Rondo Days Festival, 17

Saturday, July 17, 2010
8:00am – 10:00pm
Hallie Q Brown / Martin Luther King Jr. Center
270 North Kent St
Saint Paul, MN
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There are many events through the weekend, so check the schedule.

This year’s theme focuses on the community as a whole. We are RE-FRAMING how we think about our beloved Rondo Community. Each year when we talk about the Rondo community, images of a lost, broken and devastated community appear in the news, are discussed on the radio, and re-appear in our hearts and minds. Well it’s time to CELEBRATE our community and the Rondo Lifestyle. The RONDO HEALTHY LIFESTYLE is something we live everyday. It is strong and vibrant. It celebrates the diversity and strengths of its people, and continues to educate it’s people on making healthy lifestyle choices for its physical, mental, social and spiritual well being and KMOJ-FM 89.9 (http://KMOJFM.com/) is calling upon all its supporters and listeners to SPONSOR, CONTRIBUTE, SUPPORT, VOLUNTEER and get involved with this year’s Rondo Days Celebration

*The Rondo Mission:
Rondo Avenue Inc (RAI) is dedicated to preserving, conserving and accurately interpreting the contributions of African Americans in and around the Rondo Community.

*The Rondo Vision:
Rondo Avenue Inc. is to celebrate the rich history and contributions of the African Americans community to the City of Saint Paul; and to reconnect and transmit the “Rondo Culture, Values and Lifestyle”: to our future generations.

***EVENTS SCHEDULE***
http://pr3e.com/Rondo/2010%20Rondo%20Days%20Events%20Schedule.pdf

*Rondo Avenue Inc. History and the Rondo Days Festival:
In 1982, Marvin “Roger” Anderson and Floyd Smaller came up with an idea to bring back a sense of community, stability, and neighborhood values of the old Rondo community. It was their intent to create an organization dedicated to sharing the contributions of African Americans and the rich cultural history of the Rondo community to the City of Saint Paul, and the great State of Minnesota; and to bring people together to celebrate the positive growth and diversity of our beloved Rondo community.

It was their hard work and dedication to the memory of the Rondo community that resulted in the formation of the “Rondo Avenue Inc. Organization” and the Rondo Days Festival. The Rondo Days Festival is the largest African-American celebration throughout the great State of Minnesota. It celebrates the best and brightest of Minnesota’s African-American stories, achievements and culture. It reunites a dispersed people, welcomes new neighbors and encourages everyone to be mindful of the extent to which neighborhoods nourish our souls.

Today, Rondo Avenue Inc. is a community based 501(c) 3 organization that sponsors a number of community events and workshops. Rondo Avenue, Inc. seeks to preserve its rich heritage for future generations while it rebuilds and strengthens its present community relationships and educates its youth on the history of our community.

The Rondo Avenue Inc. Board of Directors is made up of a dedicated group of individuals that volunteer their time, energy and talents to the future development of the Rondo Avenue Inc. Organization, the Rondo Days Festival, and to community programs and services that embrace, promote and celebrate the Rondo legacy as a whole.

*FESTIVAL DEMOGRAPHICS:
It is estimated that 35,000 – 75,000 people attend the various Rondo Days Events and Festival each year. Over the past three years RAI has utilized several marketing strategies that have increased the number of attendee’s to this Historical event, with a primary focus and dedication to Good Customer Service for our sponsors, vendors, entertainers and guests of the Festival.