Silver City MainStreet & Arts and Cultural District Community Collaboration Meeting Minutes November 5, 2020

Category: Community News Community News
Published: 05 November 2020 05 November 2020

If you would like to join these meetings please reach out to Brenda at scmsinfo@silvercitymainstreet.com to get added to the list.

Attendees: Patrick Hoskins, Karen Beck, Steven Chavira, Kitty Clemens, Brandy Leeper, Lee Gruber, Susan Allen, Andrea Warner, Alexandra Tager, Carissa Guild, Ted Presler, Bernadette Smyth, Lucy Whitmarsh, Melody Collins, Charmeine Wait, and Brenda Tozier.

Guest Presenter: N/A

MainStreet Report: 8 Cash Mobs to promote shopping locally safely. Downtown decorations and holiday banners being put up. Holiday Merchant Window contest and Ugly holiday face mask promotion. Parade cancelled this year.

Visitor Center Report: About a dozen visitors each day in comparison with 45-60 this time last year. 12-month landscape plan to beautify the visitor center grounds. Film crew will be here next week to start a video and update google street view.
Discussion:

Kitty Clemens – SW NM Council of Governments Working on a Headstart grant and
CEDS should be 100% complete soon. Getting info for reporting that can be used by
MainStreet

Susan Allen – MainStreet Board Member Christmas trees will be put up with on at
the Visitor Center that will have homemade hats for those in need.

Brandy Leeper – Little Toad Creek Brewery They will be doing the Thanksgiving
dinner as a 5-course meal that can be taken to go as well as inside/outside seating.
Outside has a nice fire pit and heaters. Call for reservations. Christmas Gift packages
for the holidays. Infused beer (new one each week). Brenda asked for some flyers to
add to the Brochure racks.

Karen Beck – GCCCA The GCCCA presents " At Your Home for the Holidays " a free
virtual concert for the entire community to enjoy. Anytime from Friday Dec 4th thru
Sunday Dec 6th go to gcconcerts.org and click on the link to watch this wonderful
holiday concert.
* "At Your Home for the Holidays" is a fun-filled family holiday program.
* Approximately 90 minutes long, the show includes warm holiday favorites and fun sing-along tunes.
* It will feature presentations from favorite past and present Live On Stage artists like
* Sons of Serendip
* Tajci Cameron
* Sultans of String
* Celtic Angels
* The show is emceed by actor/comedian Brandon Gibson who has appeared in shows on Netflix, Disney Channel as well as Nickelodeon's Kid's Choice Awards and has starred in and over 50 national commercials.
For more information call 575-5238-5862 or email gccca@gcconcerts.org

Steve Chavira – County Chamber of Commerce and Conference Doing economic activities for business expansion and retention. Encouraging Shop Local as it is soo important to do so this year.

Lee Gruber – SWNMACT WaterWorks initiative and would love people to come by and see what has been going on. Cleaing up and planting fruit trees and flowers. 12 people now participating in the CoStarters Cohorts!

Andrea Warner – Farmer’s Market Manager Andrea also does a corona virus radio update so let her know what your business is doing and she will get it out there. https://grantcountycoronavirusupdate.org/ or email her maderacupco@gmail.com

Wednesday Market now closed but Saturday Winter Market will remain. See closed
th th nd st dates for the holiday November 28 , December 26 , and January 2 . November 21
the Harvest market/Holiday Market.
Alexandra Tager - WNMU Lots of great events coming and you can get more information here: https://admin.wnmu.edu/cultural/#gsc.tab=0 Silver City Recycling doing great. A new flyer will be coming out with instructions. Can email her to get flyer at alexandra.tager@wnmu.edu

Carissa Guild – Guadalupe Montessori School looking for more ways on fundraising and marketing artists. Will get with Andrea about the Farmer’s Market.

Bernadette – Grant County Community Foundation Working on a Covid relief fund
and much more!

Ted Presler - SW Festival of the Written Word Looking to do a hybrid festival.
Virtual and may be able to get more authors that they were not able to get before.

Melody Collins – SC Museum Working on an online shopping store. Will be doing a
Cash Mob on December 2nd.

Next meeting will be Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 9am, invitation to follow the
week before.

Meeting adjourned

If you would like to join these meetings please reach out to Brenda at scmsinfo@silvercitymainstreet.com to get added to the list.

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