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Mardi Gras 2017

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ORGANIZATION: City of Lake Dallas

  • A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
  • 29 people are interested
Volunteers at Mardi Gras

Celebrate all that is Mardi Gras - Music, Parades and Food! Wear your festive greens, purples and golds and collect all the beads you can as the amazing floats pass by during the parade. Visit with your neighbors and stroll the vendor market. Be sure to check out all the entries in the Mask Contest. If you don’t participate in the crawfish eating contest, make sure you are there to watch it! Returning this year, are favorites The N’awlins Gumbo Kings. They will headline the entertainment and have you dancing in the streets.

There’s a lot you can do:

Distribute posters

Parade check-in and lineup

Contest registration and judging

Info booth - hand out schedules, check in volunteers, etc.

Shoot video of the event

Tear down after event - tables, chairs, lights, etc.

Here’s what you can expect:

Volunteer shifts are 2 hours long

Please arrive 15 minutes before your shift starts

Volunteer assignments will be given out the week before the event

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About City of Lake Dallas

Location:

212 Main Street, Lake Dallas, TX 75065, US

Mission Statement

Lake Dallas' vision is to be a proud community with unique charm, built on strong family and community values, with exciting lakeside, recreational and tourism assets supported by a diverse and profitable business base.

Description

What's old is new again in the charming lakeside community of Lake Dallas, just north of the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex. A new bridge linking Lake Dallas' Swisher Road and Little Elm's Garza Lane allows motorists to get from I-35E to the Dallas North Tollway and vice versa.

The bridge has once again provided a vital transportation link between Lake Dallas and Little Elm. The ability to span the waters of Lewisville Lake along with a revitalizing downtown is bringing attention from developers, business owners and residents alike.

In the 1920's, a bridge over Lewisville Lake once provided a vital transportation link between Lake Dallas and Little Elm. That bridge was removed in the 1950's to make way for the expansion of the lake.

Much of the land leading up to the Lake Dallas side of the bridge has prime development potential for retail and commercial venture and will be just minutes from I-35E. A six-­lane thoroughfare will handle the traffic from I-35E to the bridge.

A revitalized downtown area is in the works with a new urban zoning classification that allows the newly popular concept of commercial space on the first floor and residential lofts upstairs. While other cities are just beginning to embrace the idea, it's been going on in Lake Dallas for decades in the historic and recently renovated 1908 Woodman of the World building that now houses the community newspaper, The Lake Cities Sun, on the first floor and residential lofts above.

Several new developments are planned for the downtown area including Market Street Square, another similarly designed concept of commercial/residential spaces. Phase One will include 8,000 square feet with another 16,000 square feet to be built.

The city is encouraging and helping to develop its downtown area into a tree-lined, thriving area of historically accurate brick buildings filled with shops, restaurants, offices and living spaces.

CAUSE AREAS

Children & Youth
Community
Children & Youth, Community

WHEN

Fri Feb 24, 2017
04:15 PM - 09:30 PM

WHERE

212 Main StreetLake Dallas, TX 75065

(33.118652,-97.02766)
 

SKILLS

  • Community Outreach

GOOD FOR

  • Teens
  • People 55+
  • Group

REQUIREMENTS

  • 2 hours

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