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Calling all flea market

and garage sale vendors

Wayne Main Street will be hosting Downtown Days. Booth space is
a flea market and community garage available for $15 for one of the two
sale in Downtown Wayne’s Veterans days or $20 to rent space for both
Plaza as a part of the 2019 Down- days. Vendors can find out more in-
town Days festivities happening Au- formation and purchase space by
gust 9 and 10. calling the Wayne Main Street office
Wayne Main Street is pleased to at (734) 629-6822.
announce that the 2019 Downtown
Days event will feature a flea market About downtown days
and community garage sale. The Downtown Days was started in
market will feature vendors from all 2016 and since then has become our
around the Detroit area. Organizers organization’s signature summer
anticipate that numerous antique, event. In 2019 Downtown Days will
vintage, and collectible stores will be held Friday, August 9, and Satur-
participate in this year’s event. Indi- day, August 10, at Veteran’s Plaza
viduals and community members (34841 Veterans Plaza, Wayne, MI) in
are also invited to get in on the ex- the heart of downtown Wayne.
citement. Space is being offered for This year’s event is especially sig-
garage sale and craft vendors. nificant to the City of Wayne as 2019
marks our sesquicentennial anniver-
Spaces still available sary. To help celebrate this impor-
While space is avail- tant milestone, Downtown
able, the event is filling up Days will feature a 150th
fast. Organizers are plan- Birthday Celebration
ning to have close to 50 hosted by Mayor John
vendors each day. The Rhaesa. Downtown Days
market will operate dur- 2019 will feature an excit-
ing all hours of Downtown ing lineup of family-
Days, from Noon-9:00 friendly live music
p.m. on Friday, August 9, entertainment, food ven-
and 9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m. dors, the flea market/com-
on Saturday, August 10. munity garage sale, and a
The market will feature various an- number of art-focused programs, in-
tiques, collectibles and artwork for cluding our Second Annual Art-O-
sale. "Our flea market is an excellent Motive car hood contest, the Third
way of keeping the community mem- Annual Window on Wayne photogra-
bers engaged throughout the event phy contest, and the Detroit Institute
and provides a wealth of opportunity of Art’s Drop-In workshop. We esti-
for our individuals and vendors to mate that Downtown Days will draw
display their unique wares," says 4,000-5,000 festivalgoers from
Paul Sposite, Board Member for Wayne and its surrounding commu-
Wayne Main Street and Chair of nities.

14 · July 2019 · The Wayne Dispatch