and letters coming in and and that's what a fun time i remember doing this gosh when i was back in seminary twenty years ago everything was v h s we had a little community t v program in due west south carolina and  was really do west of nothing it was a very very small town but it was the only thing cookin in town and so we used to do t v shows me on a golf cart with a v h s camera go on down the street and it was a lot of fun so it's good to a the definition for what a village is in colonial days is what you have a tavern you have a school you had a church and you had a store and what we call the village of in asia in the southern part of peter's township we have all of those and more soccer fields in the little league field museum so we've got all the elements of a village and i'm kind of been promoting at the last two years since we've moved in asia and it's going to come to kind of  maybe fruition or even bigger than larger than life then after hours chamber of commerce event that we're planning up to over the eighth it's going to be a great time peter's township timur commerce will be there but we're also a part of this after hours on thursday october the eighth and we're going to feature all the businesses and all the volunteer organizations that meet in the village venetia now remember also is kind of a suburb but this is in the confines of the village when you're on venetia road turning off the b bout you come to the country store and it's under new ownership now and these folks are just great people  there's an expanded line of goods the restaurant is growing there they have an outside deck now serving coca cola products these folks are really great folks so if you come to the country store tell them you saw it on community t v but they're going to be at our open house and handing out pepperoni rolls and if you haven't had one of their pepperoni rolls then it's just like mama pepperoni used to make it just just wonderful and also the open if you haven't been to the open restaurant it's below the post office in venetian they come from a great tradition of italian and german food they've all my goodness had pizza shops and german restaurants all over the north side of pittsburgh and now have settled here peter's and it's it's just got a great great menu they're going to be there with homemade potato pancakes which is one of their specialties and they'll be there on the eighth cooking about fresh for you all of this is going to happen school's going to host it and when you go to the second floor of the school then you'll meet the peters creek historical society folks peters creek history society has a museum there the museum of western expansion and it's in again in the confines of the village folks will be there in period dress from the seven hundred sixty s and they'll have some kind of fact i asked them at the meeting last week the historical society can you have snacks like they ate then you get to go to the third floor of the old venetian school and that's where the day or railroad club meets and you don't know anything about them it's just a great organization and it's kind of hosted by officer dave stand here from peter's township display that's now the carnegie science center it's along that line and they work on painting characters and figures of course assembling trains in the platforms and go along with it there's a scale model of the montu or the old montoya railroad and so that's kind of something historical to this area and so that'll be on the third floor and they'll have i think i'm pressing them to get like some kind of club sandwich which came from came from the railroad tradition did you know that's where clips that were just came from the club car off of railroad cars and so you can get a little bit of that and then you know kind of end up that five to seven period over in the mom's going to peel the apples and put it in the pie and and so that's going to kind of in the event there as we get towards seven o'clock that evening you can go up stairs and see the sanctuary we're doing gosh a wedding every other week now  doing these i don't even know if they're out in the river yet doing those kind of exercises but they've got all these machines getting ready for rowing competitions and they've just came and taken up residence at  and they've done some great landscaping outside that's kind of the trade for being a part of us and so we're glad to welcome them to our village rover to get some of the other groups that meet the senior citizens meet there twice a month brownie troop meets also in the school building and hopefully everybody will be a book on board for the after hours of events thursday october the eighth if you want to register for that i encourage you to call the peters township a chamber of commerce and their number is  seven to four nine four one six three four five or go to their website which is p t c o c dot org go there and you can register for this event we do need registration we're going to keep it open all the way up until october  seventh for the event that will happen on the next day it's going to be a great time to come to the village see all the fall foliage that's going to be in display at that time all the businesses you get the sample some great great food  at the school on that on that day you know i don't know if you will know a little history about the peters township it was one of the thirteen original townships that was granted in washington county hundred eighty one so it's a great history there peters township our little village of a nation goes all the way back to seven thousand nine hundred sixty five and that's a long time it was originally called thomas town because mr thomas owned the village tavern there curious look and they scratch our heads and i don't know we had a village yeah come on it's all it's like the foundation of peter's township right here in washington county so we invited to come call the chamber of commerce again at seventy four