WEEK 13: What’s in the box this week?

Silverskin Garlic | Carrots | Summer Squash | Lettuce | Green Beans |Rossa Di Milano onions | Yukon Gold Potato | Beets 

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The next Parking and Business Improvement Area advisory board meeting is this Thursday August 14th from 6-8 pm.  On our agenda are updates from existing programs like the flower baskets, the $30,000 RFP for marketing/advertising, and holiday spending.  Also, we will be working out details of our annual meeting (Sept. 25th at Furniture Works) and our upcoming newsletter.

What’s more, PBIA meetings are open to the public.  Generally comment is limited to the beginning of the meeting in order to respect the time of the 14 volunteers who are on the board.  Questions, comments and positive ideas are welcome.

With a tear in my eye do I have to tell you that Carlene is calling it quits.

Abstractions Gallery will close their doors at the end of August.

Please take your time to say ‘Goodbye’ and take advantage of the final going-out-of-business sale while everything is deeply discounted.

Thanks for being a great neighbor in downtown Carlene and Jeff!

In our fourth installment of our “BE INSPIRED” series we are leaving the sophisticated world of TED Talks and enter the more shallow world of corporate behemoths’ using organized sporting events to bolster their market value. And we love it, at least the commercial - it almost made us cry.

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Wow!

The benches look gorgeous.

Thank you everyone involved for making this project something truly spectacular and lasting. [more]

Attention everyone!

We’re looking into creating an all inclusive, extensive list of every organization and institution that is in some way involved in Downtown Olympia.

Here is what we’re looking for and why:
Downtown is of great interest to a lot of people and many emotions, many stories many investments have been made and are being made into this great spot on this earth. [more]

As much as we thought Thursday was a better time, it seemed people had a hard time remembering the time and place and so, not many people showed up (or, perhaps it was the usual challenge of commitment, we shall see!) [more]

Governor Chris Gregoire along with Washington State Department of Agriculture and Washington State Farmers Market Association recently proclaimed August 3^rd-9^th as Washington Farmers Market Week.  In celebration they have issued a set of “Shopper Challenges”  where you can enter to win a bag of local goodies from your own Farmers Market.  To find out more about the proclamation and how to participate in the challenges visit: www.wafarmersmarkets.com/washingtonfarmersmarketweek.html.

Olympia’s Farmers Market is open Thursdays through Sundays from 10am-3pm.

It was a beautiful August evening and my husband and I were out enjoying downtown Olympia’s First Friday, where participating downtown businesses stay open later often having special events, speakers, and in this case local artisan cheese. We met Sharon and Kim McCool, the mother and daughter-in-law team of Rosecrest Farm at einmaleins where they had set up a table spread with two kinds of Swiss cheese, and samples. Samples always do the trick for me. [more]

So, I stumbled across this book: The Great Neigborhood Book, by the fine folks at PPS.

Well, I didn’t actually stumble across, Mark recommended it to me, and so I ordered it. And yes we have it for sale at einmaleins. (enough of the cheap sales tactic, on to the book review).

What can I say, but it blew me away! [more]