LEXINGTON ON ICE
In the thumb of Michigan
FEBRUARY 8, 2009, TIMES HERALD NEWSPAPER
After a recount - Steis's Village Inn Won Best Pizza In Lexington!
Treve's Pizza In Croswell took second place by only 3 votes!
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George Lawson of Lexington looks at melted high heel shoe sculpture with his
children Sarah, 6 and Edward, 9 during the third annual Lexington Ice festival
Saturday in Downtown Lexington. Despite the ice-melting temperatures hundreds
of visitors watched ice carving demonstrations and sampled some of the area's
best tasting pizzas in the pizza cook-off.
ICE FEST HEATS UP TOWN - SCULPTURES, PIZZA COOK OFF BRING VISITORS TO LEXINGTON By Stephen Tait
LEXINGTON - In the middle of carving a hunk of ice into a heart and two lovebirds in downtown Lexington Saturday, Sean O'Rourke took a small break. He stood up and declared: "The town's hopping today, baby." With temperatures hovering around 45 degrees, hundreds of people gathered for Lexington On Ice, the third annual winter time festival. The event features ice carvings -- which by midday Saturday were breaking apart because of the warm temperatures -- sledding and, new this, a pizza cook off. Phil Essenmacher, vice president of the Lexington Business Association and owner of Lakeshore Market who helped organize the event, said the festival continut4es to grow each year. "Every year it keeps getting bigger: the amount of activities and the number of people who show up," he said. This year, more than 400 people went to the pizza cook off, which squared seven area pizza makers off against each other. |
The pizza joints offered everything from chicken
Caesar salad and breakfast pizza (complete with eggs) to the more traditional
pepperoni and meat lovers.As of late afternoon Saturday, it was unclear
who won the event. Essenmacher, who competed with his Lakeshore Market
pizza, said after the first vote tally, there was a tie between Treve's Pizza
and Steis's Village Inn. Aaron Treve, the son of the owner of Treve's
Pizza, said the turnout at the event was impressive. "It's good for
the community," he said. Regina Roegner, an employee at The Town
Shop downtown, said it is nice to have an influx of people during an otherwise
slow time. "It's nice to have people walk through town," she
said, adding that each year "it keeps getting bigger."
Essenmacher said he hopes the event will continue to grow. l He said plans for
next year already include an ice skating area. "Everybody comes to
Lexington for the summertime," he said. "In the wintertime we
are still here. There is a lot of fun to be had here, so we are creating
fun for people to come up and enjoy."
Click here to read the Times Herald Newspaper Article February 7, 2009
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Nykoelas Manning (above), 7, looks over a pizza up for tasting at the
Lexington Lions Club during the Lexington On Ice festival Saturday.
