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Truck dropping off 40ft Storage Container at Area 62 – DTES Street Market in Vancouver
Truck dropping off 40ft Storage Container at Area 62 – DTES Street Market – 62 East Hastings in Vancouver
210th DTES Street Market in Vancouver – Happy Father’s Day!
210th DTES Street Market and 24th Street Market of 2014
Roland Clarke, Coordinator of the DTES Street Market says:
It was a strange summer day.
Rain throughout, and at some times a torrential downpour.
Despite this, we had good stretches during which the weather was bright and sunny, and the market did quite well. The rain kept the crowd down a little, and the volunteers did a great job cleaning the park during and after the market.
The unit block and sidewalks farther east cleared out quite nicely during market hours. Right after the market finished, most of the vendors returned to vend in front of the old, now vacant, United We Can building.
We received some great news over the past week.
The City of Vancouver will help us with a pilot project to increase our capacity and security at the market.
We will employ private security from a local firm, so that there will be a necessary intermediate means of escalation between the street market volunteers and the police. We will be able to ensure that vendors that are not residents of the DTES will not be allowed to vend at our market, and we will be able to better enforce our reasonable market rules (no stolen goods, no weapons, no perishable food items, etc…).
Included in the pilot project will be the ability to print vendor ID badges, and to increase the number of volunteers to patrol the perimeter of the market, and help vendors find places if the market is crowded.
An exciting aspect of the project will be a large Greenway Mural that will define the eastern edge of the market. Local artists and artist organizations will be invited to participate and paint the nearly 40 panels of the 200 foot long mural.
We will be contacting the Guinness book of world records to determine if this would be the longest removable mural in Canada or the World.
We had very few interactions with the VPD on this Sunday.
Roland Clarke, Jacek Lorek and Richard Cunningham have their photos taken by Ben Nelms of The Globe and Mail newspaper
Roland Clarke, Jacek Lorek and Richard Cunningham of DTES Street Market have their photos taken by Ben Nelms, of The Globe and Mail Newspaper in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES) 
209th DTES Street Market in Vancouver
209th DTES Street Market and 23rd Street Market of 2014
Roland Clarke, Coordinator of the DTES Street Market says:
It was a beautiful day.
Only a slight hint of rain kept the weather nice and cool throughout the afternoon.
It was a near perfect day in a street market that was very near capacity.
Despite this, there were no major incidents.
We had a vendor that was kicked out (due to not being from the neighbourhood, and previously selling questionable goods) come back. Due to some help from the VPD, we removed her again from the market.
We also had another positive interaction with the VPD when a vendor was directed to the market from where they were originally selling – on the unit block of East Hastings St.
The vendor came down, and then we tried to find him a new spot within the market, since he originally set up on the east side of Carrall St.
He was a little upset about being moved again, and said he would just go home. We tried to help him, and got good help from the VPD during the interaction.
DTES Street Market crew cleans up Victory Square in Vancouver
On a sunny Friday afternoon, a crew from the DTES Street Market cleans up Victory Square in Vancouver
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