'Screen on the Green' Marks Second Successful Season

Thursday night marked the end of another successful season for the recreation department's Screen on the Green program. Now in its second year, the program has been a boon to the community with a growing number of residents and local businesses making the schedule of events enjoyable to all.

"Every week you cannot find an empty blade of grass on the green," said Dicrector of Community Programs Judith Leiblein Josephs.

Josephs said that this season upwards of 800 people typically shown up for the events, a marked increase from last year when the number hovered around 500.
When we started the program last year we had no idea how it would go," Josephs said. "Now everyone including the sponsors have been delighted (with the program's success).

This program year welcomed 13 sponsors to the program one one of three categories  - premium sponsors, such as PNC Bank, Equinox Fitness Clubs, Investors Bank and Smyyth Volvo, Partner Sponsors of Glisel Jimenez Agency- State Farm Insurance, Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, P.C. Attorneys at Law, Lois Schneider Realtor and Carol Ann Clynes Find Homes- Coldwell Banker.  The new category of sponsors this year, Non-Profit Sponsors include The Connection, Summit Area YMCASummit Lions Club, Summit PA and the Summit ELKS.

The entire program is paid for by corporate sponsors.

All of the events for the Screen on the Green program have featured a movie but have also included a thematic presentation including a character from the movie, such when Willy Wonka showed up with an Oompa Loompa for the feature of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

When Casablanca was shown on adult Screen on the Green night, a character portraying Clark Gable showed up.

"We it differently than others," Josephs said."We have proven that we are a real experience. There is no one else who brings out Willy Wonka and an Oompa Lumpa.