Today`s Highlights, September 19, 2015

Today’s Highlights, September 19, 2015
SATURDAY MARKET NEWSLETTER
September 19, 2015 • VOL. 46- NO. 25
30 E. Broadway #124, Eugene, OR 97401
(541) 686-8885•fax (541) 338-4248
www.eugenesaturdaymarket.org
[email protected]
• Holiday Market Postcards Now Available!
• Want to make an Elf?!
• Sign Up Now for Holiday Market Work Tasks!
• Unclassifieds, Weather, Meetings and more on the other side
MARKETPLACE • COMMUNITY • CELEBRATION
From Kimberly
Well, we finally got some rain
this week!
Rain… clouds… long hours in
the studio or kitchen… they all seem
to go together.
For those of you doing Holiday
Market; now is a good time to crank
up your production and decide if you
are going to introduce new products.
Our final product screening this year
will be November 4th.
There are still eight Saturday
Market Park Blocks days this year
after today; plenty of time to work
on displays, assess your product selection and continue to build your
customer base.
Have an awesome day!
Kimberly
Holiday Market Postcards
We now have plenty of Holiday
Market postcards for you to distribute to your customers. There’s room
on the back for addresses if you want
to mail them, or your own specific
booth information. Some folks even
include a “percentage off with this
card” message. Pick some up at the
Info Booth today or the office during the week. Extra perfect if you’re
doing various fall art festivals out of
town!!
Holiday Market Update
Booking: Vi continues the Holiday Market booking process and
is working with members with 5
points. It’s not too late to submit a
Holiday Market application if you
haven’t yet, there are still spaces
available!
Work Tasks: work task sign up
sheets are now available on the table
next to the Info Booth. Sign up for a
work task, and complete it to get the
$25 refund. You can have another
Market member complete your task
for you if you wish, but the sign up
must be under your name.
Committee Corner
The Standards Committee met
last Wednesday. They crafted a revised scent guideline and sound
guideline that they are sending to
the Board for approval. They are also
sending a recommendation that pipe
sales be allowed at Market. They
decided to leave the Intra-Market
transaction guidelines stand as they
are. Their next meeting will be October 14 at 5 PM.
Manager Evaluations
The Personnel Committee is
of­fering you a chance to evaluate
the performance of General Manager Kimberly Cullen and Promotions Manager Kim Still. Evaluation forms are avail­able at the Info
Booth. Please seal your forms in the
provided envelope marked “confidential.” You can drop the forms off
at the Info Booth or send them to
the Office, where they will be placed
in a locked box and given to the Personnel Committee for review. The
deadline for these forms to be turned
in is Sept. 26.
Holiday Market Elves!
The Holiday Market Opening
Weekend special promotion this year
will be an “I Spy Elves” game to get
folks circulating all through the Market. We are hoping that more than
several of you will be willing to create
an elf of some kind using your fantastic artistic powers. Or maybe you’re
already working on it! You will be
displaying this elf in your booth on
opening weekend, Nov. 21-22, and
then donating it for “adoption” by
one of the lucky winners.
We will make a fun card/entry
form with “elf selfie” pictures of each
of the elves. Customers will have to
write down the booth number of
where they saw each elf to enter.
We will put a minimum number
to find in order to have a chance
to win one of these elf shaped
works of art. We will also offer
a good grand prize drawing for
those who locate all the elves.
If you are planning on
making an elf, please let Kim
Still know. She’ll be wanting
to get a photo in advance for
promo purposes. Write it on
your envelope, tell her in person, or drop a line to kimstill
@eugenesaturdaymarket.org.
Thanks!!
Coming in October...
We have set the date for our annual Market Wide Sale to take place
on October 24. This is a day with
no Duck game at all. It’s a voluntary
sale day, but we do some extra promotions to get folks to the Market.
Halloween also takes place on
a Saturday this year! The downtown merchants have several family
friendly events planned for the day,
including a trick-or-treat route for
kids in the afternoon that we’ll be
included on. We’ll also have some
kind of fun member costume contest, so start working on those outfits! More details coming as the day
approaches.
