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This September we have everything you need to kick off your holiday shopping! We'll be featuring different shopping events from now until Christmas! Check out our "Local Scene" for more information. Don't forget to watch our new videos while visiting our website! click here to learn more Chick's Note Enjoy your week! If you have an event you would like posted on our "Local Scene" just let us know. We're happy to help promote Central Florida events. Your Friend, Tracy Squadrito tracy@oviedochicks.com

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Dear Tracy, This week we're giving away a Costco Gift Certificate and Trish McCabe's book "Instant Feng Shui!" Enter to win as many times as you like. We have all of the information you need to decorate and participate in this year's Kiwanis Club Chicken Race! The Oviedo Chicks will be judging again this year so sign up soon and get your Chicks ready! We also have information for local businesses that want to participate. Advertise Your Business or Organization! Each month the Oviedo Chicks reach out into the community to help local businesses and organizations. The holiday season is fast approaching and we have several opportunities available to help. Please contact Tracy@OviedoChicks.com for more information on how we can help your business or organization reach 1,000's of people all day - every day! Chick's Note Enjoy your week! If you have an event you would like posted on our "Local Scene" just let us know. We're happy to help promote Central Florida events. Your Friend, Tracy Squadrito tracy@oviedochicks.com

In This Issue Advertise Your Business! New Give-a-Ways! Local Scene Enter To Win Check out all of the new prizes we have to give-a-way! Enter Here Local Scene! Check out the "Local Scene" for all of this summer's events around Central Florida! Have an event you would like posted? Just let us know and we'll add it to the calendar. view calendar Today's Creative Marketing! The Oviedo Chicks Show is produced by Today's Creative Marketing, Inc. Our professional team can create and implement an online marketing program that will increase your company's online presence and turn those "clicks" into "clients".learn more

FREE Health Screening & New Give-a-Ways!

Check out our Local Scene for Central Florida Events and Enter to Win a great prize while you're visiting our website . Orlando Health & Rehab Health Summit! Founders & Authors (Fit 2-B Free Movement) Jeffrey and Courtney Shaw will be speaking at the Orlando Health & Rehab Health Summit August 13th 9am - 1pm. Free on-site health screenings entertainment, food, kid's activities, and exhibits. FREE Zumba class! Mission Road Life Center 151 Mission Road, Oviedo 32762 Check out our Local Scene for more fun events! Chick's Note Enjoy your week! If you have an event you would like posted on our "Local Scene" just let us know. We're happy to help promote Central Florida events. Tracy Squadrito tracy@oviedochicks.com

In This Issue FREE Health Screening! New Give-a-Ways! Local Scene Enter To Win Check out all of the new prizes we have to give-a-way! Enter Here Local Scene! Check out the "Local Scene" for all of this summer's events around Central Florida! Have an event you would like posted? Just let us know and we'll add it to the calendar. view calendar Today's Creative Marketing! The Oviedo Chicks Show is produced by Today's Creative Marketing, Inc. Our professional team can create and implement an online marketing program that will increase your company's online presence and turn those "clicks" into "clients".learn more

Movie Ticket Give-a-Way, Weekend Events & More!

There are so many fun things happening around Central Florida and we're you're one-stop for it all! Check out our Local Scene for Events, Enter to Win a great prize and watch a video or two while you're visiting our website . This Week In Central Florida! End of Summer $10 Sale! Over 200 items on sale for just $10 at www.theBlingRoom.com. It's always a great time to Bling yourself! Thursdays on the Porch Indulge in 2 hours of "girl time" on Thursday mornings from 9:30-11:30 at Thursdays at the Porch, a "living magazine." Segments are themed around rooms in your home (cooking demonstrations in the "Kitchen," health and beauty tips in the "Bathroom," organizational tools in the "Closet," crafts in the "Family Room," stories of faith in the "Living Room," and more). learn more Back to School Make-Up Artist Event With International Make-up Artist and runway model Kori Gowan. Let Kori show you her cool tips for getting the maximum look for the minimum work. Learn more here Check out our Local Scene for more fun events! Chick's Note Enjoy your week! If you have an event you would like posted on our "Local Scene" just let us know. We're happy to help promote Central Florida events. Tracy Squadrito tracy@oviedochicks.com

Enter To Win Movie Tickets! Enter Here Local Scene! Check out the "Local Scene" for all of this summer's events around Central Florida! Have an event you would like posted? Just let us know and we'll add it to the calendar. view calendar Today's Creative Marketing! The Oviedo Chicks Show is produced by Today's Creative Marketing, Inc. Our professional team can create and implement an online marketing program that will increase your company's online presence and turn those "clicks" into "clients".learn more

This Weekend In Central Florida!

Here are just a few of the fun things happening around Central Florida this weekend! Check out our website for more fun things to do and don't forget to "Enter To Win" on our prize page!

