Cheryl Eagleson, Marketing Director

Findlay Market is Open for Business!

Thank you to everyone who has expressed their concern for the merchant community and the historic buildings in the Market Square that were damaged in the recent fire.  Six 19^th century Italianate architectural structures have medium to light fire, smoke and water damage.

The good news is that neither the market house nor any of the businesses that occupy buildings in the Market Square are damaged.

We thank all our shoppers and the merchants for your amazing cooperation in an orderly and successful evacuation of the Market when the fires began.

We also thank firefighters from Engine Companies 21, 3, 12 and 17 for their bravery and effective efforts to extinguish fires from the buildings both on Elm Street and along the Market Square.

We want you to know that the Market has never lost electricity, is open regular hours and there is no interruption of business.  

Please support these family owned businesses and shop Findlay Market!

The following is a brief description of events of Sunday afternoon to help you understand what happened:

Around 3:00 pm Sunday afternoon, strong winds peeled the roof off of the building M&F Market occupies on the SW corner of Elm and Elder Streets.  Large pieces of metal roof fell onto the power lines along Elder Street, causing a short.  The transformer on that corner exploded about 15 minutes later and sparks from that explosion set the M&F Market building on fire.  

As it burned, windblown burning debris set a window frame on the Globe building on fire and started fires at Leader Furniture and two of the North Addition buildings.  There were, at one point, four fire companies and 18 fire trucks deployed around the market.  M&F Market is seriously damaged.  Leader Furniture appears not to have suffered structural damage, but there is extensive smoke and water damage to the interior and inventory and all the glass on the upper floors is broken out.  

The Globe building lost one large window frame on the third floor, plate glass at street level, and glass in several other windows.  The North Addition building at 120 West Elder, behind Silverglades and Angelina, lost some upper floor windows.  The North Addition Building at 114 West Elder, suffered a roof fire and there is minor smoke and water damage on the first floor.  Eckerlin Meats was not damaged and will be able to reopen this week.  

Numerous metal doors will have to be replaced because the fire department pried them open, and there is minor drywall damage in several areas as a result of the fire department's quick action.

Mark you calendars to attend and support these upcoming events:

Saturday, September 20^th, noon - 1:00pm  ballet tech Cincinnati

The performance will include a variety of dance styles and music performed by ballet tech cincinnati company members and students. 

Excerpts from the upcoming October 3-4^th Aronoff Center premier of East vs. West Side Story will headline the performance. East vs. West Side Story is about the Jets and Sharks, but now they're in Cincinnati - the West Side Jets dance hip hop/video pop and the East Side Sharks dance ballet and jazz. Original choreography by J. Karin Bond-Williams, Amy Harpring, Kasib Hasan and Ben Walker II will blend classical ballet and jazz with hip hop and a unique spin on the soundtrack to bring the classic story to life with lots of Cincinnati flavor! 

Featuring a diverse, highly talented cast of professional, pre-professional, youth and community dancers, this show will bring the entire community together to celebrate the best of the East and the West!

The new ballet tech Cincinnati Hip Hop Crew, Krucial, will perform a hip hop routine and the show will be rounded out with performances by the ballet tech cincinnati Baby Ballerinas, young dancers under the age of 10, Adult Tap Dancers led by Mary Ella Berta and a Salsa demonstration by instructor Amos Brown. "Dance Along" segments will encourage audience participation by inviting audience members to learn and perform the steps along with the performers. 

Scripps-Corbett Award winner, ballet tech cincinnati was awarded the Innovation Award because of its excellent, innovative and diverse performances and its proven mastery of community outreach.  Recently, ballet tech cincinnati became a Finalist for the ONE Award because of its operational excellence and quality.

Learn more about ballet tech at www.ballettechcincinnati.org

First Annual Artisan Jewelry Fair

Sunday, September 28^th  11-4 in the farm shed.    12 local artists showing and selling their hand-crafted items for sale.  Artists include those who work with semi-precious stones, lamp beads, bone and wood crafted beads, as well as a stone cutter and a setter.  Participants include:

Dorothea Snead - Dorothea's Jazzy Jewelry--creative, affordable designs. Dorothea works with the Sarah Center.

Teresa Williams--Hand crafted bracelets, earrings and necklaces

Oodles of Jewelry--Whimsical designs

Exquisite Accessories--A Findlay Market regular, Rhonda Towns creates one of a kind pieces of jewelry for any occasion.

Brenda Johnson--unique designs and combinations. She works with precious metals as well as beads.

Jewels by Vernita - Another Findlay Market Regular, Vernita's  impressive designs often feature large stones and beads.

Sue and Seck--Two hip folks working with nature, wrapped stones, beads made of natural materials and a few surprises.

Amy Wallace of Oven Fried Beads--creates her own polymer clay beads. The creator of the stacker bead. Come and find out more.

Bob Bauer, Coral Reef Jewelers - Bob is a Design artist, Lapidarist, gemologist.  Unique designs inspired by nature with emphasis on opals, precious colored gems set in platinum or gold.

Wild Design--Lara Radkey works with the energy of the stones to create one of a kind concept pieces. She enhances her artwork by creating aromatherapy and body care products that also work with the same energies.

Marian Brown--lamp bead artist. She creates her own beads and then makes one of kind designs using those beads.

Barb Galler- Makes her own beads and designs.

Sunflower, Native American flute player will provide music from noon - 2:00pm.

See you at the Market!