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Taste of Hubbard boasts more than two dozen local restaurants.
By Sarah Lehr
HUBBARD
What if it were possible to eat your way to a good cause?
Sunday’s eighth annual Taste of Hubbard offers that opportunity. The event, which will take place from noon to 3 p.m. in Harding Park at 249 Roosevelt Drive, features more than two dozen local restaurants from Hubbard, Youngstown, Lowellville, Liberty, Boardman, Vienna and Sharon, Pa.
Proceeds will benefit the Harding Park Meeting House project, which is in the process of building a nondenominational community center at the site of a historic Presbyterian meeting house. Built in 1857, the Presbyterian meeting house was the second Presbyterian church in the area. The first was a simple log structure.
Mary Buchenic, a member of the Harding Park planning committee, hopes the meeting house will serve as a community hub, just as the original structure did generations ago. Buchenic estimates that the committee has completed about a third of the restoration process.
“We just keep plugging away at it,” Buchenic said. “It’s a beautiful building in a beautiful setting. We’ve already been able to host a few weddings there.”
Entry to Taste of Hubbard is free, however “tasting strips” of 10 tickets each will be for sale to purchase food items. One tasting strip is $8, two strips are $15 and three strips are $20. There will also be a vintage car cruise and a D.J. Local artisans will sell their wares.
The Harding Park Meeting House Building Committee, which includes members of the Hubbard Area Chamber of Commerce, Hubbard Rotary Club and Park Board, organized the event.