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Show B-8 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, June 9-12, 2012 ity' s r Ma ke Pa rk C t The Park Record Histo -Air ric Main Street Open Sundays, 10am - 5pm June 10 - September 23 On Park City's Historic Main Street Letter from Kimberly Kuehn (Public Toilet Bowl Fixer AK A CEO & Co-Founder): Welcome to the first ever Park Silly Sunday Market - Silly News! We are very excited to start the sixth season and look forward to seeing all of your smiling faces on Main Street this summer. There are so many people and different elements involved with Park Silly, and we want the community (YOU) to know about it! We believe this is the perfect communication tool to keep you posted on all of the awesome success stories, vendor highlights, collaborations, creative people, businesses and organizations that are involved. The success of the market has been a learning process and we have developed a sense of home with it. We should all be so PROUD of our community in putting together an event like this. The colors of our community make up this wonderful party on Main Street, as well as a great showcase to Park City's visitors. We would like to thank our first council and our current council for all of the opportunities that you have given the community, as well as our mayor, Dana Williams, for the continued support of Park Silly. And of course our sponsors - that ROCK THE HOUSE! We have a lot of exciting new things happening this year. Park Silly will be accepting food stamps at the Farmer's Market (located on 5th St, by the post office), a new Hula Hoop zone (across from 7th St), new Bouncy Houses, and we raised more money for our performers and musicians!!! YAHOO! (Keep our mayor and local musicians happy ). Silly Success Stories! The Park Silly Family could not continue without the love and support from the community. We appreciate it and look forward to providing more opportunities one market at a time. See you at the season opening tomorrow! Rob Hale has been a part of the Park Silly Sunday Market for the past two years. He started out making sushi rolls, but when you're placed next to Freshie's Lobster Cove making sushi can be a challenge. He saw an opportunity, but needed a new concept. Peace, Love & Kisses - Sincerely Silly, "I knew the sushi wasn't working but I wanted to steer away from the conventional hamburgers, tacos and pulled pork sandwiches. That's when grilled cheese came to mind, because what American doesn't like grilled cheese?" Kimberly Kuehn Thank you to our zero waste sponsor, Park City Mountain Resort for being with us since day one! PCMR really has been working towards taking steps in the right direction to keep Park City Mountains clean and beautiful. Even though PCMR is already a thriving Resort, they continue to make improvements. Park Silly Sunday Market (PSSM) has the same thoughts as PCMR on going green and always has! PCMR and PSSM make a great team, and without PCMR, our zero waste efforts would not be possible. During the Park Silly Sunday Markets 2011 season, we: Saw over 121,000 people we recycled: 121 Bags of Paper 103 Bags of Plastic 16 Bags of Aluminum 44 Bags to Compost 19 Bags to the Landfill Rob decided to apply for the first time, as an on-site cooking vendor and Melty Way. "The Park Silly Sunday Market was a perfect way to test out Melty Way. I got the experience to see if I could actually execute this and see people's reactions. It also helped me with food prep, we ran out of food at 12:30 the first week!" Luckily Rob had his business cards out, because his future business partner, Trevor Williams, grabbed one after he had a grilled cheese and discovered the buzz surrounding Melty Way. Since then they have been working on a Melty Way restaurant in Salt Lake City which is in the process of opening, and will be located in Fort Union on 7200 South 9 East. Luckily for us, Melty Way will be at the Park Silly Sunday Market again this summer. Make sure to stop by and try one of their delicious grilled cheeses! |