Let the Holidays begin!!
We are open for The Holiday Market today from 11 to 1 in the (enclosed and heated) market pavilion.
Since 2005, the market has opened the day before Thanksgiving so our customers can grace theirThanksgiving table with the food, produce, and gifts grown and made by their neighbors.
We expect most of our vendors, including three ranchers – Madewell Pork, Garrett Family Farm and Sunny Lane Farm.
Stewart’s Bakery is serving Tortilla Soup for eat-in or take-out. Doesn’t that sound like an easy tasty meal for tomorrow night? Linda is also making cranberry relish, as well as pies and rolls and other delights.
We’ll have at least two honey growers, several candy makers – fudge, pralines, and brittle. Terrell Creek will have their award-winning goat cheese. We’ll have four bakers including a gluten-free baker.
The Christkindlmarket will include jewelry, woodcrafts, and soaps.
Scott Eastman will be on the market stage.
Soroptimists will be on hand with their nuts and other treats. This is their major fundraiser of the year and supports their summer camp for foster kids and other local programs helping women and girls. Soroptimists is one of the organizations that funded the market’s WIC program last summer.
Another fundraiser that supported the market’s WIC program, was and is Empty Bowls. We will have a nice selection of handcrafted bowls at the market today. They’d make a lovely addition to your table or gift.
Folks can pick up free tickets to the Polar Bear Express that runs from 9 to noon on December 2, 9, and 16 at the information desk.
Saturday we begin the Christmas season. I know, we’re late according to modern retail calendars, but we choose to celebrate one holiday at a time!
Richard Hughes will delight us with Christmas music Saturday. Stewart’s Bakery will serve the usual delicious breakfast. There will also be pinto beans with ham and cornbread for $5 a pint for eat-in or take-out.
You can celebrate Small Business Saturday this Saturday in a big way at the market where you will find some 30 small businesses in one spot. But we’re just the beginning. Head north on Main Street in Webb City and you will find sevenshops new to downtown – gift shops, clothing shops, specialty shops and more. Four are on Main Street, two more on Liberty and a seventh across from the post office on Daughtery. For those of us who love downtown, this is exciting news. Shop Small this Saturday and help us build a downtown as lively and successful as the market.
