(Updated 12/8/2021)

Together for Hayward e-Gift Card

The Together for Hayward e-Gift Card features many of your favorite retailers, restaurants, services and entertainment in one place. Use the Together for Hayward gift card to discover and support participating locations in the city — there is truly something for everyone!

Find more information on the program here.

How it Works

Select the value of your Together for Hayward gift card. Choose your recipient (family, friends, team members) and send via email or text message. The recipient can use that value to make purchases at participating, gift card merchants.

Become a Participating Business

Apply to be part of our exclusive local network that accepts Together for Hayward e-Gift Card and allow customers the convenience of shopping, eating and playing in our beautiful region. Increase visibility to your business and expand your customer base. Find more information here.

(Updated 12/8/21)

In an effort to respond to several recent public safety concerns and support our recovering downtown business community, the DHIA has recently contracted with Legion Corporation to provide supplemental security patrols 5 days-a-week in downtown Hayward. The patrol shift schedule is set currently from 10:30 AM – 7:00 PM Wednesdays – Sundays, but this is subject to change based upon merchant and stakeholder feedback. Please see the below information for means of contact and reporting real-time incidents in downtown to the appropriate agencies.

DHIA Security Patrols #s: (559) 281-2285 or (559) 260-7840

(only Wednesdays – Sundays)

Hayward PD Non-Emergency Number: (510) 293-7000                 

In Case of Emergency: Call 9-1-1

To be clear, this supplemental security patrol is not intended to respond to emergency or life-threatening situations or scenarios, and in such cases, those reports should go directly to 9-1-1. Furthermore, these security patrols have clear guidance to patrol downtown sidewalks and the public rights-of-way only, and should not be called to resolve private property security concerns or provide security for a private business/venue.

If you have any questions regarding this new security patrol or the general program parameters, please do not hesitate to reach out the DHIA team and we would be happy to respond to your inquiries.

The City of Hayward and Eden Area Interfaith Council will hold a special winter holiday season lighting event in which community members are invited to gather at sundown to mark the moment and support each other and local businesses.

The 2021 installment of the annual Light Up the Season event—beginning at 5
p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11, at City Hall Plaza, 777 B Street—will once again
embrace the themes of Hope and Unity as it continues to adapt and respond to
the effects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

This year, community members are invited to gather in the plaza and hold City-supplied, battery-powered tealight candles as Mayor Barbara Halliday delivers
a seasonal message and decorative light displays are activated, transforming
City Hall Plaza and the City Hall rotunda. The rotunda will again be adorned with banners and a winter tree representative of Hayward’s diversity of seasonal faith and cultural traditions.

Masking and social distancing is encouraged.

During the event, Hayward firefighters will collect unwrapped toys for their
annual Toys for Kids drive. Hayward Animal Shelter staff will be on-hand with 3 animals available for adoption and donation and volunteer opportunities and
experiences.

The Hayward Adult School Raising Leaders project will be giving away 100
backpacks for school-age children and youth filled with school supplies and
dental-hygiene products—while supplies last. Also available and participating: Curbie, the new Hayward Public Library book
mobile, desserts from Marley’s Treats, B Street and greater downtown
merchants and restaurants, and more.