BY ANGELA KOENIG
The Cincinnati Enquirer
GREEN TOWNSHIP -- Imagine making baked potato soup, black bean soup and spicy chicken nachos for 10,000 or more people -- for the first time.
IF YOU GO
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What: Taste of Green Township. Where: Kuliga Park, 6717 Bridgetown Road.
When: Noon to 11 p.m. Saturday and noon to 9 p.m Sunday.
Parking: On-site parking and continuous shuttle bus service from Oak Hills High School, 3200 Ebenezer Road, and John Foster Dulles Elementary School, 6481 Bridgetown Road.
Cost: Admission is free.
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That's what Tom Lambrinides, the co-owner of Nick and Tom's Restaurant & Bar, expects he'll be doing this weekend at Kuliga Park for the first Taste of Green Township.
The eatery is one of 15 restaurants participating.
There will be continuous live entertainment, children's activities and crafts booths, event chair Jane Grossheim said.
Among the bands featured will be Bill Haley's Comets on Saturday and the Goshorn Brothers on Sunday.
Exactly how many people will attend is unknown.
"It's a first, so we don't really know," Mrs. Grossheim said, "but we're hoping for 10,000 . . . maybe 20,000" people if the weather is nice.
Those numbers aren't so farfetched, considering the 12th annual Blue Ash taste last year drew about 250,000 and Colerain Township's ninth taste drew about 33,000 people. Both of those, though, are three-day events.
Green Township Administrator Tom Maley said the township is prepared to handle high numbers.
Earlier this year, electrical service, at a cost of $20,000, was installed at Kuliga Park, "for this and the other events that are held there."
The largest event the township sponsors at the park is a summer concert. That draws about 10,000 in one day, Mr. Maley said, adding, "We now have ample power there to keep everybody running smoothly." Vendors will be lined up along the blacktop area, and there will be on-site parking and shuttle buses.
If the organizer's hopes are realized, Mr. Lambrinides said he's ready.
"If they're eating it, we can make it 24 hours a day."
