Events
Celebrating Brookside Recreation Adventures On Five Mile Creek
Brookside Greenway Festival
April 5, 2008
Brookside Alabama on Five Mile Creek
9 am until dark
FREE admission
MISS GREENWAY PAGEANT
Time: 10 am -12 noon Wee, Tiny and Little Miss
2 pm - 4 pm Petite, Junior and Miss
Place: Brookside Greenway Festival
Cost: $25.00, Make checks payable to: Cawaco RC&D Council
(note: Brookside restricted fund.) Considered a charitable
donation to the Five Mile Creek Greenway. (click for more information)
MOUNTAIN BIKE RACE
Russian Wild Boar Off-road Duathlon
Race starts 10 AM
All terrain loop (Registration form click here)
Regions 5K Run
5k and fun run
Run starts at 8 am (Registration form click here)
Free Music Venue: FREE
Alex Swindle: Elvis Tribute, 12:30-1:30 pm
Back In Time performs from 4:30-6 pm.
www.backintimeoldies.com
Arts and Crafts
The Brookside Greenway Festival Arts and Crafts Committee cordially invites you to display your handmade arts and crafts at the Brookside Greenway Festival.
9:00 am until 4 pm
Brookside Park, Brookside, Alabama
Located just 12 miles or 20 minutes northwest of Birmingham
Application Deadline March 1, 2008
$25.00 exhibitor fee is donated to the development of the Brookside Greenway.
The Brookside Greenway Festival promotes public awareness of the creation of greenspace along Five Mile Creek in Brookside, Alabama. Over 2,000 people in attendance in 2007.
Rules for the event Application for exhibitors
EAT
Early Breakfast – sponsored by Church of God
Picnic Lunch – sponsored by Bivens Chapel Methodist Church
Russian Desserts – sponsored by Sister’s of St. Olga, Brookside Russian Orthodox Church
CANOE
Five Mile Creek
Family Canoe Rides 10-3 pm
Sponsored by Five Mile Canoe and Company
Sign up for rides at the festival
FISH
Five Mile Creek
Brookside Greenway Fishing Tournament
7 am-12 noon
Register at the festival 6-7 am
ROAD BICYCLE RIDE
Metric Century Frenchie Negron Classic Ride
Ride begins at 7 am
click for registration form
See photos from the 2007 Greenway Festival: www.Farleyphotography.photoreflect.com
Final Report on March 17, 2007 Brookside Greenway Festival
For the first time in many years, Brookside, Alabama had a traffic jam due the success of the first Brookside Greenway Festival on March 17, 2007. The small west Jefferson County town made over $10,000. Most of the operating expenses were covered by generous donations from local business, utilities and personal donations. The food was so good that the wild game concession at the pavilion closed early. Hamburgers and hot dog booths ran out of food late in the day. The Miss Greenway pageant brought in hundreds of family members who squeezed into the huge pageant tent to see over seventy girls compete in six age categories.
The Regions 5k Run and Brookside Russian Boar Scramble mountain bike race drew contestants from Hoover, Gardendale, McCalla, Jacksonville, Vestavia and Tuscaloosa. The Birmingham Bicycle Club sponsored an unsupported ride with ten and thirty mile loops on the steep, but scenic hills around Brookside. In honor of the local bicycle state champion and former mayor of Cardiff in the early 1900’s, the ride was named the “Frenchie” Negron Classic. Local relatives of Papa Negron attended the festival and purchased the Negron Classic t-shirt to send to relatives in France.
Families enjoyed short and long rides on Five Mile Creek in canoes provided by the Five Mile Creek Canoe and Company canoe livery. For early risers, the fishing tournament began at 7 am and lasted until noon with great cash prizes. During all the events the music stage provided country, gospel, bluegrass, and popular music. Over forty volunteers contributed their time and expertise in the planning and executing of the event. The proceeds will go to the development of the Brookside Greenway as Brookside reinvents itself as a recreation destination. Cawaco RC&D Council and the Five Mile Creek Greenway Partnership provided support for the event.
Russian Festival
The first weekend in November the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church in Brookside holds the Russian Food Festival. Begun in 1981, the event increases in attendance each year. St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church welcomes you to its annual Food Festival held the first full weekend in November of each year. Tours of the temple are available.
The ladies of the Sisterhood of St. Olga have prepared the food and pastries from recipes handed down from relatives and friends who immigrated to Brookside from Western Ukraine and what is now known as Slovakia. Be sure to visit our Russian Beriozka Store for imported gifts and souvenirs.
Take-out or eat in.
Take a look at the 2007 menu
