Boston City TV, MA Economic Development, 11 Dec 2017

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From YouTube: Small Business Saturday Holiday Celebration

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In Roslindale Village, Mayor Marty Walsh kicks off the holiday season at the 33rd Annual Holiday Tree-lighting & Small Business Saturday. Roslindale Village Main Streets hosts this longstanding neighborhood tradition and encourages everyone to be merry and "shop small."

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My name is Glenn Williams, and this is Kelly Ransom folks, we are from the from the BNN TV. It's all about arts television show, but we're also Roslindale people. We have been for many years and you have been very fortunate to be listening to the Christopher mish quartet they'll be playing throughout the day, hi guys. Thank you very much for being here today.

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What else do we have coming up.

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This rain dog competition judged by Lisa of pet cabaret, yeah.

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Do we have a lot of dogs out there I hope so I'm.

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Sure with them we got a formants by Oscar dance company from hi par they're.

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Gonna be performing over in this series. Is this a member of the dance company right now.

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Also got Sacred, Heart is well-represented. Ladies and gentlemen, Sacred Heart is celebrating 100 years of educating children here at say cat in Rosendale, and we are very, very proud of that. I see some parents out there, some X students very exciting, but the band and the Sacred Heart choir are here that which you'll be performing later on in a minute or two I'm gonna ask one senior Kelly to come up and say hello to everybody. But what else we have.

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Happening music for performance, I'm, making music matters photos you.

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Hear that Santa and mrs. Claus and.

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Our very special guest, the mayor right.

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The great mayor of the city of Boston is gonna, be here: Tim McCarthy, our city councilor, so there's all kinds of groovy things going on. I, don't hear that the sleigh bells. Yet, oh, no.

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That'sthat's just.

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Crossing the street, if.

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You want you to picture with Santa you might want to get in line early. You might want to get over there quick, cuz the lines they were already forming over.

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He's very popular, very.

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Very popular back I will I do want to take the second to let everybody know that this is brought to you by rosin, ville village main streets. Now the rosin Dale village main streets is that volunteer-driven organization that helped revitalize rosin Dale Square anybody out here has been familiar with rosin del square for over 20 years. Raise your hand if you've been in Rossy square for over 20 years or 25 years.

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Then you you and you know what rosin Dale village main streets is done for rosin dill square they've revitalized, this business district, if I had told you 15 years ago that there'd be people standing in line at three or four restaurants here, waiting to get in on a Thursday night, you told me I was out of my mind. Don't you think.

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I want you yeah, well, I'm gonna, give you just a couple of seconds on what they do. They work with the property owners to get demographic information to know more about you, so that they know what kind of businesses to put inside in the in the bit empty businesses. Then they have a promotions committee, write marketing and promotions, and what are those guys? We.

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Marketing and we help promote Rosendale square and the farmers might.

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These great events, they run events like gifts to bring.

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You down- and we are so fortunate and blessed this year- to have an executive director who is not only talented and mindful of all the things that need to happen and fabulous and fabulous, but she loves Rosendale and she treats it like her own. She even brings her own her own daughter down here to play Leah Leah forest, put your hands together for the executive director of Rosendale village, Main, Street, I'm,.

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Sure than everybody hi, everybody welcome to the 33rd annual tree lighting event in Roslindale village. How many of you have been around for 33 years sweet? Is this the sunniest stay out of all 33 tree lighting, even Roz. Do probably so. Not only is it our tree lighting, but it is Small Business Saturday, which means today's the day that you shop locally and support your local economy so be sure to shop at all. The retailers today and every day every day is really Small.

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Business Saturday around here before we get started with the dancing in the rain dog competition and the singing and the instruments and the Sacred Heart chorus, and the mayor I need to thank a lot of people that made today possible. I want to thank Kelsey Evans, our program manager. She is somewhere near our tables, go, say, hi and get your free shop small bag over there, Tom Donohue and Silvana Ragusa Silvana also has antler ears, so she's right over there and Tom Donohue.

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He helps manage the parade the egg hunt and the tree lighting every year. I want to thank Glenn, Williams voice of Roslindale.

