Area consumers reflect on PFD at local market
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Brian O'Connor
Katie Fitzjarrald plays guitar during the last Community Farmer’s Market of the season Saturday at the Nolan Center. Fitzjarrald took a more practical approach to the PFD. “I’ll probably put it on my house,” she said.
Shoppers and vendors milled around the last farmer’s market of the year in the Nolan Center Saturday with commerce on their mind.
It seemed like the perfect opportunity to ask them about the annual boost to the economy known as the Permanent Fund Divident, said to be $900 by state officials Sept. 19. That amount is between nine and four times what the average vendor will make at the market in a weekend, planners and vendors said.
It was not enough, apparently, for most people at the market, to do anything more than deposit it safely in their bank account or pay down some debt.
“I’ll p...
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