Downtown New Bedford, Inc.

December 2013

Please bring us retail shops filled with customers and busy cash registers, restaurants filled with hungry people, holiday entertainment, fire truck rides and plenty of things for children to do. We will work hard to make sure these things are successful. And we want to see you too. So please arrange a race for all of your helpers. After the race, send your helpers through the streets to the shops and restaurants to spread messages of holiday cheer. As for you and your wife, we have just the right cobblestoned street for you to head a parade followed by children. So please meet us at Custom House Square Park. We have a perfect fire truck for you to arrive in. Many of the children will want to have a photo taken with you. Later you can help to light the tree. It will be perfect.

Signed,
Downtown New Bedford, Inc.

It was perfect. Our downtown has become a holiday destination for shoppers looking for unique gifts in all price ranges. Many more people know that it is the place to go for good shopping, good dining and entertainment or a day that combines all three. Customers used to wish for the old days. Now the buzz has changed to appreciation. Downtown New Bedford will be the place to shop and eat for the rest of the holiday season. It has two hours of free parking too.

Signed
Downtown New Bedford, Inc.
PHOTOS: SALLY SPOONER

The New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park lampposts are once again taking on a festive look for the Holiday Season. The fresh laurel, red bows and white lights are all private donations. Thank you to all who contributed to the fund that keeps the tradition alive:

Mr. & Mrs. Leo Allen
Jessica D. Bailey
Beauregard, Burke & Franco
bejeweled
Carter’s Clothing & Footwear
Christian Science Reading Room
Common Sense Environmental, Inc
Freestone’s City Grill
Gallery 65 on William,
Greater New Bedford Community Health Center
Solange Guillet
Law Offices of Eric Jaikes
Patricia McGovern
Chris McKeon
Law Offices of Robert F. Murray

New Bedford Credit Union
New Bedford Port Society
New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford Whaling
National Historical Park
Mary Louise Nunes, CPA,
E. J. Pontiff Real Estate
St. Anne Credit Union
Sea Born Products
Seamen’s Bethel
Sally Spooner and Family
The Standard-Times
David G. Sullivan
Kirk Whiting

Friends of the New Bedford Free Public Library are introducing in time for holiday gift giving a calendar for 2014 … THE MEN OF NEW BEDFORD.

Included in the calendar are pictures of men who have made and continue to make a difference in the city on all levels, politically, commercially, and artistically.

The calendars are prices at $10.00 each, cash or checks made payable to NBFPL. The proceeds will go to the main library and all branches for continuation of projects and activities for children's programming that are not included in the city funding for the library. Support of this fund raiser means support for your library.

You can find the calendars at many downtown locations: Crowell's Fine Arts, the Arthur Moniz Gallery, Travessia Winery, and the Whaling Museum gift shop.

For more information contact Joan Halter – President, Friends of the New Bedford Free Public Library 508-991-2512

Each Christmas between 1990 and 2004, Downtown New Bedford, Inc, commissioned a limited number of silver-plated tree ornaments commemorating different New Bedford historic landmarks. Each came with a card describing the historical significance of the site it represented.

Most were sold, but a few remain, and since it seems a shame to keep these beautiful holiday keepsakes in storage, hidden away and unappreciated, DNB is offering them to the public this year at the greatly-reduced price of $5.

Hang them on the tree, use them as stocking stuffers, send them as holiday greetings, or just keep them as mementos of our city’s fabled past.

See and buy them by stopping Celia's Boutique, 111 William St, or by calling the DNB, Inc, office at 508-990-2777.

Seaman's Bethel