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Friday, September 18, 2020

Cars queue up along Madison St. for Lansdale Cruise Night 2018.

As most large-scale events have been laid to waste across the North Penn area by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, one local favorite is poised to buck the trend on Saturday night.

Discover Lansdale’s 10 th Annual Lansdale Cruise Night will take place in downtown Lansdale on Sept. 19 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., though the event has been modified and will be missing some of the features of years’ past.

“This is not the way we expected to celebrate the 10 th anniversary of Lansdale Cruise Night… no pre-cruise car show, no band and no awards,” said Bill Henning, the event’s organizer. “But, we do invite you to join us for a cruise down Main Street in Lansdale, make a lap or two or more along the old cruise route and, at some point, make a turn onto Madison Street, where there will be a drop off food collection location.”

Henning said the event is open to all cars, though “cool cars are cooler.” Participants must abide by all traffic laws and burnouts are strictly prohibited. No exhaust flames or hydraulics are permitted, and the prohibition of open alcohol containers in public spaces remains in effect.

When exiting vehicles, participants are asked to please wear a mask.

The event also serves as an annual food drive for Manna on Main Street. That tradition will continue this year, however those who wish to donate will do so by driving to the collection point at Madison Street, where they will then hand off their donation without getting out of their vehicle. Henning said organizers will be wearing proper protection attire.

Participants are asked to bring a minimum of three canned goods. For more information on the event, please click here.

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Cruise night is coming up in lansdale, cruising the "dale", like it was done back in the day.

Justin Heinze , Patch Staff

The 5th annual Lansdale Cruise Night is coming up in Lansdale on September 19.

Manna on Main Street will sponsor the event.

A food drive will also be held in conjunction, as is tradition.

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The cost of registration this year it is now $5 plus a minimum of 3 canned goods donation.

The event will run from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Main Street.

You can print out the Lansdale Cruise Night registration form and fill it out before hand to save time at registration, which starts at 5:30 p.m.

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Children check out some of the classic cars as they are lined up for for the fourth annual Lansdale Cruise Night on Saturday evening, Sept. 20, 2014.

Classic cars are scene past a banner as they lined up for for the fourth annual Lansdale Cruise Night on Saturday evening, Sept. 20, 2014.

Bob and Anita Capps pull up in their replica 1968 Shelby Cobra for the fourth annual Lansdale Cruise Night on Saturday evening, Sept. 20, 2014. (MediaNews Group file photo)

Borough officials announced Wednesday night that local nonprofit Discover Lansdale will not claim its annual subsidy from the borough in 2020.

“They voted unanimously to take the $50,000 investment, that borough council authorized in the 2020 budget, and return it to the borough, knowing full well that there was a lack of activities that they could produce in this season,” said borough Manager John Ernst.

Discover Lansdale was created in 2011 as an umbrella organization to lead and coordinate nearly every major activity in town, from monthly First Fridays to the annual Founders Day celebration , while supporting other events already on the calendar and producing an annual business directory – recently updated, post-pandemic – and magazine of events around town.

In the first year, Discover was funded with $125,000 in taxpayer dollars from the borough’s budget, which organizers vowed to reduce each year as the nonprofit grew its fundraising. The borough subsidy did drop to $100,000 in 2014 , then down to $75,000 in 2015 , and has stayed level at $50,000 since 2016 , finance director John Ramey said Wednesday, and Ernst said Discover’s board of directors had said they would like to have it again in 2021 if events are allowed by then.

“They would like to have that money put back into the budget, from the borough, for 2021,” Ernst said, “assuming that we’re able to go back to some kind of event schedule.”

Discover board member Bruce Schwartz said the nonprofit did have a busy calendar planned for 2020, but the pandemic has put a hold on all mass gatherings, so they’ve shifted to programs to support local businesses instead.

“I just want to echo how frustrated I know the town is, and how frustrated we have been this year,” Schwartz said.

“We had great plans, none of which came to fruition. We’ve done what we can, between the magazine and business director, and ‘Lansdale Strong’ and restaurant week , but not nearly what we had hoped to do,” he said.

Aside from insurance costs and materials for those printed products, the nonprofit’s expenses have been “relatively minimal” in 2020 with no events due to COVID-19, Schwartz told the committee.

“We just realize so many people in town are hurting, that if there’s any way it can be put into anything like utility relief, or something that would help some of the more strongly affected residents in town, we would love it,” he said.

“Obviously, it’s your cash, you do what you want with it, and what you think will work best. We’re just hoping to come back stronger than ever in 2021.”

Councilman Leon Angelichio asked if the borough would have any legal issues with not allocating or disbursing the funds. Solicitor Patrick Hitchens answered “my initial reaction would be probably not,” and said that line item in the budget could be considered similar to a police vehicle or other purchase that is funded but not spent.

“It’s just a non-expenditure. If they took it, and are giving it back, it’s very nice that they’re giving it back, but I would look at it as a non-expenditure,” he said. Ramey added that the funds are typically transferred to Discover when the nonprofit requests them from the borough to help cover event costs, but no request was made for 2020.

Angelichio asked if the funds would or should go to any particular fund elsewhere in the budget, and Ramey said his recommendation is to keep it in the town’s general fund for now.

“With the revenue shortfalls we’re probably going to recognize in 2020, I would leave it in the general fund, to try to sustain our fund balance,” he said.

All three members of the administration and finance committee said they were thankful that Discover had chosen to return the funds: Angelichio said he thought it a “nice gesture,” councilman Denton Burnell said “it seems like the right thing to do,” and councilwoman Carrie Hawkins Charlton said she was “very appreciative.”

“I look forward to getting back to the public events. That will be nice, to bring a little bit of normalcy to town,” Angelichio said.

And speaking of events: Discover did announce Wednesday night that they plan to host a modified version of their annual “Cruise Night,” for local residents to drive their classic cars around town, on Sept. 19. According to Schwartz and Discover organizer Bill Henning, the 10th annual cruise night will take place from 7 to 9 p.m., and will not feature gatherings for a car show, live music, or awards, but will collect donated food for local nonprofit Manna on Main Street before cruising around the town.

“It is a pretty stripped down version of our normal cruise night because of the COVID limitation with gatherings,” Henning said.

“With so many cancellations of local events and car shows throughout the area, this year we felt a simplified version was better than one. Plus, with the current situation and difficulties some families are experiencing, we also felt it was important to have the food drive,” he said.

Those who take part are asked to bring at least three canned goods, wear masks, and maintain at least six feet (or two tire lengths) distance from all persons and drivers. For more information visit www.DiscoverLansdale.org , search for “Discover Lansdale” on Facebook or follow @lansdaleorg on Twitter .

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