Market Street Team
The Market Street Team be
meeting again in October (date
TBA). Our intention for this group
is to look at Market’s image and ways
to improve community perception;
encourage YOU to volunteer to do
guerrilla market, and field ideas on
how to promote our Saturday Market. Currently we are exploring the
possibility of making a souvenir
Market guide/booklet for next season that would include individual
booth ads. If you are interested in
our work, please join us! Look for
the meeting date in the next Newsletter.
Local Events
Sept. 19 - Ducks vs Georgia State, 11AM
Sept. 26 - Ducks vs Utah
Oct. 10 - Ducks vs. Washington
Oct. 24 - Marketwide Sale (no Ducks
Game at all anywhere)
The Market Corner
Happy Happy
Birthday to fiber
artist
Catherine
Heising and artist
Cheryl
Rade
yesterday, jeweler Mary SteinbergPichey today, fiber artist Taryn
Wilson on Monday, game maker
Chris Pender on Tuesday, and
clothing artist Cada Johnson and
hair stick maker Ed Phillips on
Wednesday!!
The Kareng Fund is an emergency
relief fund set up to help low income,
self-employed artisans and their
families who experience a serious
career threatening crisis. You can
make donation any time, just specify
your donation on the front of your
payment envelope. You can “round
up” your fees to easily donate a little
each week. Thanks!
There’s a private Facebook group
for Market members, just search for
“Eugene Saturday Market Members”
and request to be included. We
also have a member only email
newsletter that we send occasionally
for important news. Subscribe at
tinyletter.com/saturdaymarket
Theft Prevention Help: Are you
interested in getting theft prevention
tips? If so, please write this on your
payment envelope and we will make
an effort to connect our contracted
security/crowd
management
personnel with you in the next few
weeks to take a look at your set-up
and give you personalized feedback
and suggestions.
Weather
UnClassifieds
To place your free unclassified, bring it to the
info booth by the end of the day, to the office
by Thursday afternoon, or e-mail to kimstill@
eugenesaturdaymarket.org, put “newsletter” in the
subject line.
Vintage cast iron woodstove. Small, approx box
size 3’x1’, legs approx 1’ tall. Cute, sold as a
decorative collectible. $250. Deb, booth #200,
541-747-9864. (9/19)
Due to such an early farming season, Renaissance
Pizza will be bringing their October Special to
Market for the rest of September. Our Garlic
Lover’s Pizza has sliced organic red bell peppers
from Groundwork Organics Farm, whole roasted garlic cloves and is finished with our organic
extra virgin olive oil and garlic sauce! (9/19)
Clean, used amber and cobalt bottles for sale.
These are great for tinctures and infusions. Selling
the 16 oz. size for .75 cents/unit (lids included)
and the 4 oz. size for .50/unit, lids included. The
wholesale price at Uline for a case of twelve of the
16 oz size is $19.80, not including shipping. The
bottles formerly contained aloe gel, chlorophyll,
essential oils, etc. I removed the plastic diffusers,
washed, and sterilized Total available: 5 dozen of
the 16 oz. and 2 dozen of the 4 oz. size, mostly
amber and some cobalt. Plus assorted ½ oz., 1
oz., 2 oz., and 8 oz. amber bottles, lids, droppers, etc. $40 buys the whole lot. Good deal! Call
(541) 726-8368 or 541-844-6972 (9/12)
We have two “bar stool” director chairs… natural oak, like new, with beige covers: $25.00 each.
