A Pierogi Drop Brings Wintery Enjoyable and Parma Persona to New Year’s Eve

Inspiration struck when Parma residents Bob and Kelly Lasecki had been sitting at a Key West bar within the fall of 2024 with their mates Kim and Vernon Tomblin. What if there was a pierogi drop from the roof of Bob’s bar, Sloppy Bob’s at midnight on New Year’s Eve? As the buddies riffed on the delightfully absurd thought Kim texted it to her neighbor, Parma mayor Timothy DeGeeter. 

This wasn’t only a half-baked and shortly to be forgotten drunken thought. The 4 actually wished to deliver their neighbors collectively, however the logistical challenges had been daunting — that’s till Mayor DeGeeter stepped in and backed the challenge as a approach to have fun Parma’s bicentennial. 

A gaggle of mates and neighborhood members lent their expertise to assemble the dropping mechanism and to design the star of the present, a 15-square-foot pierogi.

The metropolis shut down State Road because the New Years Eve revelers snaked from Sloppy Bob’s to neighboring bars Red Circle Lanes and Good Olde Daze (stopping in between to make snow angels and have snowball fights). 

As midnight approached, a number of hundred folks gathered round to observe the outsized dumpling drop right into a cup of bitter cream. 

“Who would have thought our crazy idea would actually happen?” says Kim Tomblin.