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.

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.