North PB Sip ‘N Stroll, being held for the third time 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 26, gets bigger and better \u2013 and more representative \u2013 of the neighborhood each year.
\nThe aim of this third installment of the hyper-local Pacific Beach street fair continues to be to promote and uncover local businesses in North Pacific Beach.
\n“We\u2019re getting more and more of the local businesses involved, rather than outside-type vendors,” said event originator Mike Spangler, of Spangler Event Productions. “We\u2019ve got probably close to 40 businesses and nonprofits lined up, all based in PB. To me, that is amazing.” Spangler added the event this year is becoming even more community-focused.
\n“To start, we are raising awareness and money for the Bike Friendly Business District of Discover Pacific Beach, which promotes bike traffic in the area,” Spangler said adding “North PB residents and businesses want more bike racks and this is what we are raising money for.”
\nSpangler said guests are also being encouraged to ride their bike to the event this year and team up with Discover PB, Beautiful PB, Deco Bikes and SD Bike Coalition to install a temporary bike corral adjacent to the event where they can safely lock up their bikes and receive lots of bike info from bicycling organizations.
\nNew this year, Spangler said, is that the event has teamed up with Pacific Beach Town Council to program the community and kids corner located in the parking lot of Tula Ru.
\n“We are giving free space to local non-profits such as Beautiful PB, SavePB, PB Planning Group, PB Library, The Gateway Project and a few others so they can interact with the community,” said Spangler. “There is a huge disconnect between these organizations and the younger families in the neighborhood, and what a better way to engage than through the kids. I am personally collecting reclaimed wood from the neighborhood and cutting out fish so the kids can paint them and take them home,” he said. The new Creative Kids Early Learning Studio on Turquoise Street will also be providing some unique learning activities.
\nOne goal of the Sip \u2019N\u2019 Stroll is to distinguish North PB from the rest of the community by establishing its unique identity.
\nNorth PB se define vagamente como la secci\u00f3n de la comunidad de playa al norte del distrito comercial de las avenidas Grand y Garnet, delimitada por Felspar Street al sur, Turquoise Street al norte, Mission Boulevard al oeste e Ingraham Street al este.
\nMost importantly, Spangler noted the annual street fair\u2019s objective is to “celebrate the residents and all the small-businesses in the neighborhood that people don\u2019t really know about. The point is to uncover them so people know they don\u2019t have to leave PB, they can shop here, get their taxes done, et cetera.”
\nThe event was initially created to merge the “sip” of wine tasting at Turquoise Cellars with a “stroll” down a family-friendly, business-marketing street fair.
\nSpangler said it is his hoped that Sip \u2019N Stroll will continue to be a very “hyperlocal, grass-roots effort,” promoting both brick-and-mortar and at-home local businesses in accounting, financial services, digital marketing and numerous other growing fields.
\nMost importantly, Spangler noted the annual street fair\u2019s objective is to “celebrate the residents and all the small-businesses in the neighborhood that people don\u2019t really know about. The point is to uncover them so people know they don\u2019t have to leave PB, they can shop here, get their taxes done, et cetera.”
\nSpangler concluded the Sip \u2019N Stroll “helps the economy of the neighborhood.”
\nThe street fair will have a nice representation of local restaurants and businesses as well as presenting a fine wine and beer tasting garden. When: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 26 Where: Cass Street between Loring and Opal streets. Info: www.sipnstrollpb.com<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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