An eon for an all-volunteer group. The Downtown Council's auxiliary had 140 active members. By recruiting family, friends and co-workers, the group annually found upward of 1,000 warm bodies to sell tickets, pour beer and monitor exits, as well as set up and tear down booths, at Taste of Cincinnati. The food festival's co-producers plan to fill the UpDowntowners' ranks with other volunteers, staff members and paid concessionaires. But we can always use more volunteers.
Volunteers work cheap.
They have fun serving beer. They yuk it up with the customers. Everyone has a good time. Troubled times Taste of Cincinnati is this weekend. And, so far, a good time has not been had by all.