Cala Market at Haight and Stanyan is closing

I was getting ready to do another post recommending the Cala Market at Haight and Stanyan as a place to take your plastic shopping bags for recycling---they have a bin for plastic bags just inside the front door---when I picked up the October issue of the Haight-Ashbury Beat, which has a front-page story ("Cala Gone? Gateway to Haight May Have a New Face," George McConnell) on the 24-hour market: It will close in January if the owners---Ralph's Grocery Co.---can't find a buyer. You can take your plastic bags there at least until January. The nearby HANC recycling center doesn't take the plastic bags. The only water machine in District 5 is also in the Cala parking lot.