Call 541-935-9596. Cathy & Bill. (9/5)
Vintage 70s Fender electric lead guitar, black,
original case, $450. Ludwig Black Beauty snare
drum, $400, stand $75. Deb, booth 200 or 541747-9864 (9/5)
I will do your Holiday Market work task for you
in exchange for part of the refund. David Duckett, Mill Creek Wood Works, 541-228-2933,
[email protected]. (9/5)
Ritta’s Burritos’ September special is a BLT&C
Queso-Melt. Jack and feta cheese, melted on two
grilled tortillas then layered with crispy bacon,
slices of fresh, local tomatoes, and romaine lettuce, with avocado ranch dressing. It’s still summer at Ritta’s (9/5)
Lambs wool mattress cover King size, new $295,
now $30. Extralarge Pet Porter
Dog Kennel $45.
541-937-2027
or 541-505-2628
(8/28)
White Gift boxes
for sale 4 different sizes for jewelry or small gifts,
Necklace, ear ring
displays,
forms
and one display
case left all glass
and metal, with
carrying
case.
Other
assorted
Items for a small
business
from
Saturday Market.
Mary, gmmkuh@
yahoo.com (8/29)
12 white weights,
18” long, 4-5 lb
each. $2 ea or $20
for all 12. I have
them with me today in booth 177.
Sally Miller, 907223-8008 (8/15)
Perfect weather
again! Areas of
fog before 11am.
Otherwise, mostly
cloudy, then
gradually becoming
sunny, with a high
near 79. Calm wind becoming north 5 to 8
mph in the afternoon.
sales, O sales, sales I hope!
-ancient Market incantation (Nov 3, 1973 b.c.e.)
On the Market Stage
10:00 AM The Dirty Dandelions -Newtime folkgrass band
11:00 AM Fooble the Dragon -Fooble
the Dragon’s Story Magic
12:00 PM 39th Avenue -talented young
jazz group
1:00 PM Brian Cutean -Acoustadelic
Gypsyhooplamojobop
Metafablemedicine
2:00 PM Paul & Nancy’s Love Truffle
-Sgt. Abbey’s Pepper Road
3:30 PM The Geo 4 -fresh, original, jazzy
Committee Meetings
Board of Directors
Weds. Oct. 7, 5:15 PM
Agenda: weather/heat policy, service lines,
reserve fees, code of conduct
Standards Committee
Weds. Oct. 7, 5:00 PM
Agenda: TBA
Standards Screenings
Weds. Oct. 7, Oct. 21, Nov. 4, 4:15 PM
Holiday Market Committee
Weds. Oct. 14, 4:00 PM
Agenda: elves, fence decor, poster, evaluations
Food Court Committee
Thursday, Oct. 1, 11:00 AM
Agenda: food court vacancy recommendation,
banners, lighting, specials
Market Street Team
October TBA
Agenda: souvenir booklet planning
Board of Directors Election
Saturday, December 12-13
All meetings take place at the Market Office, 30 E.
Broadway #124, Eugene. All are welcome!
Credit Card Sales
Market accepts Visa, Mastercard, Discover &
American Express. Send your customer to the
Info Booth with a properly filled out credit card
slip (avail at Info Booth). Your check for the
amount of the sale less 5% for bank charges will
be ready on Wednesday at noon at the office or
mailed at the end of the day Wednesday.
THE SATURDAY MARKET BOARD
OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
Chairperson - Paulette Richards • Vice Chairperson
- Willy Gibboney • Secretary - Diane McWhorter •
Treasurer - Maggie Quinlan••Kelly Durian, Julia Garretson, Paula Marie Gourley, Alex Lanham, David Lee,
Maria Moule
Holiday Market Co-Chairs - Paula Marie Gourley,
Alan Pointer • Standards Committee Co-Chairs
- Teresa Pitzer, Lynn Brown • Food Committee CoChairs - Colleen Bauman, Ritta Dreier • Sustainability Committee Co-Chairs - Teresa Pitzer • Caroline
Dunn
General Manager - Kimberly Cullen
Promotions & Advertising Manager - Kim Still
Membership Services Coordinator - Vi Sadhana
Site Crew Supervisor - Joe Goodwin
Address - 30 E. Broadway #124, Eugene, 97401
Phone - (541) 686-8885 • Fax - (541) 338-4248
E-mail - [email protected]