We Look Mahvelous!

Perhaps you never heard that phrase, “You look mahvelous!” but in 1985, on Saturday Night Live, Billy Crystal made a character based on Fernando Lamas come alive. It was a catch phrase that everyone used, like other slogans of the time, such as Clara Peller’s phrase: “Where’s the beef?”

“You look mahvelous!” became such a popular parody there was a video and we all repeated the phrase every chance we got.

I’m going to repeat that phrase today for us: Dale Boulevard…You look mahvelous!

Our sincere thanks go to more than 100 residents along the parade route who have edged their walks, removed the grass growing through the cracks in the sidewalk and the rain gutters in the street.

Thank you to Joey Pullen’s landscape crew, VDOT and PWC Public Works. Our special thanks to the volunteers from Week of Hope whose 18 volunteers contributed 432 hours of labor to groom the commuter lot in two days and spent two more days on Dale Boulevard edging sidewalks.

Special thanks to: Linda Gosnell, Kelly Easterly, Brianne Visaya, Janice Carr, James Hicks, Kayne Karnbach, Shannan Prioleau, my husband, Bill and our editor, Nathan Curby. Our hours to date total: 178!

Thanks also to Rick Miller for the great and to Patch for space to publicize our event. Thanks to  (Amy and Sara) for donating ball caps and thanks to the Clean Community Council for donating gloves and safety vests.

Some of our volunteers will be coming back to work on Saturday to finish up some spots we may have left to do.

Three more teams of  Week of Hope volunteers will be marching in the parade, then coming back to staff the game booths at Family Fun Day (Noon until 2:00 PM at the Commuter Lot at Dale and Gemini). Those same Week of Hope volunteers will return on Tuesday to clean up the debris left on the parade route.

I hope you’ll attend the Independence Day Parade, that you’ll visit us at Family Fun Day and that you enjoy how beautiful our community looks.

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