Had an interesting conversation with a Musikfest patron. She was a little freaked out by the shooting. She was more upset because she got a $30 parking ticket in the city the day before. When I told her meters are free on Sundays, she said she wished she had known yesterday, because she and her husband would have just visited on Sunday.

Honestly, I am glad the whole thing ends today. After the police clear Main Street, Broad Street gets noisy into the hours past midnight.

Lani Goins

The combination of Mounted Police and those on foot patrol gives the festival a sense of being safe and secure. I also noticed several officers interacting with fest goers in a friendly helpful way.

There are some areas where pedestrian flow becomes very constricted due to heavily attended performances or long lines at popular food vendors, which hampers one’s ability to move about from site to site.

Several people I spoke with were happy that a festival site, formerly known as Americaplatz and now called Stadtplatz, has returned to Payrow Plaza at City Hall.

Dana Grubb

James Fizer, a former U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal, and his family were honored Aug. 10 by Wells Fargo and Military Warriors Support Foundation (MWSF) in front of the crowd of festival-goers. As part of a program collaboration between the bank and nonprofit, Fizer and his family recently received a mortgage-free home donated by Wells Fargo and became Pennsylvania residents – achieving their dream of homeownership in the Keystone State. The Jonestown home was donated mortgage-free to Military Warriors Support Foundation’s (MWSF) Homes4WoundedHeroes program.

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