Wabasha’s Holiday Shopping Passport
Shop Local – Win Prizes – Support Small Businesses
Spend $10 or more at participating locations before December 29th and receive a passport stamp. Collect 5 stamps to enter weekly prize drawings!
Enter as many completed passports as you’d like!
Wabasha Community Christmas Celebration
Please join us all day for winter wonderland activities all over town. Meet Mr. & Mrs. Claus in the chamber office from 2:30-5:30pm before the Christmas tree lighting ceremony at 6pm. Live music, food, and fun for all! Complimentary cookies & cocoa in the REMAX office!
Holiday Shopping Passport in Wabasha
🎁✨ Shop Small, Win Big! ✨🎁
This holiday season, celebrate the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Small Business Saturday and beyond with the Wabasha Holiday Shopping Passport — presented by Wabasha Main Street!
🛍️ Beginning Friday, November 29, support your favorite local shops and earn rewards for shopping small!
Here’s how it works:
1️⃣ Make a minimum purchase of $10 at five or more participating businesses.
2️⃣ Get your passport stamped for each qualifying purchase.
3️⃣ Drop your completed passport off at 5th Grant Boutique to enter weekly prize drawings!
🎄 Weekly drawings: Fridays at noon — December 5, 12, 19 & 26
🎅 Grand Finale Drawing: Monday, December 29 at noon at 5th Grant Boutique
💫 Multiple entries allowed (each card must have 5 business stamps!)
🛍️ Participating businesses include:
5th Grant Boutique, LLC • Hill’s Hardware Hank • Bramble & Burr / Iron Bridge Art & Clay • Blossom Shop Florist & Antiques of Wabasha (Cabbage Patch Garden Center) • Driftless Books • Pure Identity Salon & Spa • Make An Offer, LLC • Gerken’s Town & Country • The Chocolate Escape • Old Town Mercantile • Jiggy Mae Boutique • The Common Closet • Local World Gallery • SVJ Creative Designs • National Eagle Center
✨ Every purchase makes a difference — your support keeps Wabasha’s small businesses thriving and our downtown shining bright all season long!
Wabasha Main Street Organization Designated as a 2025 Affiliate Program by Main Street America
Board Members: (Left to Right)
Vice President – Sherri Murphy
Director – Mary Flicek
Board Member and Design Award Winner – Janet Runions
Treasurer – Craig Falkum
Wabasha Main Street Director Wins Preservation Volunteer Award
Outstanding Volunteer Award:
Rethos recognizes that our work in historic preservation and building reuse depends upon the generous and enthusiastic support of our volunteers. We rely on volunteers to welcome guests to dozens of venues during Doors Open Minneapolis, teach DIY homeowner classes, help with important research and office responsibilities, and the list goes on. Nominees for this award have demonstrated a particularly stellar capacity to represent Rethos while sharing their time and energy in the furtherance of our mission.
This year’s Outstanding Volunteer Award goes to Mary Flicek
Mary has served as Wabasha Main Streets volunteer director for over 8 years and has been involved with Main Street for much longer.
It is very easy to say the Wabasha Main Street program simply would not exist without the energy, devotion, and care of Mary Flicek. Mary’s leadership in Main Street efforts has been tremendous in changing the landscape of downtown Wabasha. As an Affiliate Main Street Community for the past eight years, all activity taken place by the Wabasha Main Street program has been volunteer—including all of Mary’s time and energy.
There is no task to big or small for this Mary—whether it’s introducing new businesses, engaging with and serving on local commissions, including the Heritage Preservation Commission, Port Authority- leading local art projects, wrangling construction information, caring for their own historic building, operating her own downtown business, attending trainings, seminars, tours, webinars—Mary does it all. Mary’s deep love and devotion to downtown Wabasha is lasting. Mary and some of her board of directors have attended the Wrecking Ball Gala to represent Wabasha at this annual awards night.
Public Announcement: Paul Bruhn Revitalization Grant Looking Up Downtown Application Period Open
Minnesota Main Streets by Rethos announces applications are now being accepted for the first round of Looking Up Downtown grants.
The Minnesota Main Streets Looking Up Downtown grant program will fund the historic rehabilitation of currently vacant or underutilized upper floors into productive use. Business or building owners within a Minnesota Main Street historic district may apply for up to $50,000 in funding. This competitive grant will fund two rounds of historic rehabilitation and revitalization of historic buildings located in Minnesota Main Streets districts across the state.
