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Promoters propose May charity festival in Salisbury, offer 10,000 teddy bears for first responders
Summary
Become the Change promotions asked Salisbury council to note a planned May festival that will benefit Lutheran Services Carolinas, will include food, costume and music contests, and will distribute roughly 10,000 teddy bears to first responders.
Lonnie Brick and Angela Reynolds, representing Become the Change promotions, used public comment time at the March 18 Salisbury City Council meeting to describe a planned charity festival in Salisbury in May.
Brick said the festival is being organized to benefit Lutheran Services Carolinas and that the organizers expect a regional marketing reach: "Our commercials reach 1,200,000 people currently." He said the event will include a food competition, a costume contest, a car show and a battle of the bands, and that the organizers will bring national touring acts and have secured sponsorship (the Hampton Inn is listed as a sponsor). The organizers plan to donate about 10,000 teddy bears to local first responders — police, fire and EMS — with the intent that the police department would distribute bears to domestic-violence shelters or to children encountered on disturbance calls.
Brick asked council members, including the mayor, to participate as judges in competitions and offered to leave flyers with the city clerk for follow-up.
Ending: City staff accepted the flyers for follow-up; no formal city action or funding request was made during the meeting.
