Thank You

To all the emergency services personnel, veterans, and active duty military who showed up at Remembrance Day, thank you for your service.

September 25th: Remembrance Day

Since plans changed unexpectedly on September 11th, we moved the free cake to this Saturday. Police Chief Ernie Paul will open the market by playing Reverie on the trumpet. He'll also close the market with Taps. There will be a brief ceremony at 10AM beginning with the Star Spangled Banner and then three speakers representing military and service personnel from our community. If you show up in uniform (and we mean service personnel; your band uniform doesn't count), then you'll be served a free piece of cake. De Soto Police, De Soto City & Rural Fire Departments, Valle & Joachim-Plattin Ambulance will have booths to hand out information about their community services. Please come and honor those who serve you.

Our band this weekend will be Sugar Moon, and they'll take the stage from 9-11 AM. We hope to see you there.

Remembrance Day

Saturday is September 11th, and there aren't many Americans that don't know exactly where they were when they heard about the terrorist attacks on that day in 2001. In an effort to honor those that died in the attacks, those that continue to fight to bring the attackers to justice, and those that did so much to rescue those trapped in the buildings that day, we wanted to have a short ceremony. However, with the tragic death of James Ide V, we thought it best to postpone the ceremony. We would still like for everyone to come by the market and take a moment to write any words of remembrance about September 11th on a large banner that we have. We will display the banner at the market on September 25th, which is also when we'll have the postponed ceremony.

The Kids' Corner activity is to make American flags, so your youngsters won't want to miss it. We'll also have pony rides!...now that the unbearable heat seems to be done, and we don't have to worry about heat exhaustion from riders or horses.

Come by the market, talk to neighbors about what you remember from September 11, 2001, and let's all remember together.

Dates to Remember

September 4th: The market will be closed for the holiday. Woooooohooooooo! Isn't Labor Day grand?

September 11th: Remembrance Day, a special event where we'll try to honor the victims of September 11th, our military personnel, and local emergency management personnel. There will be free cake for people in uniform! (Don't confuse uniform with costume. We know some of you pranksters out there, and you don't get to eat cake...unless you happen to be a prankster who happens to be a fireman, cop, EMT, Sgt...)

September 18th: Fall Festival in De Soto. For a list of goings-on that day, please visit the Chamber's website. (Seriously, the Fall Festival 5K is the only 5K in Jefferson County that is relatively flat. Take advantage of it!)