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ATTENTION FLAT ROCK BUSINESSES! Christmas Passport Info for 2020

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ATTENTION FLAT ROCK BUSINESSES!

Flat Rock Our Hometown along with the Flat Rock DDA (Downtown Development Authority) are once again presenting the 2020 Christmas Passport Program! The format is a little different this year due to COVID-19:

  • There are NO ENTRY FEES for any Flat Rock Business to join the program
  • ALL Flat Rock businesses can participate
  • Each business that participates will receive a supply of customer cards to punch, a window decal if needed and be given a unique punch
  • Customers can get cards at participating businesses, City Hall, the Community Center and the Library
  • Customers complete cards with punches from businesses as in years past
  • We ask participating businesses to donate a gift/product for the Grand Prize basket
  • The program begins on November 2, 2020 and ends on December 16, 2020

Businesses, if you have any questions after reading the information including the 2020 Christmas Psssport Rules below, direct questions to the Flat Rock Our Hometown or the  Downtown Flat Rock Facebook pages or you can CLICK HERE.

 

FLAT ROCK 2020 CHRISTMAS PASSPORT RULES

  • Customers look for the Flat Rock Our Hometown window decal at local businesses
  • A full listing of participating businesses are available online at:
  • Visit local participating Flat Rock businesses and complete the six (6) punches on the Passport Card
  • Customers must have punches from at least three (3) different businesses on the Passport Card
    • You can get up to three (3) punches from one business
    • The other three (3) punches must be from different businesses
    • Remember, six (6) different stamps enters you into a drawing for the GRAND PRIZE (basket filled with gifts from all participating businesses!)
  • Get bonus stamps on Small Business Saturday weekend from November 27-29, 2020
  • Fill out your name, address, phone number and email on the back of the Passport Card
  • Drop your completed Passport card off at City Hall by December 17, 2020 at 12 noon
  • The drawings will be held on December 18, 2020 for the following prizes:
    • Grand Prize Basket with a gift from all participating businesses
    • First Prize: $500 in Flat Rock Dollars
    • Second Prize: $250 in Flat Rock Dollars
    • Third Prize: $100 in Flat Rock Dollars
    • Flat Rock Dollars can be redeemed at any participating business
  • Prizes will be awarded at the December 21, 2020 (virtual?) City Council meeting
    • Customers are not required to be present, but are asked to attend the meeting if they are notified that they have won, on Monday, December 21, 2020 at 7:30p.m. Instructions will be provided when notified that you have won!

 

THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING LOCAL! THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING FLAT ROCK!

 

Flat Rock DDA and Flat Rock Our Hometown supporting Flat Rock Businesses

Flat Rock PlayScape 20 Year Celebration This Saturday

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The entire community is invited to the 20 year Celebrations of the PlayScape Build. More than 1,000 people volunteered in 1997 to build the playground. The gathering takes place Saturday Sept. 30, 2017 from Noon until 2 PM at City Park on Gibraltar.

You can come and celebrate with your friends and neighbors who were all part of the build 20 years ago.

The committee is also plan to bury a time capsule in the ground and hold a dedication of a memorial to former Mayor Richard C. Jones, who instrumental in starting the project.

A children’s handbell choir will entertain under the direction of Tim Hammar.  Mr Hammar was teacher at Bobcean Elementary School. A video of the construction 20 years ago and photos taken also will be shown in the warming building next to the pond.

Organizers also will unveil a free little library to be located in city park. Two other site of the libraries will be announced later.

Cider and doughnuts will be served.

Skating Rink Now Open at City Park

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Flat Rock City Park Skate Rink
Flat Rock City Park
Skate Rink

If you or your kids are looking for some Fun, Free activity you can spend your time at Flat Rock City Park where you can enjoy hours of fun on the Fountain-Skate rink.   Recreation Director Joan Pawlukiewicz said the ice rink behind the library is up and running.  And the warming building is open from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday plus 12 to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.  With the kids home for the holiday break, you and your family can spend some family time together and it is FREE.  See you there.

FYI– As a reminder. Ice rink is not meant for playing hockey.

 REMEMBER –SHOP LOCAL- -SHOP FLAT ROCK

DDA members light up Garden Boulevard

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Flat Rock DDA Member Tracy Cooper
Flat Rock DDA Member Tracy Cooper

Members of the Flat Rock Downtown Development and their families help add lights to the two blocks of Garden Boulevard

DDA District Holiday Lights
DDA District Holiday Lights

between Gibraltar and Huron River.  The bushes on both sides of the boulevard and a couple of trees were wrapped with white lights along with two wreathes.  On the Gibraltar side Lighted Christmas Packages and along with red and green spot lights, give the area a holiday look.   Volunteer members of the DDA are, Joe Pagano, Peg Angelos, Wendy Smith, Tracy Cooper, Michael Crowder, Jim Martin, Anita Twardesky, Shayla Hopper and permanent members Mayor Jonathan Dropiewski and David Grunow.

Have a Great Holiday Season and Remember SHOP LOCAL – SHOP FLAT ROCK

Flat Rock Historical Society Honors our Veterans

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Flat Rock Historical Society-Smith Hotel Parlor
Flat Rock Historical Society-Smith Hotel Parlor

On Sunday November 10, 2013 during their monthly open house, the Flat Rock Historical Society decorated the Smith Hotel in a historical fashion.

Walter Smith’s  picture in uniform and parts of his WWII uniform was also on display.

The parlor, what we now call the front room, had a 1940 set up of a uniform, trunk and other era army necessities.

One of the bedrooms on the second level also has a uniform displayed.

The hotel was built in the late 1800’s and all of the furnishings are from that era.  Did you know that one of the bedrooms was converted into a doctor’s office in the early 1900’s?

There is a lot more history of downtown Flat Rock in the Smith Hotel.

Walt Smith;s Army Picture on the Kitchen Table
Walt Smith;s Army Picture on the Dining Room Table

 

The Flat Rock Historical Society has an open house every second Sunday from 1-4PM, free of charge, but donations are welcome.  You can visit the Historical Societies web page for more information on the monthly open houses or you can also call them for small gatherings at “Memory Lane”.

Click Here for the Flat Rock Historical Society’s web page.

 

 

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WELCOME TO FLAT ROCK

The first Euro-American settlers in Flat Rock were Michael Vreeland and his five grown sons between 1811 and 1820. Michael had been captured by British Rangers during the Revolutionary War and released after American independence.

The family purchased 800 acres (3.2 km2). The town was called the Village of Vreeland until 1838 when the Vreeland family sold off the majority of the land and relinquished control of the area. The Vreeland families built the first grain and lumber mill, having brought the grinding stones from New York.

Descendants of Michael Vreeland still live in the town and attend Flat Rock public schools, being the seventh generation to reside in the town their family founded.

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