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HERE WE GO AGAIN! We are primed and ready to hit the streets of midtown Norfolk once again with our annual pub crawl on Saturday, February 28th as the 2009 Ghent Winter Bar Tour gears up to be another superb night on the town that you won't want to miss. So gather your friends and get registered now before the price goes up! As with all of our Ghent events, ALL proceeds from this bar tour will go directly to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Eastern Virginia. For all of the latest information on what bars are participating, how to register, and what to do that day visit the Winter Bar Tour event site.
SANTA CRAWL SUCCESS! The much-anticipated second annual Norfolk Santa Crawl took place on Saturday, December 6th, visiting seven landmark bars in downtown Norfolk, Virginia. ALL of the $2,125 in proceeds from this very special event went directly to the DC/MD/VA chapter of the ALS Association. For more information on this very special event that is unlike any of our other charity pub crawls in size, format, time, location, atmosphere, and attire, visit NorfolkSantaCrawl.com.
THANK YOU to Meeks Disposal, the nine location, the fifty volunteers, and of course all of the participants that helped make this year's Fall Crawl in historic Olde Towne Portsmouth a night to remember. On Saturday, October 25th, we journeyed once again down High Street and Court Street and successfully raised $5,750 for Children's Performance Workshops, a local Hampton Roads charity organization. Congratulations to all of our prize winners, especially our top raffle winner who took home a one week vacation in Florida with their winning ticket! All photos we have received from this event have been posted in our online photo gallery. For all of the details on what took place at this particular event, click on over to OldeTowneFallCrawl.com.
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 history of Ghent, as well as a cartoon map and other useful information, is available through the links on this site.
