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FARMERS MARKET IN WAITSBURG?

WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg City Council will con­sider a request by resident Amy Morris to open Preston Park for more long-term events at its regular meeting Wednesday.

Morris, whose homeschooled daughters sell their jewelry and candles at the Dayton Farmers Market each weekend, is hoping that a revision to current city ordinance would allow members of the Dayton Farmers Market to move to Preston Park. Currently the Dayton market is open Friday evenings and Saturdays in the Seneca parking lot just at the edge of town.

"There's not a lot of traffic up that way," Morris said. "I think if we move to Waitsburg we'll have more traffic."

Not everyone at the Dayton market wants to move, Mor­ris said. So the group is considering a split between the two days - one day in Dayton and one in Waitsburg, she said.

The revision to current city code, which only allows agents use of the park for up to one week one time per year, would include this language: "Exceptions to this shall be considered and granted by the City Clerk on a case by case basis in which the event will provide increased economic traffic into the Downtown Corridor of the City of Waitsburg, i.e. Farmer Markets."

 

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