NEXT Weekend: Reptile Expo Joins Music Fest

The Mesa Convention Center will be the go-to place Sat & Sun Nov 14 & Nov 15 for all those horny and scaled cold-blooded creatures we all have learned to love and fear.

phxreptileexpo.com

[$2 Off coupon on website]

Between the Mesa Music Fest on Nov 13-15 and this Reptile Expo, the Marriott on Centennial is already sold-out and booked to the max - other hotels on Main Street will no doubt be flooded with reservations

Grand Opening Nov 6 > New Business

Pole Barn @ 56 S Center Street across the street from Mesa Arts Center and slightly north of First Avenue is having an opening 6-9 p.m. featuring Primitives.
Antiques
Country Wares
Outdoor Décor
Vintage Goods

Mesa Living Green? Fake Christmas Tree! Oh My!

Santa Claus will be freakin' out about this goofy idea
Get real
If the city wants to go "artificial"
Why not just light up that "Cone" at the Center Street Station?
Who's bad idea is this?
Some call it a "one-time" investment ...

Retailers and others want the border retail zone expanded

Fast Promo > Matt Pinfield speaks about Mesa Music Festival

Update on Veterans Day Parade + Events

New route for East Valley Veterans Parade in Mesa

Post Date: 11/04/2015 2:09 PM
Estimates of over 40,000 people will be arriving in downtown Mesa for this annual parade. Recent changes with details were made today by the Public Information & Communications Office
http://www.mesaaz.gov/Home/Components/News/News/628/

The East Valley Veterans Parade returns to downtown Mesa on Veterans Day, Wednesday Nov. 11. The parade route has been changed in an effort to improve the areas available for spectators to view the event. The parade will begin at 11 a.m. at the intersection of Center Street and University Drive and will travel south on Center Street and turn west on First Street. The parade will continue on First Street to Robson where it will end. This route offers wide, tree-lined streets for the entire length of the parade and will be easily accessible for all.
. . . The City of Mesa will be closed in observance of Veterans Day. The closure includes libraries and recreation centers. Trash and recycle barrels will be on the normal collection schedule. Residents should have their containers out no later than 6 a.m. The Mesa Arts Center is open with several events taking place including the benefit concert at 12:30 p.m. While the box office will be open, the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, The Store and administrative offices will be closed. The Arizona Museum of Natural History and Arizona Museum for Youth will also be closed. The Dobson Ranch Golf Course will be open and the Kino Aquatic Center and Skyline Aquatic Center will be open for adult lap swimming. All bus and light rail routes will operate on a Sunday/holiday schedule.

Public Information and Communications
Contact: Kevin Christopher
Tel. 480-644-4699
kevin.christopher@mesaaz.gov

Today: DaVita Partners Group Volunteers Filling-In Mesa Urban Garden

Very few people were out on the streets today, but 50 or more DPG volunteer pitched in on and shoveled many cubic feet of soil into the raised plant beds on a day of service in the new Urban Downtown Mesa.
Here in the image to the left you can see Davita Partners Group Arizona regional manager with a group looking at plantings of Milkweed in a butterfly garden.

Here's a  quick shot of the whole group getting ready to shout out - hope to get a video of this to add to this post.

During an outdoor lunch provided by Republica Empanada a generous donation of $1,000 was gratefully received and acknowledged.
Members of the MUG Board - shall we call them "Muggles"?? - are shown with Ryan Winkle and Donna DiFrancesco liaison with the City of Mesa Living Green

If you want to find out what's happening in here come and see + take a walk around all the new fall garden plantings: it's a new garden season!







See the November newsletter in this link http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=eb5c18d28b8ba18f9d16b362b&id=2fc01ee8b3&e=9d9382c8a4