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Check out discounts local merchants are offering holiday shoppers:

Lyric’s Lateedas & Oohlalas
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Open Late from 6-8pm

You are invited to enjoy home baked buffalo-chip cookies and lemonade at Lyric’s while you browse. Enjoy our Holiday Early Bird Special: All holiday fabrics 30% off.

Location: 409 E. Main, Nacogdoches, TX 75961. Call: 936-560-1488.

Regular store hours are Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm.

Join us this Saturday at the Nacogdoches Farmer’s Market to stock up on local produce and a variety of other items.  The Nacogdoches Farmer’s Market is currently open on Saturday mornings and offers locally grown produce and a variety of other unique and delicious items.

This week the Market as always will feature a variety of fresh produce such as: apples, cucumbers, eggplants, green beans, greens (collard, kale, mustard & turnip), herbs (apple mint, oregano, Thai basil, thyme & sweet leaf basil), Romaine lettuce, okra, onions (white & yellow), oranges, parsley, pears, unshelled pecans, peppers (Bell, banana, cayenne, jalapenos & sweet), persimmons, potatoes (red & white), squash (butternut, white scallop, yellow & zucchini), sweet potatoes, tomatoes (green & regular) and turnips.

Photo by Bruce R. Partain

We are also proud to have these additional items available this Saturday at the Farmer’s Market:  farm raised tilapia, naturally processed &hormone free chickens and farm raised eggs, wonderful fresh cut flowers, homemade candles and perfumes in every scent imaginable, Texas Cheese’s such as fresh made, Gouda, Goat, Jalapeno, Cheddar, Blue & Caraway, freshly ground corn meal, jams & jellies, Carol’s breads, pecan pies, cookies, cakes from Sand hill Farm, and an assortment of other hand crafted items.

This Saturday, October 31, singer/songwriter Chris Edwards will be playing.

If you would like to sign up for the weekly Farmers’ Market email update, please send an email to obriens@ci.nacogdoches.tx.us. You are also more than welcome to visit www.farmermktnac.blogspot.com for the weekly update. Also be our fan on facebook @NacogdochesFarmersMarket.

The Nacogdoches Farmers’ Market, located at the “hitch lot” at the corner of West Main and Pearl Streets, is open from 8 a.m. until noon or later every Saturday. If the market parking lot is full, additional parking is available in the Nacogdoches County Courthouse Annex parking lot.

Nacogdoches has three Chamber members who specialize in yummy sweet treats. Two of the businesses are on North St.

Cookies and Creamery
2801 North St.
Nacogdoches, TX 75965
Phone – (936) 569-8500
Owners Jason and Stacey Bartley

Marble Slab
2425 North St.
Nacogdoches, TX 75965
Phone – (936) 462-9899
Owner Vince Beard

Or if you’d like to make someone’s day – ship something sweet:

call Samye Johnson at Pinto Pony Cookie Factory (936) 288-0202.
Pinto Pony cookies are the best cookies wrapped up in the best Texas packaging – check it out at www.pintopony.com.

Attend “Increasing Sales & Profits as a Destination Business” presented by Jon Schallert.

Tuesday, Oct. 6, at Hotel Fredonia.

Registration at the door is accepted. Click for details.

Trick O Treat Overalls

The selection of seasonal fabric at Lyric’s makes embellishing an old pair of overalls easy (see the picture at left).

This adorable idea translates into other holidays too. Check out our new Halloween, Autumn, Thanksgiving and Christmas themed collections.

Accepting Competitors Coupons on Fabric. Bring your coupons from other fabric and craft dealers to save on you next fabric or notions purchase at Lyric’s. Clip those coupons to get the most out of your next sewing project.

“I Dream Fabric” Stay up to date on new products, projects and sewing classes through my new blog: http://www.lyrics.typepad.com/ Trick or Treat, y’all!

Business owners in Nacogdoches and surrounding areas have the opportunity to hear nationally known business consultant Jon Schallert when he comes to Nacogdoches, Texas on October 6, 2009.

Sponsored by Hotel Fredonia, the Nacogdoches Convention & Visitors Bureau, the Nacogdoches County Chamber of Commerce, Nacogdoches Economic Development Corporation, Texas Forest Trail Region, and the City of Nacogdoches Main Street Program Schallert will present his acclaimed business improvement session, “Increasing Your Profits to Become a Destination Business.” As part of his visit to the area, Schallert will also conduct a Marketing Roundtable with seminar attendees to discuss pertinent business issues.

Schallert’s sessions teach independent business owners how to turn their businesses into consumer “Destinations” that attract customers from many miles away, past other competitive outlets.  Schallert’s consulting firm, The Schallert Group, Inc., is noted for providing competitive tools to independent business owners that are typically used exclusively by large corporate chains to dominate a marketplace.

