Happy October!!!
Fall is here in The Castro, marked by our first significant rain this week. Let’s hope that there still are a few clear, sunny “San Francisco summer” days ahead. After a busy September with the successful Folsom and Castro Street Fairs, we now look forward to Fall and the year-end Holidays.
Halloween is fast approaching – that’s always a busy time in The Castro. Many City Departments, led by the S.F. Police Department and its Mission Station will continue the theme "Home for Halloween" as they have done for the past few years. This recently has worked very well for The Castro, allowing us to celebrate our Halloween traditions with a balance of locals and visitors alike having a good time, without the unfortunate problems from a few years ago. I want to thank Mission Station Captain Greg Corrales, Sergeant Chuck Limbert and everyone at SFPD and many other City Departments for the excellent job they do with this and all events in The Castro. Sgt. Limbert will be at MUMC’s Members Meeting this Thursday, October 6 at 9:00am at EVRC, to outline plans for this year’s Halloween, and to answer your questions.
MUMC’s also getting ready for the big year-end Holiday Season!! Current 2011 MUMC Members received a mailing this week with details, including how YOUR business can be a full participant. We hope many Members will respond promptly, as you do every year – thank you!
Starting around Thanksgiving, The Castro once again will be in a full festive mood to entice locals and visitors alike to come out to Shop, Eat, Drink and Stay in The Castro. MUMC again this year will anchor the Holiday theme with our big 24’ Holiday Tree in front of Bank of America, bright red bows on the Market Street Median Palm Trees, and the big colorful Donor Banner hanging at 18th & Castro. The Tree this year will again follow the traditional decorating theme of large balls in various colors, accented with gold decorations, and topped by the 4’ lighted star. It all will officially kick off with our Tree Lighting Ceremony on Monday, November 28 at 6:00pm at the Tree, with music and song, Santa and his elf, a blessing by The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, City dignitaries, festively emceed by the incomparable Donna Sachet. Everyone’s invited – mark your calendar NOW!
To continue the Holiday theme throughout The Castro, we encourage merchants to decorate storefronts and show windows with multi-color lights to help make The Castro festive!!!
You’ll receive a separate message later today with details of the San Francisco Council of District Merchant Associations (SFCDMA) Annual Dinner on October 27 at Patio Espanol Restaurant. As The City’s largest neighborhood merchant group, MUMC is a key SFCDMA member. We should have a strong presence at the Dinner, to show support for this Citywide coalition which helps support small and neighborhood businesses in San Francisco. Please consider joining us – it would be great to have one or more “MUMC Tables” of 8 Members. See today’s separate email for more information and how to get tickets.
Please join us for MUMC’s next monthly Members Meeting, this Thursday, October 6 starting at 9:00am sharp at EVRC – for details, see the Meeting Notice and Agenda emailed to you yesterday, and posted on the Home Page at MUMC’s website, www.CastroMerchants.com.
Thanks for supporting MUMC !
- Steve
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