Third Annual Celebrate Purcellville town-wide event

Join the Town of Purcellville and the Purcellville Parks and Recreation Advisory Board for the Town’s third annual Celebrate Purcellville, a week-long, town-wide event from Oct. 2 – 8. Use your Celebrate Purcellville Passport to visit more than 50 businesses and organizations in town, go on a town-wide scavenger hunt, enjoy a nature trivia walk and a storybook trail walk, attend special events that are part of the week-long celebration, and join in the Celebrate Purcellville finale for live music, activities, and a chance to win prizes.  

Get more information on the Celebrate Purcellville page on the Town website at: https://purcellvilleva.gov/celebrate-purcellville.

Celebrate Purcellville Activities from Oct. 2 – 8
The Celebrate Purcellville Passport will include a list of the businesses and organizations that are participating in the week-long event.  Beginning Sept. 29, the Celebrate Purcellville Passport will be available at Town Hall (221 S. Nursery Ave), the Bush Tabernacle (250 S. Nursery Ave.), and the Purcellville Library (220 E. Main Street).

The passport may also be downloaded from the Celebrate Purcellville page of the Town’s website. Get at least 20 stickers from participating businesses and organizations, and turn in your Celebrate Purcellville Passports between noon and 3 p.m. at the finale in Dillon’s Woods on Sunday, Oct. 8 for a chance to win prizes. You must be present to win. Prizes have been donated by participating businesses and organizations.

Below are special activities that are happening next week as part of Celebrate Purcellville. Be sure to stop by any of these locations to get a sticker in your Celebrate Purcellville Passport:

• Oct. 4 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. – Coffee with a Cop at bkd Bagels (130 Purcellville Gateway Drive); part of National Coffee with a Cop Day
• Oct. 4 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. – Purcellville Arts Council Fiber Art Show reception at Purcellville Town Hall with a talk about the History of Quilting in Loudoun featuring Priscilla Godfrey and a chance to meet artists from the Waterford Quilters Guild and the Fiber Arts Guild of the Blue Ridge
• Oct. 7 from 2 to 5 p.m. – Purcellville Garden Club Small Standard Flower Show with Juried Floral Designs and Horticulture exhibits at the Purcellville Train Station
• Oct. 7 from 7 to 10 p.m. – Adult Skate Night at the Bush Tabernacle (admission $10 in advance and $15 at the door)

The Purcellville Tag Sale, a separate, complementary event, will be held on Oct. 7 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Get more information about this town-wide event at www.PurcellvilleVaTagSale.com. Additionally, the Purcellville Library will be celebrating their 85 th  birthday on Oct. 7 from 9:30 a.m.  to 5 p.m. Stop by for a book sale, birthday cake, live music, balloon art, and other fun activities.

The Celebrate Purcellville Passport will include three week-long activities that will highlight nature, history, and culture in town. These pages of the passport may be turned separately at the Celebrate Purcellville Finale for a chance to win prizes too.

• Town-wide scavenger hunt – use the clues in the passport to find locations all over town and write the code for each location in the passport; get at least 6 of the codes to qualify for a chance to win prizes
• Nature trivia walk – Walk the Chapman DeMary Trail and find the markers with nature trivia questions and write your answers in the passport; get at least 6 of the answers to qualify for a chance to win prizes
• Storybook trails at the Suzanne R. Kane Nature Preserve – Walk the path at the preserve and enjoy reading a story on boards displayed along the way

 
Celebrate Purcellville Finale on Oct. 8
From noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 8, come to Dillon’s Woods for the finale of Celebrate
Purcellville with live music, fun activities, special recognitions, food, drink, and
shopping. People who got at least 20 stickers in their Celebrate Purcellville Passports, at least 6
codes from the scavenger hunt, and/or 6 correct answers from the nature trivia walk may turn
them in between noon and 3 p.m. for a chance to win prizes donated by participating businesses
and organizations. The prize drawings will be at 4 p.m. and you must be there to win.  Get the
schedule for the finale online at https://purcellvilleva.gov/celebrate-purcellville.
 
Celebrate Purcellville is co-hosted by the Town of Purcellville and the Purcellville Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, and sponsored by Huck & Company Automotive Studio, Guidepost Montessori, CaseCo, Merit Restorations, Northern Virginia Orthodontics, Purcellville Business Association, Sengpiehl Insurance Group, Catoctin Creek Distilling Company, Darrell’s Barber Shop, Purcellville Copy, Valley Energy, Kaizen MMA of Purcellville, The Bush Tabernacle, and OHM Productions.

For more information, visit the Celebrate Purcellville page of the Town website at https://purcellvilleva.gov/celebrate-purcellville.