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FB RT Villebois Piazza Give blood at the upcoming American Red Cross Blood Drive in the Villebois Village Center on August 15th! For more information about the blood drive or to schedule your appointment, please call Jeremy Comiskey at 503.646.8888 x16 or email jeremy@costapacific.com.

The Red Cross doesn't do blood drives on Sundays, but you can do your part to help by coming on Saturday and donating blood.

FIVE things YOU can do in 20 MINUTES to support the Villebois Sunday Market

#1 Recruit volunteers and send them to the market manager. Successful markets have a strong, active volunteer base. If you want to keep the market at Villebois, we need YOU, and we need your friends and neighbors.

Volunteer at the market – we have morning and afternoon shifts – or take a leadership role, and help during the week with a variety of tasks. The Web site, www.VilleboisSundayMarket.com, has information under "volunteers." The sign-up sheet is at the Welcome Tent each week.

If you would like to take a leadership role, please contact Taraneh (terre-UH-neigh) Foster, the market manager, at villeboissundaymarket@gmail.com. Office hours are from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Tuesdays.

#2 Talk, talk, talk. The best way to increase attendance and to recruit volunteers is through cheap, good, old-fashioned word of mouth. Edelman does an annual Trust Barometer (http://www.edelman.com/trust/2009/), and "a person like me" continues to be the most trusted source of information. Didn't you know? YOU are that trusted person. We need you. So get talking!

#3 Talk online, too. Do you use e-mail? Twitter? Facebook? LinkedIn? Please add the following to your e-mail signature, both at home and at work, and then include this on your status updates in your chosen social media: “Did you know Wilsonville has a farmers' market? Watch the video at http://bit.ly/cbAAx, follow the market blog at VilleboisSundayMarket.blogspot.com, and join me Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.”

#4 Share this post with anyone you know that lives in Wilsonville or a neighboring city/town. Ask them to share it with anyone they know, too. Can't make a copy? The Villebois Village Center has extra copies of this in a hard copy, flyer format. They'll be glad to share.

#5 Plan to attend our next community meeting at 12 p.m. Sunday, June 28. What's a better time to talk about the market than during the market itself? We'll meet in the entertainment room across from the leasing office in the Miraval Building (entrance is next to the Village Waffle Baker). It'll be a great time to learn about and sign-up for some of the many volunteer opportunities at the Villebois Sunday Market.

Help us improve the market: attend the June 9 community meeting

Please note the date change to Tuesday, June 9.

We're about a month into our first season, and market management would like to meet with community members and business leaders to discuss how things have been going thus far, what's in store, and what tweaks we can make to help spread the word (and to improve the market itself). Please join us from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 9, at the Miraval Building in the Villebois Village Center, located at 28900 SW Villebois Drive in Wilsonville (driving directions). On the agenda:

• The market experience (flow, seating, etc.)
• Volunteer feedback, needs, training
• Directional signage
• Feedback on vendors, product offerings, product mix
• Friend of the Market program
• Publicity and promotions (where should we focus resources?)

Are we missing an agenda item? Leave us a comment, and we can add it to the discussion!

We still need a few volunteers for this Sunday

If you are able to volunteer for the market this Sunday, we could use you! Please email VilleboisSundayMarket@gmail.com with the position/time you are able to fill, or please comment below this post.

Morning Shift (9:45 a.m. to 12 p.m.)
(1) Green Team
(2) Market Watch
(2) Activity Tent
(1) Parking/Traffic Control

Afternoon Shift (12 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.)
(1) Market Greeters
(1) Vendor Liaison
(1) Welcome Tent
(2) Green Team
(2) Market Watch
(2) Activity Tent
(1) Parking/Traffic Control

Volunteers still needed for Sunday, May 10

If you are able to volunteer for the market this Sunday, we could use you!  Please email VilleboisSundayMarket@gmail.com with the position/time you are able to fill, or please comment below this post.

Morning Shift (9:45 a.m. to 12 p.m.)

(1) Green Team

(2) Market Watch

(2) Activity Tent

(1) Parking/Traffic Control

Afternoon Shift (12 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.)

(2) Market Greeters

(1) Vendor Liaison

(2) Welcome Tent

(2) Green Team

(2) Market Watch

(2) Activity Tent

(1) Parking/Traffic Control

Help us run the market

If you'd like to join in on the fun, but you don't have the time to help with market planning, we are also looking for people to help at the market itself.  Some of the opportunities available each Sunday are:

• Market greeters: welcome shoppers and measure (people) traffic
  
• Vendor liaisons: get to know the day's vendors and serve as the link between them and the on-site market manager (so they get help more quickly without detracting from customer service)
  
• Welcome Tent staff: provide shoppers with information about Villebois, the market, vendors and market partners/sponsors; provide information to potential volunteers; and keeper of the volunteer sign-in and sign-out sheet
  
• The Green Team: walks the market, helping people find trash cans and recycle bins, helps with set up and take down, and generally keeps the market clean and pollutant free
  
• Market Watch: walks the market, helping parents who've lost track of their children (it can happen) and serves as a citizen security force, alerting the on-site market managers to any individuals disrupting the overall peace.