Opinions Flow About Beer Garden Issue at Dormont Council Meeting
Even though this year's Dormont Street Fair offering has been canceled, the controversy continues.
Though Dormont Council voted 6-1 earlier this month to eliminate the Beer Garden from this year's Dormont Street Fair on Oct. 8, the controversy about it continued at Monday night's agenda meeting. At least two local bar owners lobbied council at this month's voting meeting to remove the Beer Garden from the annual fair because they said it has cost them thousands of dollars in business. At that meeting other residents and borough officials said they did not agree with the borough-sanctioned alcohol sales. Councilman Drew Lehman, who was the lone vote against discontinuing the Beer Garden, noted that comments on the story about council's vote on Patch had been 3-1 in support of the Beer Garden, which raised money for the borough recreation…
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Ed M
9:00 am on Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Get the local bars to sponsor the Beer Garden! They get a portion of the sales and donate a portion to the cause! There is no way Breakers lost $1,000 in one day each year. And the other figure quoted as a loss is outrageous as well! more ›