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He's amazing Kelly ransom, also co emceeing. The event today want to thank all the our VMs board. Members raise your hand if you're an our VMs board member they're, all back there, giving out Donuts and shop small bags and volunteering all day. Also all the committee members are here today from the marketing committee, especially to help out, want to thank American Express for a Small Business Saturday swag bags, promotional materials that you're seeing around the Kristopher mich quartet, which is awesome, Sacred, Heart School.

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As Glenn said a hundred years this year, amazing, making Music Matters akkad ants dunkin donuts for the munchkins Diane's bakery for the cookies, the Elks Lodge, a ps4 made for the hot cocoa, RC n for muffins and coffee. There's a lot going on today. Dona thank the parks department for making this parks. Park beautiful, Adams Park looks from awesome. Today they did some extra raking. If you haven't noticed, I want to thank the special events team over here that set up this stage and set it up.

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So we can hear each other through the microphones, Public Works for the tree, Boston main streets, office and neighborhood services, also for helping scheduling the event and, of course, Santa and mrs. Claus, who you will see on a fire truck later today.

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Thank you to the business owners, community leaders and residents who make our neighborhood so special and please visit the our VMs table. If you want to get involved, everything we do is volunteer driven. We have an office of 2.5 staff. Everything else is done by volunteers. So if you want to get involved, visit the table and talk to some nice folks thanks, everyone enjoy enjoy the program thanks. Glen thanks.

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Kelly come on up father Kelly come up here. Would you please it's a it's? It's an incredible accomplishment to be I'm. Part of the school I went to school there in the 60s.

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Yes, I'm, an old guy. Anyone else go to school here in the 60s.

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But I'm teaching there now and I'm very very fortunate to have the opportunity to be an educator there, and this gentleman here is our.

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Please could we put our hands together for Monsignor Frank Kelly Thank.

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You Glenn. Thank you very much very glad to be here, as he said, I'm just thinking, 15 years. Oh here we were cold and dark. Thank you for everybody. Coming out. This is wonderful, just a great way to kick off the season for all of us and just want to wish you all a very happy, Thanksgiving and blessed days for everybody and I hope our kids sing well, you've been practicing them he's the guy that makes them sing see. Thank you very much Glenn for all you're doing. Thank you.

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Lisa, here from pet cabaret.

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She's not taking pictures of her favorites. That would not be fair.

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One of the one of the things Main Street does is they help support the businesses around here and there's a business. That's been a staple here in Roslindale that I've been proud to use and I'm sure that everybody else here has to that. Have pets.

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Please say hello to Lisa: she is the person in charge at pet cabaret up in the corner of metropolitan, a band watch mystery.

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Hi, kids thanks. Thank you for joining us all here today. The annual rain dog contest has been a really lovely and fun contest for the past jeez. How many years have we been doing yeah? So thank you all and have the dog sign up, yep don't sign up here. Can we have our contestants please line up here to the all.

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You dogs competing come on up, get you up here.

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Oh my gosh: this is the best day of my life right now, Olaf.

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Competition is fierce this year, fierce okay Marcy's, a shih tzu Marcy's wearing, although she's not wearing her reindeer helmet right now, she's she's carrying her carrot, she is work, said Marcy's modeling, nicely done ma, she's a rescue dog. Is that right? Yes, she is. The lovely people have given her a nice home here forever home in Roslindale. Okay, this is a lovely all Sola present Oh Warren very nicely very nicely stylish Lee quietly beautifully nice.

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Alright, next contestant, please Heidi Heidi is he's a little terrier mix and she's pulling along a teddy bear with Wow Heidi's rocking this actually she's she's liking. This yes nicely done Heidi and the hour here comes Fionna. Fiona's dress is all off.

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Good girl nicely.

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Good girl, alright and here's a little pom and I believe this is our final contestant and.

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All right we'll make our decision quickly and we'll go on hold on one minute. Kids,.

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We've made that decision and this year it's the Weimaraner.

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This Tim McCarthy here the great city councilor there is Tim McCarthy, ladies and gentlemen, just arriving at the park. We have a big round of applause for our city. Councilor Tim McCarthy come on up.

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All right, you got a backup I need you guys to make sure the kids don't fall.

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Do I hear do I, hear.

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Right here do I hear something coming down: Cummings highway.

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Who's, this folks.

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We have a big round of applause, please for the sacred thank.

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You so much that was beautiful.

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Ladies and gentlemen, there's there's a member of our community that I am so proud to introduce to you right now, ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for city councilor,.

