WEST READING, Pa. \u2014 It\u2019s shaping up to be a big weekend for businesses along Penn Avenue in West Reading.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a really big weekend for West Reading, specifically the West Reading Community Revitalization Foundation,\u201d said Brian Adams, owner of The Art Room.<\/p>\n
Adams helped organize many of the events happening throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n
The celebration kicks off Friday night with the monthly Second Friday event.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis month’s theme is Pot of Gold Hunt based around St. Paddy’s Day,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n
The event is a scavenger-style game.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are the little leprechaun pots. You’ll receive a map that guides you through the business district and you’ll try to solve the riddle for a chance to win gift cards,\u201d Adams explained.<\/p>\n
Then, on Saturday, the St. Patrick\u2019s Day celebration continues with a bar crawl.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have our annual St. Paddy’s Day Bar Crawl, which is called the Shamrock Shuffle. I think there’s about 10 to 11 bars that are included in that as well, which is a really cool thing and a big night for the bar industry on the avenue as well,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n
And the weekend wraps up Sunday with Chili Madness, a chili cook-off featuring more than 20 local businesses.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then Sunday is the Chili Fest, which I will be winning,\u201d joked Allison Shannon, owner of Allison Clothing Company.<\/p>\n
Visitors will be able to sample chili from the participating businesses and vote for their favorites.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will sample chili from the participating stores, picking their three top winners, and then submitting that as well so we can crown the chili restaurant and cook-off winners again,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n
Business owners say events like these help keep the avenue lively and bring people together.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re a vibrant town, and the more we can do to engage people and give them really cool experiences, that’s crucial,\u201d Shannon added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST READING, Pa. \u2014 It\u2019s shaping up to be a big weekend for businesses along Penn Avenue in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[63446,28018,28,128,130,129,30418,707,28017],"class_list":["post-137888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-allison-clothing-company","tag-brian-adams","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-st-patrick","tag-west-reading","tag-west-reading-community-revitalization-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}