[GPSCC-chat] Fw: please reply ASAP re Holiday Peace Fair - date/location for 2013 (and 2014?)

[Caroline Yacoub]

Does anyone have an objection to having the Holiday Peace Fair on the second Saturday in December?
 
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From: Joan Goddard <joan at rujo.org>
To: HPF Vendors and Volunteers <joan at rujo.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 4:28 PM
Subject: please reply ASAP re Holiday Peace Fair - date/location for 2013 (and 2014?)
  

After thinking that we had made early arrangements for having the 2013 Holiday Peace Fair at the Campbell United Methodist Church, with the Church and Society Committee sponsoring it, we were not able to get confirmation from the church office staff for the first Saturday in December (12/7).

Now there has been a change of plans, The church staff and many members are making plans for celebrating the 125th anniversary of the CUMC founding, with quite a bit of activity focused on children on that first December Saturday -- more than is usually done on that Sunday.

The result is that we have just heard that if we want to have the HPF at CUMC, it will need to be on Saturday, December 14.  It is likely that the church would prefer that we switch to the second Saturday in the future as well, because of preparation for activities on the first Sunday of the Advent season.  The second Saturday of December 2014 is 12/13.

Checking other possible dates, I found that Thanksgiving 2013 is as late in November as it can be, so November 30 is during Thanksgiving weekend.  In 2014, Saturday, November 29th is also during Thanksgiving weekend.

In case you wonder, as I did -- Hanukkah 2013 is unusually early -- it begins in the evening of Wednesday, November 27 and ends in the evening of Thursday, December 5.           2014:   December 16-24
So at least for those two years, the second Saturday of December will not be during Hanukkah.

I have checked on the Willow Glen United Methodist Church because we had the HPF there in 2011, although we have preferred the CUMC because there is more indoor space, parking, etc. As of now, there is nothing on the calendar at WGUMC for December 7, 2013 -- and the Office and Facilities Manager does not know of anything being considered. The church does not seem to use the hall on Saturdays, according to the next six months of their website calendar of church activities.

PLEASE respond quickly re whether the second Saturday of December will be OK with your group so that we can have the HPF at the Campbell UMC.

If people strongly want to stay with the traditional first Saturday, I will start making arrangements with Willow Glen UMC unless someone has a better suggestion SOON.   (It requires a larger hall than many otherwise good locations have to offer.)   Please send a message or call me ASAP if you will help with finding a place!

Joan Goddard
408-396-8039
joan at rujo.org
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