 Hello and welcome to This Week in the City. Highlights brought to you from the Public Relations Media and Marketing Department with the City of Columbia. On Tuesday, September 12th, Columbia City Council will hold committed meetings. These are the details for the meetings for this week. Mayor Daniel Rickerman will be holding a town hall meeting in each of the four City Council districts, as well as a meeting for the business community. The first meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 12th at 6 p.m. at Earlwood Park, located in 1113 Recreation Drive. This meeting is for constituents and residents of District 1. Again, City Council District 1, the Mayor's Town Hall meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 12th at 6 p.m. at Earlwood Park, 1113 Recreation Drive. For additional information regarding these meetings, please visit our website at columnsc.gov or contact the Mayor's Office at 803-545-3075. Local small business owners and entrepreneurs can also join the Office of Business Opportunities on Tuesday, September 12th, for a workshop. The Office of Business Opportunities is partnering with the Richland Library, SCORE, and the U.S. Small Business Administration, the South Carolina Small Business Development Center and the Benedict College Women's Business Center to host the Columbia Lender Matchmaker event on Tuesday, September 12th, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Richland Library Main Auditorium. For additional details regarding this workshop, please visit our website at columnsc.gov or contact the Office of Business Opportunities. On September 13th, the City, along with Dominion Energy, will hold a joint press conference regarding Saludo River Access. The press conference will be held at 2 p.m. The press conference will be live-streamed and you can view it on our city's website at columnsc.gov or from our YouTube channel. On Thursday, September 14th, please join Mayor Daniel Rickerman, Columbia City Council members, the City Manager, Teresa Wilson, along with city officials and the local community, for a ground-breaking ceremony for Filming Park. The Revalalization Project will begin on September 14th on Thursday at 10 a.m. with a ground-breaking. The ground-breaking will be held again at Filming Park, located at 930 Laurel Street. For additional details regarding this major project and ground-breaking ceremony, please visit our website at columnsc.gov or contact our Parks and Recreation Department at 803-545-3100. On Thursday, September 14th, the Office of Business Opportunities will host another workshop this week. The Office of Business Opportunities will host Selling My Business, a workshop with guest speaker Doug Lienberry. The workshop will be held from 11 a.m. until 12.30 p.m. at Irwin Park, located at 11.13 Recreation Drive. Participants in this workshop will learn what copyrights are and how they are valuable to a company, how to protect trademarks and the value in protecting a trademark, and what a basic contract does to a small business and what could happen if there is not a contract in place. To register for this workshop, please visit our website at columnsc.gov or find the workshop link on our social media platforms on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. You can also call the Office of Business Opportunities at 803-545-3950 for assistance. Also on Thursday, September 14th, the Planning Commission will meet at 4 p.m. at City Hall and Council Chambers. For agenda items, visit our website at columnsc.gov. You can also visit our website if you would like to view the meeting via livestream. There will also be a public community meeting held on the evening of Thursday, September 14th. City of Water will host the Rosewood Phase 1 public meeting, starting at 5.30 p.m. and ending at 6.30 p.m. This public meeting will be held at the Edistone Discovery Park. Again that's Thursday, September 14th at 5.30 p.m. and the meeting ends at 6.30 p.m. For additional details, visit the Columbia Water website and also check out their social media platforms for more details. On Friday, September 15th, City Officials will join Five Points Officials for a Commemoration Ceremony in honor of the late Joe Azar. This ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. on Richardson Street. On Friday, September 15th, please join the Planning and Development Services Team along with Locals for Parking Day, join them on Main Street and on other streets in the downtown City Center Corridor. Parking Day will be held starting the morning at 10 a.m. and will end that afternoon. Come out and see what inventive ideas are developed for Parking Day this year. And once you finish visiting Parking Day on Friday, September 15th, please go out to Food Truck Friday at the REI Co-op Parking Lot located at the corner of Bull and Colonial. Come out and try some of the best food from Food Truck vendors in the City of Columbia. Food trucks will be at the location from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. As you will see on your screen, these are the food trucks that will be at the location this Friday. You can also support a fundraising effort for Breast Cancer Awareness on Friday, September 15th by coming out to the Popcorn and Lemonade sale to be held at the City of Columbia's Payment Center located at 3000 Hardin Street. Come out between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. and spend your lunchtime getting some delicious popcorn and thirst quenching lemonade while also supporting a very worthy cause. Friday, September 15th also kicks off National Adoption Weekend. Come out to Columbia Animal Services on Friday, September 15th and Saturday, September 16th for free pet adoptions on both days. For hours for the shelter, please visit our website at ColumbiaSC.gov or call 803-776-PETS for more information. And on September 16th, it's time for the Dulk Tank fundraiser featuring Mayor Daniel Rickerman. Come out and dunk the Mayor for a worthy cause. All proceeds from this fundraiser will go to Benefit Sistercare and money will be donated to the organization in October during Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Mayor Daniel Rickerman has volunteered to sit in the dunking tank on Saturday, September 16th starting at 10 a.m. and ending at 1 p.m. Come out and take a chance to dunk the Mayor and support a worthy cause which is increasing awareness about domestic violence. For additional details, visit our website at ColumbiaSC.gov or contact Public Relations Media and Marketing at 803-545-3020 or email us at PIO at ColumbiaSC.gov. So this is definitely a very, very busy week in the city and we share lots of details about lots of various events and meetings. If you would like a repeat of this information or more details about any of our events and meetings, visit our website at ColumbiaSC.gov. Also follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. You can also email us at PIO at ColumbiaSC.gov with your questions or call us at 803-545-3020. Do what you can to get connected with the city and we are right here to help you. Remember, we are Columbia.