JOHNSTOWN —
The first 1,000 tickets to AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival will come with a little something extra: A “stock certificate.”
It’s not a corporate-shareholder document, but instead a chance to “invest” in one of more than 20 nonprofits and community funds that will be on display Friday at the Johnstown event.
The initiative is part of the 20th anniversary of the Johns-town-based Community Foundation for the Alleghenies.
“It’s a great way to showcase some of this area’s many fine nonprofit organizations and the important work they do, and help them raise some money,” said Todd Wagner, festival co-chairman.
Cambria County Library, Conemaugh Valley Conservancy, Girl Scouts of Western PA, Saturday’s Kitchen and Save Our Steeples are just a few examples of the organizations involved in the effort.
Those representing the nonprofits and foundation funds will set up shop from 4:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. at a “community mall” near the festival’s main stage, which is across Walnut Street from the train station.
Festival attendees who are among the first 1,000 through the gates Friday evening will get a $5 certificate that they can deposit at the booth of their choosing.
The nonprofits also will be accepting additional donations by cash, check or credit card.
The initiative “is a way to recognize our 20th anniversary by getting some of our community-supported funds in front of people so that they can learn more about what these organizations are doing,” said Mike Kane, the community foundation’s executive director.
“Plus, we want people simply to connect and have some fun,” Kane added.
There also will be a brief program noting the foundation’s anniversary at 6:15 p.m. on the Bud Light stage.
That precedes performances by the Billy Price Band and, later, festival headliner Los Lobos.
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