<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydpc83d92aeMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><br></p>
<div style="line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">A</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> part-time job for a young person that—conceivably! —could morph into saving and
ultimately owning a biodiversity-oriented business at the Pike Place Market</span></b></div>
<p class="ydpc83d92aeMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><br></p>
<div style="line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dear all,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I believe this is in keeping with Tweeter guidelines so
long as I only come to this well once every four decades. </span></div>
<p class="ydpc83d92aeMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’ve had a store at the Pike Place Market for 40
years. It’s been a great 40 years! The store is still going strong, but I am making
plans to walk away from it as soon as Fall of this year. I’m 72, I don’t want
to miss out on experiencing a retirement, and my partner loves to go birding
and going to her late parents’ conservation-ranch in the bootheel of New
Mexico.</span></p>
<p class="ydpc83d92aeMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There will be sadness for me in the quit for a variety
of reasons. One could conceivably concern members of the Tweeter community or
any biodiversity-oriented-environmentalist or birder. After I quit the Market--which gets visited by
thousands of tourists from all over who are forming their first impressions of
Seattle--there will no longer be a single retailer there whose product line is
primarily devoted to Nature, Wildlife, Birds and Biodiversity.</span></p>
<p class="ydpc83d92aeMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am a wildlife artist (I work in acrylic) and my
store sells prints and posters of my paintings. Although some of the biggest-selling
prints at the store are simply celebrations of the Market, pretty much
everything else is a bird or other critter in Nature. The store includes a
panel explaining Shade Coffee as well as what I call Biodiversity posters such
as <i>Seabirds of the Salish Sea, Warblers of the West, Rockfish of the Northeast Pacific </i>and <i>Butterflies of Puget Sound. </i>There are prints of critters as far from Madison Avenue as Wilson's Warbler and Common Nighthawk.</span></p>
<p class="ydpc83d92aeMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a hope, perhaps just a fantasy, that a young person
with a strong commitment to biodiversity and also an entrepreneurial interest
in business might see a future here. It could begin with a one-day a week job at
the store that could eventually expand into managing the store and eventually,
in a transition as I age, becoming the new acting-owner, at which point they
would be paying me at reduced-below-wholesale prices for the products the store
needs. At the point that I inevitably become uninterested or unable to be
involved in painting and publishing, they would assume full control over all
aspects of the store, including its future creative direction.</span></p>
<p class="ydpc83d92aeMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here I should point out two things, First, it’s not
easy to get a crowd-facing space at the Pike Place Market—I worked the craft
line 16 years, got yanked up to the Economy Arcade in 1999, where eight
businesses failed in the neighboring space until 2012, at which time mine was
expanded to have 17 feet of aisle frontage. </span></p>
<p class="ydpc83d92aeMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Second, any ownership change is by charter a concern of
the Market Managers. However, my feeling is they would be relieved to have the
store continue, even if it morphs somewhat (The Historical Commission also has
a role in what can and can’t be changed. I have found both the Commission and
the PDA to be totally reasonable in the past.)</span></p>
<p class="ydpc83d92aeMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Though it’s mostly unseen by tourists, the store owned
by Birds Connect Seattle, formerly known as Seattle Audubon, immerses its customers
in biodiversity-related products and could provide ideas for directions to go if/when
my prints become less a part of the store’s cash-flow.</span></p>
<p class="ydpc83d92aeMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I should also note that I am not looking for anyone
who has aspirations for a career as a visual artist. I have worked with artists
in many instances over the last 40 years and although I love them and respect
them I don’t want to go into business with them. </span></p>
<p class="ydpc83d92aeMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyone who might just want to work a day at the Market
and not necessarily devote the rest of their lives to the business or who isn’t
young is also welcome to contact me. Anyone who recoils at the thought of
working in sales should know that the sales style I advocate involves absolutely
no “selling”—no up-selling, no hard selling. The hoped-for outcome is for the
customer to walk out of the store with a smile on their face, regardless of
whether they are carrying anything we sell. Pay is based partly on percentage but
is guaranteed to be north of 20/hr. Absolutely equal opportunity employer.</span></p>
<p class="ydpc83d92aeMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc83d92aeMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If anyone is the slightest bit interested or knows
someone this could possibly fit, drop me an email. </span></p>
<p class="ydpc83d92aeMsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:Ednewbold1@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ednewbold1@yahoo.com</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks, Ed Newbold</span></div><br></div></div></body></html>