Ghent Winter Bar Tour
February 27, 2010
America's most charitable pub crawl!
ANOTHER NEW RECORD! A warm winter sun shined on the Ghent Winter Bar Tour on Saturday, February 27th as this grandest of charity pub crawls again topped the charts, raising $23,750 for Edmarc Hospice for Children! This monstrous total broke the record we had last winter and once again solidified the event's position as the most successful charity pub crawl in America!
Eleven bars, ten sponsors, ninety volunteers, and a sell-out crowd of 1,000 participants helping to make this big event a huge success yet again. Our largest annual pub crawl journeyed down Colley Avenue, 21st Street, and the surrounding locale in the historic midtown Norfolk neighborhood of Ghent. And when it was all done, we threw our largest and best closing ceremony yet in a big tent out back of The New Belmont featuring three awesome local acts - Arete, Bryan Fine, and The Tipping Point! Congratulations to all of our prize winners, especially our big 50/50 cash raffle winner who won $269! All of the details on what took place at this big event are available through the links in the menu above. Thanks again to all of our sponsors, donors, volunteers, and participants for all of your support - we couldn't do it without you and hope to see you at another event soon!
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For those a bit less familiar with the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, Ghent is a historic neighborhood located on the west side of midtown Norfolk,
just north of downtown and just south of Old Dominion University. Its name comes from the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium, which ended the War of 1812. The first suburb of Norfolk, Ghent was created around the turn of the 20th century and most of its buildings date back to the era between 1890 and 1920. More on the unique history of Ghent, as well as a cartoon map of local attractions and other useful information, is available through the City of Norfolk and Ghent Business Association websites.
