Shops on the Hill Quarterly
Upcoming Events
Feb 20th: Hill Membership Meeting
Winter Dinner Series Hosted at Tipsy Bean Last Wednesday’s of Months Jan-April
Emergycare Gala: April 24th
Meeting Discussion
Meeting commence: 6:05
In attendance:
Stephani Klassen – Give a Crepe
Christine Hoffman – Hoffman United
Gisele Littrell - Tipsy Bean
Heather Casper – Sisters of St Joseph
Emily George - Pointe Foure Vintage Boutique
Bill Kern – Bastion Studios
Rob Ewing – EmergyCare
ECGRA / SSJN Grant: ECGRA grant for lighting. First year of monies granted is sitting in the SSJN bank ready to be used. All money requires a match to be used. The match could come out of the Hill funds.
Light up the Hill meeting – Some sort of small open house event to get the Hill District members in to talk about this lighting and make sure everyone is on board.
1 on 1 meetings for those who need more details or didn’t attend the open house.
Flea Markets / Events:
Over $2,000 raised collectively over all fleas in 2019
Erie Community Foundation grant to improve the flea markets.
Cover marketing, tents, and other things.
Scholarship applications for those who can not afford the booth fee; Income limit / diversity will be a deciding factor
Multicultural center sponsors
Super Early Bird Special for previous vendors.
Square/Venmo money processing; Online form to join the fleas through our website; pay online only.
Fleas are the last Sunday in May, June, July, August, September
Non-Profit status
By the end of the year? Waiting to meet with the legal folks
Next Meeting: February 17 7:00pm @Bastion Studios * has been changed : noted in “upcoming events”
Meeting adjourned: 7:20
Our Website
Our website has been a definite boom to information being able to give to future members of the Hill. From listing all our amazing businesses, to upcoming events for each and all locations; we have been able to inform the public and ourselves of what is happening on The Hill.
Please check out shopsonthehill.org to see how the ECGRA Grant awarded to the Historic Hill is being utilized this year and next!