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Patch Blog: Antique Vendors Celebrate a Reversal of Fortune

A seven-page document with rules and regulations for vendors will be provided to antiques, collectibles vendors for signatures this week.

I want to report positive news, I really do! So here I am fresh from the Montrose Shopping Park Association’s regular December Board Meeting held Thursday, Dec. 1 and I am quoting Maureen Palacios the outgoing Chair of the Harvest Market Oversight Committee who presented her Committee report. 

Palacios offered new information in that a seven-page document has been created called "Rules and Regulations for Vendors" to be provided to the vendors for their signatures next week. The content of the document was approved by the board with five votes and two abstentions. About this document Palacios said: it lists “exactly what is expected”; it is an “excellent” document and “leaves nothing to the imagination.”

Palacios reiterated “there will be no changes” to the market () and since this is exactly what we all long to hear we are going to take this to the bank. If it’s a bad check we learned our lesson, but even board members can change their mind and I think the media response and had a lot to do with the reversal of fortune for Thieves Market vendors whose livelihood has been threatened the past several months by the board’s expressed intention to replace Thieves Market with a different theme. 

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Thank you to all of you, who stuck your neck out and voiced an opinion, signed a petition, wrote a letter, or made a phone call in support of Thieves Market and it's vendors and eclectic charm! Don’t neglect the followup: now is the time to thank the MSPA for relenting, and express your desire that this be a permanent decision in favor of Thieves Market vendors. 

Palacios also read the description of the market including the following: vendors will offer for sale “antiques and collectibles… and crafts that are being actively created in their booth.” The new rules and regulations have been patterned after the ’s documentation and according to Palacios the MSPA’s version represents “a lot of hard work and research” on the subject. 

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The board also approved the 2012 Harvest Market manager contract for Mark Sheridan; and the produce vendors will be required to carry their own liability insurance and sign a “hold harmless’ agreement.

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