>>> BOOTH VENDORS
Food Booths: Set up at your designated time. If unable, contact Melinda immediately for further instructions.
 
Arts/Crafts/Businesses: Setup at your designated time. If you choose to set up after 10:00AM, then you will need to walk items to your booth space, as Mercer is closed.

On Sunday, booths can be set up from 7:00AM-10:00AM.

No refunds will be given. We expect this festival to continue rain or shine. Rain did not deter our founders on the wagon trail to Dripping Springs, and it will not deter our community's largest festival of the year!

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ARTS AND CRAFTS FOR ALL AGES

  >>> St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church, organizer for the event, coordinates the booths with artisans and craftspeople from all around the Hill Country to sell their unique, hand-crafted items.  

  >>> Stroll down Mercer Street and discover booths brimming with unique clothing, hand-made items, furniture, pottery, birdhouses, custom jewelry, and crafts for the kids.  Meet local merchants as they welcome you into their downtown shops.

  >>> In addition to the craft vendors, booths are also offered to many non-profit organizations such as Friends of the Pound House, local scouting and veterans groups, PAWS, Livestrong, Gabriel Project, Hays County Sheriff, Crime Stoppers, Circle of Friends, CASA, and Relay for Life. These non-profit organizations provide festival-goers with unique opportunities to support local charities. Build a bird house! Buy a raffle ticket! Adopt a dog!

  >>> The funds raised by St. Martins from renting these booths, charitably benefit hundreds of people from Dripping Springs, Wimberley, Blanco, and Johnson City with their utilities, rent, and medicine during the year. These funds are also used to help support the food pantry that spends over $6,000 a year helping families throughout this area. 

  >>> For more information:
Mara Cardwell
mara.cardwell@zeecon.com

Download application from home page "Quick Links" here.

BOOTHS ARE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES!

  >>> Over 3,500 people are expected at the 2009 Founders Day Festival providing businesses with a great opportunity to meet the public. The DS Area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring business booths for new and local vendors. What a great way to greet your customers, extend goodwill, donate to the community, network with other businesses and communicate first-hand your products or services. Applications are on a first come, first serve basis.

  >>> For more information:
Mara Caldwell
mara.caldwell@zeecon.com

Download application from home page "Quick Links" here.