In mid-May of each year, the Zionsville Chamber of Commerce hosts a country market featuring 150 booths on Main Street. It all happens on a Saturday from 10:00 to 5:00. VRA Volunteers staff the VRA booth, pass out VRA information and encourage new membership. Typically the display is set up between 9:00 and 10:00. Volunteers staff the display for 2 hour shifts and may help dismantle it at the end of the day if on the last shift.

The Zionsville Lions Club sponsors a Fall Festival is scheduled in September each year. The Festival kicks off with a parade on Saturday morning and of course, the VRA is there. Volunteers walk in the parade, displaying the VRA banner to parade viewers, and try not to bump into other parade participants. It's a great way to take a walk and words cannot describe the feeling when you turn onto Main Street with a cheering crowd on either side.   Photo Gallery

Did you ever want to be a ghost or serve as a ghost tour guide? In October, the P.H. Sullivan Museum hosts a "ghost walk" through the Village where you meet and hear from some of the spirits from Zionsville's past. There are a number of activities available for volunteers, running the gamut from staffing the ticket table, guiding participants, to being a ghost. It's all great fun!

Village Conservation District Committee

The VRA Conservation District Committee generally meets the 2^nd Wednesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Library.  The purposes of the committee are as follows:
1. determine the nature and extent of the interest of Village residents in a historic preservation or conservation district and ordinance;
2.  develop guidelines for the establishment of the district based upon the information received from Village residents; and
3.   take such steps as are reasonably necessary to establish a town commission to implement the guidelines developed by the committee. 

Committee members include:
Norm Ast, 495 W. Ash

Beth Bugbee, 10 E. Ash
Drew Kogan, 395 W. Walnut
Amelia Lacy, 105 N. Maple

Tony Macklin, Chair, 445 W. Ash (amacklin@indy.rr.com or 873-1493)
Jack McClellan, 515 W. Pine
Judy Varner, 290 W. Pine

Town Manager Ed Mitro acts as technical advisor to the committee.

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This committee works with the Zionsville Historical Society to select award winners. The purpose of the Award is to promote and honor those village homeowners who recently, past year, restored or preserved their home in an outstanding manner while maintaining the integrity and spirit of the unique architecture in the village of Zionsville. The award itself is a lantern, symbolic of leading the way in restoration, and each recipient is given a photograph of his or her house. The Village Residents' Association presents the awards.

The 2005 Lamplighter Award was presented to the Zelonis family for the excellent renovation of their 40 South Third Street home.  Layers of asbestos shingles were removed from the structure to reveal the original clapboard siding beneath, while the gracious wraparound front porch was painstakingly restored to its former glory as well. To complete the transformation, the Zelonis’ selected a historically appropriate color palette.  Though Mark Zelonis admits it’s still a work in progress, the attention to detail and the obvious respect for the charm of the old home and its place in this historic Village are remarkable.

The Zelonis’ received the honor from Ralph Stacy, Award Committee Chairman, in a ceremony at Lincoln Park on May 15th. The award was given in conjunction with National Historic Month.  

Would you like to know more about the Lamplighter Award winners? Please click here. 

There is nothing like a picnic in the park, especially when its Lincoln Park, in the heart of our Village. This committee organizes our members only, pitch-in picnic is generally held on a Sunday in September  in Lincoln Park. If you are interested in serving, please sign-up at the next meeting. Photo Gallery