Block Party jams downtown Jamestown – Photos

Jamestown (CSi) Perfect weather helped attract a record crowd to the Community Block Party Thursday, in Downtown Jamestown, estimated at between 3,000 and 4,000 people.

The Party helped welcome another class of freshmen students to the University of Jamestown.

With some late additions, there were about 110 booths.

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More students attended  the block party this year partly because there was no football game scheduled for Thursday night.  300 new students are at UJ this fall.

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First Avenue from the railroad tracks south to 3rd Street Southwest/Southeast will be closed starting at 9 a.m. to clear out vehicles. After 1 p.m. booth vendors will come in from the 3rd Street side, get their booth space assignments, and set up their booths.

The event also brings together the University of Jamestown students, highlighting freshman, with the community, including business owners, who may be perspective employers.

Many students will also volunteer for churches, the James River Humane Society and other organizations.

The first-year students are required to attend as part of orientation and wear matching orange T-shirts, and at the same time encourages the citizens of Jamestown to come out and it’s fun and it’s free.

The students will be coming down the 5^{th Avenue hill about 6-p.m., to join in the block party.}

There will also be free refreshments and some local vendors will sell food, adding that the public is encouraged to bring their own chairs.

There will be inflatable air games and activities, prizes and giveaways.

The Block Party co-chairs are Gary Van Zinderen, UJ dean of students, and Erin Paulson of the Downtown Jamestown Association, a financial adviser with Edward Jones.