nine four one six three four five and make your reservations for that now all this is kind of just like an introduction to the christmas at the village of a nation an event that we started two years ago we have the tallest decorated christmas tree in all of washington county if you haven't seen it it's about forty foot tall it's right behind the church right behind the school with coach how many lights are on it but they'll be more lights on it this year than last year we start on december the fourth at six o'clock this year friday december the for the two days before the light at night that happens up here at the library and so it's kind of if you're in the lighting up trees and having festive celebrations for that first weekend of december come check us out on that friday night again start the event starts about six o'clock well actually like the tree about six thirty there's games for the kids there's crafts there's  lots of food the funnel cakes that night walking tacos hot chocolate smores it's just going to be a great festival kind of an outdoor festival so dress warmly now the school will be open the train display will be going on a children's choir from edwards methodist church will be there to share some caroling and all the festivities then at six thirty we throw the switch and light up the tallest christmas tree in washington county now adding to the events from last year is something new it is a traveling craft show from actually from appalachia from beverly kentucky it supports the redbird mission their red permission came into being around the  to help the impoverished folks of kentucky they had no school there they had no store for provisions and so the red bird mission was established by by generous folks and they continue in that generosity today hospital school clothing place there that folks can get supplies and they're bringing up an appalachian craft show for that week in december fourth fifth and sixth now what it is is the local artesian zz of that area beverly kentucky make lease crafts and it's everything from furniture i mean to scarves i mean it's just a wide variety of things they will come and be in the school for those three days and all the proceeds go back to support the school and the hospital and the mission outpost there in beverly kentucky so he's actually authentic things that folks are making they're bringing them up and that'll be a part of that week and it's new we didn't have that last year so that's fun now this will park kennel club came up and they brought some of their dogs that you can adopt they were here last year and we're looking for some other appetite opportunities for folks to come to one of the things one of the part of our new display for this year is one of the windows display out of macy's in downtown pittsburgh they closed two weeks ago i don't know if you knew that that was a i grew up in the north heels of pittsburgh macy's kaufman's downtown very near and dear to my heart and i was traveling through there and realized that they only had about another two weeks to go before the store would close and so i've rolled through there the sea what they were selling of this hundred years of a downtown pittsburgh tradition and so on they condensed everything down i think the three floors and had all the clothes and all these displays and then i saw one thing in particular that was kind of a carousel horse would you like to have a carousel horse for christmas at your house i saw this and a couple other painted characters and i thought well you know this could be kind of fun we could incorporate them into our village of any ship and then bought the backdrop for that went down and picked it up and it's going to be beautiful so that's part of the big surprise don't tell my kids that i got it because it's going to be month of december in the village town ramblers bluegrass will be their children's nativity music it's just going to be a great holiday spectacular of the whole month of december so we'll get a chance to put that up on our website which is rites u m c dot com and you can look at some of the events that are going to be coming up during the christmas season that will be december fourth fifth and open house on october the eighth that's a thursday night chamber of commerce is sponsoring that we're inviting three other chamber of commerce and also the washington county tourism bureau so if you have never been to the village we invite you to come you know it's that's kind of the the maybe not the buzz thing but that's where retailers and malls are going to today they started that process i guess about fifteen years ago maybe longer than that you know the big malls like monroeville century three kind of go stand anymore they go at the century three that was popular when i was a child but now the thing that all developers are into going back to the village concept well we've always had that s some footage in the village so you get a chance to see some of the just some of the businesses out there they will be glad to greet you always mention that you saw this on community public t v and they'll be you know maybe they'll throw in an extra dessert extra pepperoni go out on a present for something like that and say you know we saw richard on there and he spoke very highly of you so well so mention that to them that's all we got for today  n we're going to try to do a remote live broadcast maybe next week or in the coming weeks to show you a little bit more about the village getting ready for the up tobar ate the vent in a specially the december fourth fifth and sixth weekend that kicks off a light up night in the village of the nation so if you have any questions a phone number for rights united methodist church where i pastor is also a seven two four three four eight fifty seven eighteen ask for richard and i can explaining any of the the events at any time to you and also its rights you m c dot com and i think 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