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!
🎁✨ 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 [...]
Board Members: (Left to Right) Vice President - Sherri Murphy Director - Mary Flicek Board Member and Design Award Winner - Janet Runions Treasurer - Craig Falkum
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 [...]
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. Learn More → Request Application
May 1 , 2024, St. Paul – This year’s Main Street Local Lightning Rod Award was granted to Mary Flicek, Wabasha Main Street Director, at the Minnesota Main Streets State Conference in Owatonna. This award recognizes an outstanding Main Street Staff Member, Volunteer, or Stakeholder, and the efforts they have put forth in support of Main Street efforts, either event-specific or in general support of the district. Celebrating each of the Four Points (Design, Economic Vitality, Organization, Promotion) of the Main Street Approach, Minnesota Main Streets awards people, businesses, or organizations that have been catalysts for major change in their district. As an outstanding volunteer who has given thousands of hours of her time, Flicek has been instrumental in creating and maintaining the Wabasha Main Street program. “It is very easy to say that this Main Street program simply would not exist without the energy, devotion, and care of this individual,” says Rethos Community Programs Director Emily Kurash-Casey. “I’ve been honored to work alongside Mary during my tenure as a local Main Street Director and I’m ceaselessly impressed by their energy, and their deep love of their downtown. It’s not a far stretch to say that this downtown has [...]
May 1 , 2024, St. Paul – This year’s Main Street Community Mobilization Award was granted to Wabash artist Sue Mundy at the Minnesota Main Streets State Conference in Owatonna. Celebrating each of the Four Points (Design, Economic Vitality, Organization, Promotion) of the Main Street Approach, Minnesota Main Streets awards a person who has been a catalyst for major change in their district. For her positive effect in Organization, Sue Munday was honored not only for her efforts on Wabasha Main Street’s “Public Places are Sacred Spaces” Mural, but also for her work on many projects and installations in Wabasha’s downtown. With her exceptional community leadership, managing 40+ individual volunteers and more than 750 hours of community volunteerism including the planning, design, painting, and presenting of each mural, Mundy has collaborated with Wabasha’s Main Street Program to steward funding from the Artists on Main Street program, Blandin Foundation, Southeast Minnesota Arts Council, Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation, Wabasha-Kellogg Area Community Foundation, and more than 15 corporate and individual donors. Additionally, there were collaborations on two mural compositions with Wabasha poet Pam Larson, and Minnesota artists Jalayahraven Whitecloud and Inkpa Mani. Wabasha Mayor Emily Duran shared, “Sue is a Main Street [...]
Wabasha Main Street celebrates the 2023 holiday season and 14th Annual Small Business Saturday® by promoting Shop Local, Dine Local events as an American Express® Neighborhood Champion. Wabasha, MN November 15, 2023. Wabasha Main Street announced today that, as a member of the American Express® Neighborhood Champion Program, it will be partnering with American Express again for its 8th year in promoting Shop Small, Shop Local this Holiday Season as part of Small Business Saturday, which takes place on Nov 25th and all holiday season long. Created by American Express in 2010, Small Business Saturday celebrates the impact small businesses have on communities across the country. Wabasha Main Street encourages you to Shop Local, Dine Local and Stay Local first either in person, curbside, delivery, online or virtually. Supporting local helps keep these businesses alive during the holidays and all year long. In order to drive shoppers to Shop Small® this Nov 25th, Wabasha Main Street is participating in the American Express® Neighborhood Champion Program to spotlight small businesses and the impact they have on communities. According to the 2019 Small Business Saturday Consumer Insights Survey, 97% of consumers who shopped on Small Business Saturday agree that small businesses are [...]
A new mural project is complete in Wabasha, MN! Local artist, Sue Mundy designed a 10' by 55' foot mural located on the back of the Hill's Hardware Hank overlooking the new amphitheater and the Mississippi River. Part of this activity is made possible through a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council in cooperation with a private foundation. The mural is complete and the artists have signed it. We are still taking donations and will announce a Public invitation to the dedication very soon. Follow this project on the Wabasha Main Street Facebook Page. Interested in Supporting this Project? Donate Online Today!
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