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Did you just see, could you just see who did you see.

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Hi everybody. How are you I'm here with uh I'm here with blaze, say hi, please, Hey how's everybody doing today what a beautiful day 55 degrees. This is not bad. It's not bad at all, very happy to be here at the Christmas tree lighting. Today we have some very special people here: I'm gonna try to get everybody. We have a city council, president Michelle, who is here rosanell zone. What up in City Council eight lines in each the sabe Georgia's here the Register of Deeds Steve Murphy's.

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Here the Dean of the House of Representatives Angelo Scotia's.

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See it there is here and I think this guy's here too so I've been a proud member of the rosin, a village main streets for a long long time. Actually, since 1993, when I started working for mayor Raymond Flynn, so nobody knows this place as much as I do well. Actually, everybody knows this place as much as I do, but it's a wonderful place and I think I have to echo what Glenn said earlier. When you look at Raza Neil's Center and you look at Raza, Neil village, you know, restaurants are opening. People are here.

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People are involved people care about this neighborhood so much. It is such a wonderful place to live and work in place so I'm very happy to represent you I'll, be representing for the next two years. That was my Christmas present. Thank you very much and without further ado I'm going to introduce the guy, and it was a Christmas present for me too, to work with this guy every single day. Here's a guy who cares about Southwest Boston, not you!

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Here's a guy who cares about Southwest Boston, cares about Roz and Al and is pushing this agenda forward. Boston really is the greatest place in the planet to live, I believe and I hope. You all believe that to will continue to work together without further ado. The Mayor of the City of Boston mayor Marty, Walsh.

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You councillor Thank You council, McCarthy, Thank You blaze, how you doing.

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You go. Thank you very much. It's great to be here today. I want to thank everyone for coming out this fight. Fire is always the biggest tree lighting in the city of Boston and a setting that it's here today. So thank you and the weather's beautiful I want to first of all how about a nice round of applause for the performers. They were incredible.

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I want to thank them all and I want to just take a minute to thank the elected officials were already mentioned, but I want to take them all for the great work they do. I want to congratulate them as well. I want to congratulate Councilwoman councilor George for being reelected council McCarthy being wrecked, re-elected council angel Scott should not yeah, but next year we and really like to thank you as well, for your your support and see Murphy and and all the people that are here today.

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I want to thank Glenn Williams, who does an incredible job. Thank You Glenn. We, let's clap for gladden I, want to thank Tom, Donohue Dennis Kirkpatrick I want to thank alia, forest as well. The director of Main streets I, want to thank all the small businesses that are here today in this great neighborhood. The great work you do. Thank you very much, Rosendale, Main streets and today is is Small, Business Saturday and it's a it's a great great way to start the holiday season.

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I was watching something on the news today they were talking about was last week. Was this Friday the last Black Friday in the country, and we're not sure, but we want to do, is make sure, as you shop in the holiday for the holiday spirits and gifts, you're gonna, be buying, make sure you shop in the local districts, make sure you buy in your local stores the stores. Here they donate to our little leagues. They donate to our shockers.

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They donate some Main streets, they donate to everything we ask them to do and we want to make sure that we support them during this holiday season. They make most of their money during this time of year. So we're asking you please go out and support them and I have a couple in a couple things that I need to introduce. First is we're introducing a shuttle, that's going to connect three main street districts this year, the main street districts of Rosendale, Village, High Park in Roslindale and West Roxbury.

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Excuse me we're gonna use the main streets. Explorer is going to use the connections as Thursdays in December. This is a pilot program. We're gonna see if it works. We get people into these different areas. Shopping second will work. The bus and Main Street foundation is rolling out a brand new website. That's gonna be easy to use and find out the different things you can buy in the different store, so we have.

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And thirdly, let Linda announce, let's all shop, small campaign that we're gonna include our twenty districts around the city of Boston, asking people to buy and I have a proclamation I'm, not gonna, read because as Tim McCarthy said, he introduced me and everyone's excited, but no one's excited about me. They're excited about Santa Claus. Really, so, let's be serious. So I urge all my fellow Bostonians to celebrate us in supporting small businesses in the city of Boston across the United States of America and Small Business Saturday. You, god bless, you happy holidays, everybody.

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We ready for the countdown: let's do it together.

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