Please share this with Veterans, and especially, Vietnam Veterans. Thank you.
Major General James T. Jackson, U.S. Army (Retired), who serves as the Director of The United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration will conduct the ‘Pinning.’
The Brookharts and Howard Schneider (with Barleens Dinner Show) will provide music.
Speakers include Major General Jackson, Vietnam Veteran Chuck Byers, and author and Veteran Nancy Fassbender.
The POW-MIA Table Ceremony will be performed by the East Valley Young Marines.
Before and after the remembrance, adults and children are invited to write notes and color pictures to go into ‘Packages From Home’ care packages destined to go to the Middle East.
The Vietnam Veteran, who was shunned by the public, is an advocacy powerhouse, partnering with Korean War Veterans to insure that Afghanistan and Iraq Veterans are cared for and honored properly, something denied to them.
The Mesa Market Place is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 7:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. and is at 10550 E. Baseline Rd., Mesa, AZ 85209, at exit 193 Signal Butte Rd. and Hwy 60. Info: 480-380-5572 and www.mesamarket.com. Fully handicapped accessible. Free Parking, admission, and entertainment.
Background on the Speakers:
Chuck Byers served as a Medic in Vietnam. Chuck Byers, was inducted into the Arizona Veterans Hall of Fame. He is a Congressional Liaison for Military and Veterans Affairs for Congresswoman Debbie Lesko, Arizona 8th District.
Author Nancy Fassbender will speak about U.S. Marine Cpl. William Wesley Patterson, who served and lost his life serving in Vietnam. Nancy Fassbender penned, ‘My Fallen Hero,’ about Pinal County service people who gave their lives in wars and conflicts to protect our freedoms. She also serves as a board member of The Pinal County Veterans Memorial Foundation.
The Pinal County Veterans Memorial Foundation is sponsoring this event. We have Ms. Fassbender and the PCVMF to thank for enabling Major General Jackson to conduct this official event.
The Pinal County Veterans Memorial Foundation is sponsoring this event. We have the PCVMF to thank for enabling Major General Jackson to conduct this official event.
Sunday March 17th, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
A FREE Family and Community Event.
We’re celebrating St. Patrick’s Day here at Mesa Marketplace by giving away market money; offering free face painting, balloon animals and kids’ crafts. The main restaurant will be serving green beer and corn beef sandwiches to get everyone in the Irish spirit. So come on down between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and celebrate this green holiday the right way with Mesa Marketplace!
Right now, Mesa Market Place is enjoying Winter High Season Hours: Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays 7am to 4pm. Parking is free, admission is free, and our live music in our Food Court is also free!
Head to our Coupon Page on our Website: www.mesamarket.com for our $2 and $2.50 breakfast coupons, depending on whether you want to be an early bird or not! You’ll get two eggs, toast, and hash browns! We also serve up omelets, breakfast burritos, and other favorites. Breakfast is served from 7am to 10:30am.
A Free Music Celebration for the entire Family!
Put on your dance shoes and head to Mesa Market Place Swap Meet on Saturday, May 4, 2019 from 9am to 1pm! And bring the whole family. We’ve planned a fun day for everyone!
Dancing With the Stars introduced us to Latin Music: we’ve all come to love the Cuban Salsa, the Rumba, the Cha-Cha, the Paso Doble, and contemporary Reggaeton, too!
DJ Rico Roloff will spin your favorite Latin Dance Music, performed by classics like Tito Puente, Santana, Selena, Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan, and also by contemporary performers like Pit Bull, Rosalia, Maluma, Cupid, Ariana Grande, and Juanes! You won’t be able to sit still because you’ll be having too much fun!
This is a family event! A craft table will be set up for young people to make crepe paper flowers, and Latin Festival Foods will also be available for purchase.
There will be contests and drawings where we’ll give away Mesa Market Money.
Right now, Mesa Market Place is enjoying Winter High Season Hours: Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays 7am to 4pm. Parking is free, admission is free, and our live music in our Food Court is also free!
Head to our Coupon Page on our Website: www.mesamarket.com for our $2 and $2.50 breakfast coupons, depending on whether you want to be an early bird or not! You’ll get two eggs, toast, and hash browns! We also serve up omelets, breakfast burritos, and other favorites. Breakfast is served from 7am to 10:30am.
Mesa Market Place is located at 10550 E. Baseline Rd., Mesa, AZ 85209, at exit 193 Signal Butte Rd. and Hwy 60. Info: 480-380-5572 and www.mesamarket.com. Fully handicapped accessible. Free Parking, admission, and entertainment.
