APM kicks off the start of summer and celebrates Annual Sugar Cane Festival's 20th anniversary
“You couldn’t have asked for a better day,” said Nilda Ruiz, CEO and president of the Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha.
On Saturday, the twentieth anniversary of the festival, music boomed, children played, Puerto Rican flags flew, and adults swayed under the hot midday sun. For APM CEO and President Nilda Ruiz, “you couldn’t have asked for a better day.”Avenue, between Diamond Street and Susquehanna Avenue, into a party plaza with music, food and games, and a social services resource fair with information on jobs, health care, and financial supports.
Ruiz said there was another reason they held this year’s festival on the 2100 and 2200 blocks of Germantown Avenue. “We’re here because we are going to rehab this area,” said Ruiz, who shared APM’s vision not only of a state-of-art daycare center but also new commercial space for retail and restaurants.started operating the city’s first sugar refinery in 1881 and was later acquired by the National Sugar Refining Company, better known as Jack Frost, in 1947.
The Jack Frost complex grew to 18 buildings, but in the early 1980s the refinery halted operations and sold the property. Eventually the SugarHouse Casino, which was rebranded as Rivers Casino in 2019, was built on top of the old refinery.
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