

Center, Miki Girts, Whirlybird Audio Festival founder and promoter, discusses the Whirlybird Audio Festival all through a Jamestown Neighborhood Progress Corp. conference Wednesday.
P-J photo by Dennis Phillips

Just after a two-year hiatus simply because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Whirlybird Audio Pageant is slated to take place once more this summertime in downtown Jamestown.
On Wednesday, the Jamestown Area Improvement Corp. talked over the festival with founder and promoter Miki Girts, who has utilized for money from the Fund for Downtown Programming.
Girts stated the pageant will acquire position Aug. 11 by means of Aug. 13, with a warm-up act occurring on Wednesday. He claimed quite a few bands will engage in through the festival, with open up mic evenings and comedic acts also accomplishing. He extra there will also be a DJ act and karaoke nights.
Neighborhood organizations like the Labyrinth Push Co. Beer Snob Wine Cellar Misplaced Recording Studio 4 Beneath Haggy’s Bar & Grill Forte Shawbucks and DoubleTree by Hilton Jamestown will also be participating in competition functions.
Girts explained on Friday night time the pageant will be heading on in coordination with the Jamestown Cruise-In event, sponsored by the Chautauqua Chamber of Commerce and the Jamestown Renaissance Corp.
A important addition to this year’s festival will be an art competition, Girts explained. He claimed there will be reside portray and art sellers offering their operates all through the pageant. He additional artwork will be on display screen in Mechanics Alley.
Crystal Surdyk, city progress director, claimed Girts is implementing for a full of $38,700 from the Fund for Downtown Programming, with $12,500 staying a loan and a grant of $26,200.
This is not the first time Girts has gained cash from the metropolis for the competition. In 2019, the JLDC granted him $5,500 for the 2nd yr of the audio pageant, which started off in 2018.
Girts mentioned another distinction with this year’s competition will be much less functions. He reported in 2019, far more than 50 acts participated. He additional this year there will be about 35 functions, which usually means they will execute a minor longer than in earlier a long time.
“We’re wanting at four times of totally free activities,” he mentioned.
In other business, the JLDC mentioned a $90,000 financial loan at 4% desire for seven years for Worldwide Ordnance Technologies Inc. Stephanie Wright, city financial advancement coordinator, reported the financial loan will go toward refurbishing the company’s heat cure furnace.
Tammy Snider of IOT stated there was a deficiency in the furnace they obtained, which deteriorated the inside. She explained an endothermic generator will be extra in the course of the furnace’s renovation to reduce the deterioration.
Wright explained the complete undertaking expense will be $230,000, with IOT also implementing to the Chautauqua County Industrial Development Company for a $90,000 bank loan.
IOT manufactures device gun hyperlinks, ammo clips and other ammunition elements. Wright claimed simply because of new contracts, the enterprise is seeking to add 7 new workforce in the foreseeable future. IOT currently has 35 staff members.
Due to the fact there weren’t sufficient users of the JLDC board current for a quorum, the board will vote later on this week on both proposals via electronic mail.