“The challenge for any business today, regardless of its location and surrounding demographics, is to create such a compelling offering that it is repeatedly visited by consumers. For a business to be a true ‘destination,’ it must also be able to draw customers from other cities and towns, miles away, past other larger, more dominant competitors,” says Schallert.

Schallert has been working with independent business owners since 1983, and contributes his business strategies to national publications like the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Entrepreneur Magazine. Schallert speaks and consults with thousands of entrepreneurs annually.

Those wanting to learn more about Schallert prior to his visit are encouraged to visit his company website at www.JonSchallert.com. Owners may subscribe to Schallert’s free “Reinvent Your Business” newsletter at this site.

“Most independent businesses that fail today would not have to close if they had adapted to easily recognizable marketplace changes and focused on becoming Consumer Destinations,” says Schallert. “It’s an oversimplification to say that all small Mom and Pop businesses are doomed because of superstores, or because of the proliferation of malls throughout the country.”

Schallert’s company is located in Longmont, Colorado. Schallert is a member of the National Speakers Association, the National Main Street Network, and the International Downtown Association.

Business owners interested in attending may call the Nacogdoches CVB at 936-564-7351 or visit www.texasforesttrail.com for more information.

Registration is $125 for non-Nacogdoches residents, and $50 for local residents. Questions? Contact Jon Schallert at 303-774-6522, by fax at 866-653-1336, by email at info@JonSchallert.com .

Lyric, owner of downtown business Lyric’s LaTeeDas & OohLa Las, announces New Classes – New Fabric – New Savings!

Beautiful Beginnings Sewing Classes are going on now. These are one-on-one classes designed to get you sewing beautiful projects from the very first class.

Classes are for adults to preteens. Choose the fabric of your choice and create your own beautiful bedding. Classes will build upon each other. First class you will learn the basics of the sewing machine and will end with you making a pillowcase that is ready for home or a special gift. Have the pillowcase embroidered for that personal touch.

In the following classes you will then proceed to make an appliqued pillow, laundry bag, quilted pillow sham and finally a quilt. Call today to schedule your one-on-one sewing lessons. Classes are $10.00 per hour plus the cost of the fabric kit. We cut, and you come ready to sew!

Lyric’s

409 E Main St.

Nacogdoches, TX 75961

Tel: 1 936 560 1488

E-mail: lyricssewingclasses@yahoo.com

Gregory Lide, of Sacred Springs Farm will be available at the market to discuss his community supported organic farm.

Join us this Saturday at the Nacogdoches Farmer’s Market to stock up on local produce and a variety of other items.  The Nacogdoches Farmer’s Market is currently open bi-weekly, on Saturdays and Wednesday mornings and offers locally grown produce and a variety of other unique and delicious items.

This week the Market as always will feature a variety of fresh produce such as: cantaloupe, cucumbers, eggplants, figs, garlic, greens (mustard & turnip), okra, onions (small white & yellow), unshelled purple hull peas, peppers (Bell, banana, cayenne, jalapenos & sweet), radishes, red potatoes,  squash (buttermilk, white scallop, yellow & zucchini), sweet potatoes, tomatoes (cherry, green & regular) and watermelons (800′s).

We are also proud to have these additional items available this Saturday at the Farmer’s Market:  farm raised tilapia, naturally processed &hormone free chickens and farm raised eggs, Josie’s wonderful fresh cut flowers, homemade candles and perfumes in every scent imaginable, Texas Cheese’s such as fresh made, Gouda, Goat, Jalapeno, Cheddar, Blue & Caraway, freshly ground corn meal, ornamental grasses, jams & jellies, pecan pies, cookies, cakes from Sand hill Farm and an assortment of other hand crafted items.

Entertainment for this weekend will be provided by singer/songwriter Ian Fischburg.  If you would like to sign up for the weekly Farmers’ Market email update, please send an email to mainstreet@ci.nacogdoches.tx.us You are also more than welcome to visit www.farmermktnac.blogspot.com for the weekly update. Also be our fan on facebook@NacogdochesFarmersMarket.

The Nacogdoches Farmers’ Market, located at the “hitch lot” at the corner of West Main and Pearl Streets, is open from 8 a.m. until noon or later every Saturday and Wednesdays through the Summer. If the market parking lot is full, additional parking is available in the Nacogdoches County Courthouse Annex parking lot.

Congratulations to David and Teresa Darby, owners of Glass Castles Stained Glass Studio and Gifts. The downtown business is Small Business of the Year.

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Teresa and David Darby stand by two of the stained glass windows they designed, created and installed in the United Methodist Church in Chireno. (Photo by Kelly Daniel)