C-Street Market in May, 2009
The warm weather signals that we’re just a few weeks away from fresh, local grown veggies (and you get to meet the farmer!). The opening of Farmers Market season in SGF is Friday, May 7 at 4:30 p.m. The C-Street Market opens the following day at 9 a.m. Each will run weekly through October. Here’s a little taste from Donnie Rodgers for It’s All Downtown.
C-Street Market Commercial St and Jefferson Saturday 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
C-Street Market vendors tend towards small-scale farmers, bakers, crafters and talented artisan neighbors with a sense of entrepreneurship who yearn for a more intimate market experience. The C-Street Market is a celebration of food and locally-grown produce, where you can sample the goods and develop a relationship with the growers. You’ll enjoy freshly harvested fruits and vegetables, fresh ranch eggs, delightful bakery goods, bouquets of garden-grown flowers, herbs, organic produce, free-range fowl, and local handcrafts, often accompanied by the sounds of friendly, talented local musicians.
Friday Night Farmers Market Park Central East 4:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
Come experience a festival every Friday Night Farmers Market on Park Central East! Sample some of the areas best goods, including veggies, fruits, berries, baked goods, naturally-grown beef, floral, soaps, stained glass, and jewelry. The market will also feature great local bluegrass and acoustic live music each week.
Table wine has been tabled, attorney needs more time
SGF City Council tables Walgreens’ request to sell beer at the Kearney/National location. Store officials stress it will not be selling liquor or beer in single servings – nothing less than a 6 pack (no 40s or tallboys). This wouldn’t normally be an issue as Walgreens is licensed to sell beer and wine. Actually, other SGF stores will begin stocking alcohol on May 10, but the location is within 200 feet of Robberson Elementary School.
Disease in bats could effect Missouri crops
This is probably one of those stories that could have a big impact, but will get generally overlooked until we wake up one morning and mosquitoes are taking hostages. It’s reported from SGF by KBIA (Columbia, MO’s NPR).
A disease that’s killed between one and two million bats in eastern states has found its way to Missouri.
White Nose Syndrome is a fungus that gets on a bat’s face, ears and wings and deeply invades their skin tissues.
Bill Elliott, cave biologist for the Missouri Department of Conservation: “If we lose a lot of our bats, and that’s a distinct possibility, we’re going to see less mosquito control by bats, we’re going to see possibly more pests on row crops and on forests.”
Can you feed a family of four for a week on $68.88?
This story is slanted toward the weekly Food Stamp average for a family of four. That seems like a tight, but reasonable budget, even without the government cheese.
New businesses rolling into Commercial Street
Retail gem Queen City Emporium opened on Saturday, and it looks like the anticipation for C-Street Brewing won’t have to brew much longer (pun intended). We asked about Commercial’s development and it has responded with the additions of cool, new, unique-to-C-Street stops. More on these two spots to come soon.
(If you have any news tips or heard of new stores, restaurants or anything else opening locally, send me an email – Brett@TAGsgf.com. Or, if it’s old, but you think it’s swell, drop me a line, too.)
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