Summary: Welcome to Roses & Weeds! A City of Tyler podcast that is here to keep you up to date with current events and news related to our beautiful city. In our this episode, we have special returning guests Amber Rojas the city’s Historic Preservation Officer and Adriana Rodriguez with the Liberty Hall Theater and Downtown Tyler Film Festival. With Amber Rojas we talk about Small Business Saturday and opportunities to make your holiday shopping all the more special by buying local. More information on Small Business Saturday including ways to search by what local Tyler Businesses are participating this year check here: https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/shop-small/. If you are a Tyler small business and you are looking to participate or to work with the city to get the word out there please feel free to contact the Gallery Main Street at 905-593-6905 or to reach out to either Amber Rojas or Beverly Abell by email. Amber’s email is arojas@tylertexas.com and Beverly’s is babell@tylertexas.com. We also speak to Adriana Rodriguez about the holiday schedule at the Liberty Hall. Please check out their latest at their website here: https://libertytyler.com. If you want to learn more about the Downtown Tyler Film Festival they can be found on the web here: http://www.tylerfilmfest.com. Roses & Weeds is recorded at the Tyler Innovation Pipeline, which is a makers space staffed by the city of Tyler and the University of Texas Tyler College of Business and Technology where you too can come record a podcast with our world class audio studio, record something on a huge professionally lit green screen, use 3d Printers, Laser Cutters, and so much more. Memberships are now available. Roses & Weeds is hosted by City employees Veronica Brady Innovation Manager of the Innovation Pipeline and by Samuel Brady from the city’s Geographic Information Systems team. If you have any questions, comments, or ideas for future show topics please reach out to us at PublicRelations@TylerTexas.com, and be sure to #roses&weeds all your questions to the City of Tyler on social media. Recordings of City Council, as well as Meeting Agendas, can be found here: tylercitytx.iqm2.com/Citizens/Default.aspx. City Council meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month at City Hall 212 N. Bonner Ave, Tyler, TX 75702. Music used in intro and outro is Surfing day by Marcos H. Bolanos on Unchained Melodies Vol. 2, Creative Commons. Roses & Weeds is a City of Tyler production, all rights reserved. This episode was produced by Bob Mauldin, Julie Goodgame, Samuel Brady, and Veronica Brady. Edited by Samuel Brady. Shownotes by Samuel Brady.