Saturday, May 11 from 11am to 2pm in our Food Court
Looking for something to do with your mom this Mother’s Day weekend? Why not treat her to a day of shopping at Mesa Marketplace? Come on down Saturday May 11th to sip and shop with us and head over to the main restaurant to win some market money to spend on your Mother’s Day shopping spree!
Moms everywhere will appreciate out merchants that carry anything from swimwear to beautiful home décor for great deals you can only get at the market.
Click on the flyer for a printable one!
You’re invited to attend our Memorial Remembrance at the Mesa Market Place Swap Meet Saturday, May 25 at 10:30 a.m. The event will take place in the middle of the second row, Row B, in the Food Court.
The Motorcycle Color Guard of America will begin the remembrance by presenting the American flag, and will also honor veterans in the audience by presenting flags for the five branches of the Armed Forces. There is nothing like National and Branch Service flags flowing in the breeze behind a motorcycle.
Vietnam Veteran, Medic, and Purple Heart recipient, Chuck Byers will present the Keynote address. Chuck Byers was recently inducted into the Arizona Veterans Hall of Fame.
The East Valley Young Marines will perform the ‘Missing Man’ Ceremony and the ‘Twelve-Fold’ Flag Ceremony.
Author Nancy Fassbender will speak about a Pinal County service person, who served and lost his life serving during war. Nancy Fassbender penned, ‘My Fallen Hero,’ about Pinal County service people who gave their lives in wars and conflicts to protect our freedoms.
Both young folks and grownups are invited to write notes and to color pictures to be included in Care Packages for Active Duty Service People in the Middle East, sent by Packages From Home.
Packages From Home sends thousands of care packages to military personnel serving in the Middle East every year, and will not send a package out without including a personal note or picture in it.
All of your creations will be delivered to them to remind our active duty Armed Forces personnel that they are remembered and are appreciated. Many of them are parents, and it means a lot to them to get an original piece of art from a young person. For more information about Packages From Home, go to www.packagesfromhome.org.
Mesa Market Place is open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and is at 10550 E. Baseline Rd., Mesa, AZ 85209, at exit 193 Signal Butte Rd. and Hwy 60. Info: 480-380-5572 and www.mesamarket.com. Fully handicapped accessible. Free Parking, admission, and entertainment.
Sunday, June 16th 2019 9 a.m. to Noon at the Food Court
Looking for something to do with your dad this Father’s Day? Why not treat him to a couple of draft beers and live entertainment at Mesa Market Place?
Come on down Sunday, June 16th enjoy a cold one with us at the main restaurant and win some market money to spend here at the market!
Dads everywhere will appreciate our merchants; they offer Dawgs sandals, golf equipment and weather resistant outdoor furniture! And beer is only $4 at all our snack bars and in our Food Court!
Click here for a printable flyer.
Click here for a printable Registration Form.
If you like car shows and you love what the Arizona Humane Society does to ease the lives of dogs, cats, and other domestic animals, then you’ll want to head over to the 2019 Charity Car Show Saturday, September 21 at the Mesa Market Place Swap Meet. The show runs from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.
The Arizona Humane Society Waggin’ Wheels Mobile Adoption Vehicle will also be at the car show, full of puppies and dogs looking for a good home. Adoptions will take place from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m.
In addition to voting for your favorite cars by ‘stuffing their canisters full of money,’ animal lovers are also invited to donate pet food, bedding, and toys for all the animals in the care of the Arizona Humane Society’s two campuses.
More than 100 vintage, classic, and modified cars, trucks, and motorcycles are expected to be on display in the hopes that car enthusiasts and animal lovers will stuff dollar bills into money bins set in front of each vehicle.
“Exhibitors are even encouraged to solicit votes (money) before the car show begins,” says Shirley Blahak, event organizer. “The goals of the car show are straight forward: to get together with other car aficionados, to have a good time, and to raise as much money as possible for the Arizona Humane Society.” It’s all in good fun because 100% of the money the vehicles raise will be donated to the Arizona Humane Society.
Each entrant will go home with a 2019 Charity Car Show dash plaque. The top five money makers will each be awarded an engraved remembrance.
The show, an annual event, is sponsored by Arizona Mini Owners, a cheerful group of newer and vintage Mini Cooper owners.
Expected at the event are a large number of Mini Coopers and a number of PT Cruisers. Several vintage Triumphs and Austin Healeys will also be there, as will an authentic London taxi. Ford, Chevrolet, and Chrysler lovers will be happy to see vintage, classic and modified cars and trucks on exhibit, too.
