Splashpad Newsletter
Farmers Market Update – October 2022
by Dan Foster We encourage you to learn more about our Gather for the Planet gala and year-end fundraiser on December 3 to be held at the Swedish American Music Hall, benefiting AIM and the Center for Food & Agriculture. Market Participant Spotlight: Delightful Foods – Delightful foods isa natural foods bakery specializing in 19 favors […]
Grand Avenue Merchant News – October 2022
by Ken Katz If you currently do a Google search for Cycle Sports, a notification pops up saying that it’s temporarily closed and now owned by Trek Bicycles. Yesterday afternoon, when we happened upon the closed sign surrounded outside by multiple display fixtures, wood pallets and piles of cardboard, we were initially dismayed to learn […]
Splash Pad Calendar – October 2022
Splash Pad Calendar by Sheila McCormick October 2, Sunday, 2pm, *In Person* Oakland History Center. Listen, World! An East Bay Afternoon. Listen World! How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson became America’s Most-read Woman is a new biography of journalist Elsie Robinson, who got her start writing for children as Aunt Elsie in the Oakland Tribune. Authors […]
Splash Pad News – September 2022
Splash Pad Calendar – September 2022
Splash Pad Calendar by Sheila McCormick September 1, Thursday, 12:30-1:30pm *ZOOM* Oakland Rotary Club #3 . Gillian Tett is the chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large, US of the Financial Times. She writes weekly columns covering a range of economic, financial, political, and social issues. Register for Zoom link here. September 3, Saturday, 6pm […]
Grand Avenue Merchant News – September 2022
by Ken Katz We’re thrilled to report that the Knimble space on Grand Avenue has just been leased. The new tenant, ReLove, already has a very successful location on Polk Street in San Francisco which their website describes as… A re-sale boutique offering a curated mix of vintage, designer, and independent labels. We hand select […]
Farmers Market Update – September 2022
by Dan Foster Congratulations to Anne’s Toum for their feature in the SF Chronicle: This sauce debuted at Bay Area farmers markets. Now it’s in Williams Sonoma. Congratulations to the following founders for joining The Lab + The Accelerator at ICA: Pound Bizness – Reggie Borders and Nicole Felix-Borders Rize Up – Azikiwee Anderson Tha MF’n Vegan – Bria Hutson Volcano Kimchi […]
Farmers Market Update – August 2022
by Dan Foster AIM CEO, Andy Naja-Riese, was the Guest Speaker at the Oakland Rotary Club’s Civic Thursday meeting last week. Topics covered included the challenges facing farm operators particularly in the face of the pandemic and global warming; AIM’s efforts to support farms and food preparers who are from minority communities; the Grand Lake […]
Grand Avenue Merchant News – August 2022
by Ken Katz This past Thursday, an Art Walk on Grand Avenue involved six locally-owned local businesses: Radbird, Megadeluxe, Alyce on Grand, Urban Furniture & Boutique, Brother & Sisters Flower Shop, and Sister Restaurant. The initial stimulus for the event came from Tracey Williams, the Founder and Executive Director of Urban University, who was one […]