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This year, we at Saline Main Street heartily welcome the great return of our German cultural gathering, Oktoberfest! And, we are both honored and thrilled to congratulate our amazing community leader, Rebecca Schneider as Festmeisterin for 2021.
Rebecca is well-known throughout Saline for her local civic pride, her down-to-earth personality and her incredible community spirit. As this year’s event leader, Schneider brings a genuine love for German heritage to this weekend cultural celebration. By taking reign over this time-honored harvest, Saline's Oktoberfest comes full circle.
Schneider was awarded the honor by Saline’s Lindenburg Friendship Committee, and for a whole host of great reasons. It’s no secret that Rebecca has played a huge role in bringing Oktoberfest to Saline. She lives downtown in an historic home with her husband Matthew, son Christian and daughter Ava. The 4 of them are superstars each and every year, working tirelessly with Saline Main Street volunteers and co-event chair, Katie Spence to make the event as authentic and vibrant as possible.
In 2018, Rebecca Schneider was honored by the Saline Area Chamber of Commerce as Citizen of the Year. In an article published by Tran Longmoore and the Saline Post, Rebecca reminisced about the German heritage event’s humble beginnings here. “I remember brainstorming about having an Oktoberfest in Downtown Saline years ago with a group gathered on our front porch,” said Schneider.
Since then, Saline’s Oktoberfest weekend has become a huge favorite among locals and regional visitors -- adding to our city's character, storyline and unique style.
Schneider holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Kalamazoo College and a Master of Public Administration from The George Washington University. While studying at Kalamazoo, Rebecca completed a foreign educational program in Hanover, Germany. She is a founding board member of Saline Main Street, the downtown revitalization nonprofit that hosts the annual Oktoberfest event.
It is a supreme honor to welcome Rebecca Schneider as the 2021 Oktoberfest Festmeisterin! Join us Friday night, September 17, 2021 at 6:30PM for the Tapping of the Golden Keg in the Bier Garten on S Ann Arbor Street in Downtown Saline.
For more information please visit the Events page at www.salinemainstreet.org.
Sunny, with a high of 63 and low of 32 degrees. Sunny during the morning, clear overnight.
No, the motion to approve & adopt was made by Ceo, seconded by Lesch. If you're interested in an unedited/unredacted version of Monday's meeting, the link to the video recording of our budget work session and regular meeting is provided below -
Thank you to those Council members who support the citizens and the Rec Center.
Please note, the rec center now requires 1/3 to almost 1/2 of its operations be funded by the City of Saline taxpayers. Approximately 10% of our City population uses the facility, while 2/3 of the members are non-resident. It’s time the non City residents of the Saline community pays its fair share.
What happened with the funding for the needed repairs at the Recreation Center? With all of the programs and community services provided at the Recreation Center, the nearby communities spending tens of millions of dollars to build new Recreation Centers, and the number of members/high usage for the Center and part
Name all the municipalities of 10,000 people that have their own Rec Center with a pool. I'm generally curious.
Saline Area Schools needs to take over the Rec Center with a Rec creation millage and maybe a short bond issue, too, for improvements.
The mayor and city council love to spend taxpayer dollars frivolously. More and more $$$ into the rec center, that needs to stop. We still don’t have drinkable water and yet the city keeps raising rates. Can’t speak for everyone but I would much rather have clean water than a “lazy river!”
Sorry, Toby Crotty. Do not align to your assessment or thoughts. While nearby communities are spending tens of millions of dollars to build Recreation Centers (because of their value to citizens and communities), Saline is in the fortunate position of already having a very good facility in place which now needs to
You avoided my main point. The rec center is a nice amenity for those that use it. However, it is not a necessity. Clean safe water that we pay exorbitant rates for IS a necessity for EVERYONE!
The unprofessional behavior while in the supposed role of being a journalist when talking to that protester is ridiculous. The incorrect information and “facts” you spewed during the conversation are just par for the course. Thanks for showing up!
I agree with your comments about this journalist. I use the word journalist loosely here, as a journalist should be bringing forth the views of the people they are interviewing, not bringing their obvious bias into every forced conversation.
I understand the right 4 peaceful protests, why expose children to hate and show disrespect to our flag, what is that teaching the children. As a Korean Veteran I oppose anyone disrespecting our countries FLAG, shame on the protesters,