CALLING ALL CUTIES! Join us this Friday, July 22 from 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. at the Oviedo Marketplace for our Back to School fashion show casting call. We are looking for boys & girls ages 5-12 to rock the runway at our August 6 Back to School Bash. Casting call located in the space across from Barnes & Noble, near the Food Court.

National Day of the Cowboy July 23-24

In collaboration with Tom Bass and the National Day of the Cowboy organization, the Osceola County Historical Society will hold a National Day of the Cowboy event on its Pioneer Village grounds on Saturday and Sunday, July 23-24, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days.

The free admission event will include various exhibit and crafts vendors offering everything "cowboy culture," casual talks and demonstrations, live music and home-style barbecue. There will also be activities for the children.

On Sunday, July 24, the morning will begin with a traditional cowboy church service held under the oak trees on the village grounds.

“The state of Florida has declared Saturday, July 23, as National Day of the Cowboy in Florida, and celebrations in observance of this day are being held throughout the nation during the entire month through a wide range of activities, including the one being held here at the Pioneer Village.”

The OCHS Pioneer Village is at 750 N. Bass Road (just off West U.S. Highway 192), Kissimmee. For more information, call OCHS at 407-396-8644, or visit the OCHS website at www.osceolahistory.com. For more information on the National Day of the Cowboy organization, website

26th Annual Mid-Summer Dollhouse & Miniatures Show & Sale

Exhibits and displays:

We will have our Guild-member-created street "The Boulevard" on display. Also our Guild project of the year, "Victorian Painted Ladies". Miniatures in all scales will be on display in both Guild Exhibits and Judged Exhibits areas. Come wander amongst them and let the miniatures dazzle your eyes and inspire your creativity.

Roundtables

Make-it-take-it roundtables will be held during the show on Sunday. No pre-registration is needed. Information about the workshops will be posted as it becomes available.
Come create a treasure or two! Children's Area

Each year we offer a FREE workshop for children ages 6 -12. This year, the children will be creating a miniature garden birdhouse. The birdhouse is made from a hand-painted wooden candle cup, dowel rod, and button plug. The children will glue the pieces together and it will be ready for their dollhouse garden. This is a fun and easy project that is very child-friendly! website

Hometown Food Truck Bazaar

Yesterday my husband and I went to a Food Truck Bazaar at the Oviedo Marketplace. They had all of your favorite "fair" food vendors lined up ready to serve, without the "fair" rides. My husband was in heaven!

When we arrived the skies opened up with rain, thunder and some of the worst lightening I have seen in this area in a long time. That didn't stop the men from leaving the safety of their cars (with their wives still sitting in car) and rushing the food vendors. Some of them were actually running a little. It's like they were given some kind of pass to eat badly. I'm not saying the food wasn't healthy, I'm just saying it was served from a truck in a mall parking lot.

Once the rain let up and lightening stopped, I ventured out to see just what all this hype was about. I was happy to see how many other wives and kids had joined their husbands. As I looked around I saw families having a great time just as though they were at the fair.

So, if you want dad to join the family and have a good time take him to a food truck bazaar. Everyone in the family can eat what they like, you'll have time to visit with your friends, the kids can run around and play, and dad, well he eat until he's happy!

Don't forget to visit the Oviedo Chicks website and watch this month's videos and enter to win a couple of prizes while you're there.

Your Friend,

Tracy

tracy@oviedochicks.com

Oviedo, My Hometown...

"George Gould might have been doing his bit to improve downtown Oviedo, but others had more permanent changes in mind. In 1909 the Ladies’ Club raised $100 to buy trees to set along the roadways. In the same year the same club was responsible for paving a sidewalk along Central Avenue. About the same time, the first telephone exchange came to town, enabling people in Oviedo to communicate with Orlando and other places on short notice. Oviedo was already less isolated.

In 1911 some citizens were showing interest in getting together to improve the town further. What may have been the forerunner of city government came to pass that year when several met to organize the Oviedo Board of Trade and to plan for the town’s growth. B.F. Wheeler was elected chairman and T.C. Brannon secretary of the meeting, which then chose B.G. Smith as president, J.B. Jones vice-president, E.T. Chusing secretary, and T.W. Lawton treasurer. They even secured pledges of $200 to $300 toward building a city hall. The city hall, of course, was not built, and the Board of Trade sputtered along for several years. By 1914 it was necessary to reorganize it with T.W. Lawton as president, Ed Farnell as vice-president, and N.F. Lezette as secretary-treasurer. Then in 1918 O.P. Swope spearheaded another reorganization that elected Dr. C.J. Marshall president and Henry Bunn McCall secretary. Even in 1919 the townspeople were still trying to get the Board of Trade under way, but not much happened until the town was formally chartered and a council elected in 1925."

From the writings of “Oviedo – Biography of a Town” by Richard Adicks & Donna Neely

Do you know how your town was started? Maybe you can take a couple of minutes this July 4th to find out. It's a great way to learn a little more about where you live.

if you come across something funny or interesting please send me a note. I love to read about everything hometown!

Tracy@OviedoChicks.com

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