And there will be a real treat for military collectors at the show, too. Dr. Baron Smith is bringing in his Vietnam era helicopter (1970), a Series III OH-6A Hardbelly and a ‘Deucy’ M35 triple-axle 2 ½ ton cargo truck.
In past years, some of the shows entries have been unusual. Children caught up with the idea of raising money for charity have even entered their Tonka trucks and midget race cars. Other unusual entries have included bicycles and motorcycle trikes.
So if you have a vehicle you’d like to enter, big or little, no matter how many tires, you can get more information at www.mesamarket.com. There is a $5. entry fee ($10. after August 25.)
Professional quilter, Shirley Blahak, has embroidered a quilted comforter called ‘A Tribute to the Road’ to be auctioned off to raise additional money for the Arizona Humane Society the day of the event. The quilted comforter features iconic show vehicles and muscle cars.
Attendees will also enjoy being entertained by Blue Electric Entertainment. They’ll spin platters from the 50’s through today’s music.
The event is free to the public (except for donations made to the Arizona Humane Society). Parking and admission is always free at the Mesa Market Place.
The event runs from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Mesa Market Place is open 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Signal Butte & Hwy 60. 10550 E. Baseline Rd. Mesa. 480.380.5572. www.mesamarket.com. 100% Handicap accessible.
Click here for a printable flyer.
Military Day at Mesa Market Place
Military Vehicle and Equipment Event from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 pm., and Beirut Barracks Bombing Remembrance at Mesa Market Place Swap Meet, Saturday, October 19, 11:00 a.m.
The Military Vehicle and Equipment Event: There’s nothing like vintage Military Vehicles to evoke memories for anyone who served in the Armed Forces. Dozens of vehicles will be on display that have been painstakingly rehabilitated to operational status. These vehicles will be a testimony to the soldiers who used these vehicles in conflict and during wartime.
And there will be a real treat for military collectors at the show, too. Dr. Baron Smith is bringing in his Vietnam era helicopter (1970), a Series III OH-6A Hardbelly and a ‘Deucy’ M35 triple-axle 2 ½ ton cargo truck.
There will also be equipment, uniforms and swag on display.
The Beirut Barracks Remembrance: The public and all service people are invited to participate in Mesa Market Place Swap Meet’s Beirut Barracks Bombings Remembrance at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 19 The POW MIA KIA Honor Guard will officiate and lead the remembrance.
Here is some background information about the Beirut Barracks Bombings. On October 23, 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon, during the Lebanese Civil War, two truck bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military forces—members of the Multinational Force (MNF) in Lebanon—killing 299 American and French servicemen.
In the attack on the building serving as a barracks for the 1st Battalion 8th Marines (Battalion Landing Team – BLT 1/8), the death toll was 241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers, along with 60 Americans injured, representing the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since World War II’s Battle of Iwo Jima, the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States military since the first day of the Vietnam War’s Tet Offensive, and the deadliest single attack on Americans overseas since World War II.
Military Day will be set up on the Fourth Row, Row D. The event is free.
A table will be set up so adults and children can write notes and color pictures to go into ‘Packages From Home’ care packages headed to service people serving in the Middle East.
The Mesa Market Place is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 7:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. and is at 10550 E. Baseline Rd., Mesa, AZ 85209, at exit 193 Signal Butte Rd. and Hwy 60. Info: 480-380-5572 and www.mesamarket.com. Fully handicapped accessible. Free Parking, admission, and entertainment.
Saturday, October 26, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.:
A free family event: Safe Haven Trick or Treating at the Mesa Market Place Swap Meet!
Bring all your ghosts and goblins in costume and let then trick or treat their way through 1600 booths starting at the Food Court! Trick or Treaters will each get a trick or treat bag and will enjoy contests, surprises, and treats throughout the day.
We’ll also have face painters here to make your costumes complete!
Merchants join in the festivities, too, by offering up candy, treats, and toys! “We have 900 merchants stocking 1600 shop spaces! I think this is the biggest daylight ‘Trick or Treat’ event in the state of Arizona,” said Joan Wells, Market Place event organizer.
The Mesa Market Place is open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, 7:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. and is at 10550 E. Baseline Rd., Mesa, AZ 85209, at exit 193 Signal Butte Rd. and Hwy 60. Info: 480-380-5572 and www.mesamarket.com. Fully handicapped accessible. Free parking, admission, and entertainment.
