at 4:30 p.m. The Joe Scalissi Dean Martin Tribute Show will begin at 5:45 p.m. and Beatlemania Magic will perform at 7 p.m.

Also beginning at 7 p.m., North Fourth Street in front of Leonardo’s Coffeehouse will come to life with classic music from the 1950s at the Flashback Street Dance.

The cost is $5 per person, with children 10 and under admitted free. Proceeds will help the Harmonium Project to continue to be able to present events such as First Fridays on Fourth.

The dance itself will follow a fundraising marathon in which one song will be played for 24 hours, beginning at 8 p.m. Friday.

Proceeds will help in the project’s efforts to raise $10,000 for a new roof for its downtown Steubenville home.

Saturday’s events will be a great way to end what always is one of Steubenville’s most exciting weeks of the year. It’s a five-day period that includes the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church’s Greek Food Festival, which opened Tuesday and runs through Friday, and the Dean Martin Festival at the Spot Bar, which starts tonight and concludes Saturday.

They are quality activities which help to highlight the good things in our community.

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