Santa Day Treat Bag Assembly
12/13/2016- 12/16/2016

Glenwood Rotary Club Meeting
12/13/2016

Glenwood City Commission Meeting
12/13/2016

Magical Christmas in Glenwood - FREE Community Supper
12/15/2016

Rise & Shine - Oak Tree Inn & Penny's Diner
12/16/2016

Annual Eastern Star Bake Sale
12/16/2016

Magical Christmas in Glenwood - FREE Corey's Belgian Horse drawn Trollely Rides, Family Skating Night
12/17/2016

Glenwood Lakes Area Chamber & Welcome Center Board of Directors Meeting
12/19/2016

Pope County Daycare Association Meeting
12/19/2016

Glenwood Rotary Club Meeting
12/20/2016

Pope County Impact Coalition - United Way
12/21/2016

Magical Christmas in Glenwood - Living Nativity
12/22/2016

Santa Treat Day at the Elementary School(s)
12/22/2016

Glenwood Rotary Club Meeting
12/27/2016

Glenwood City Commission Meeting
12/28/2016

Drivers License Exam Testing
01/05/2017

30th Annual Bridal Extravaganza
01/08/2017

Winter Dance - Lakeside Ballroom
01/08/2017

Glenwood Street Reconstruction PMT meeting
01/12/2017

Miller Excavating, LLC
Benjamin (Ben) Miller
akittelson@morris.k12.mn.us
Join Date: 09/13/2016

The Cabin on Amelia
Josh and Maren Ettesvold
Website
thecabinonamelia@gmail.com
Join Date: 09/23/2016

Thomas Larson
Tommy.larson@ymail.com
Join Date: 11/02/2016

Edward Jones
Dusty Christenson
Website
dusty.christenson@edwardjones.com
Join Date: 11/07/2016
 

                                                           

During Magical Christmas in Glenwood green paper magical dollars are given out during December from  participating businesses.  Each business decides how they will use their dollars.

 For purchasing something from their business, the business will give you a magical dollar to use towards another purchase starting in January of 2017.

Each businesses has chosen their own expiration date, so please look for that on your magical dollars.

2016 Participating Businesses:

Ace of Glenwood
Gingerbread Cafe
Meco 7/The Valley Troll
Minnewaska Meats
Screen Prints Plus
The Walk In Closet
Trumm Drug
Uptown Florist

                                                   

Are you or do you know of a new resident, employee, or business in the community? If so, we would like to "Welcome" you with a personal visit, information, and a FREE GIFT from our Glenwood Lakes Area Chamber Members!

To set up a visit, volunteer to be on the Welcome Committee, or to provide information for the Welcome Glenwood bags, please register online by clicking here or contact the Glenwood Lakes Area Chamber & Welcome Center..

Want to earn $50? Whether it's just once or as many times as you want, we want to reward you for new member referrals and promote our Keep It Local program at the same time!

When you refer a business to the Glenwood Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce,  to become a Tier 4-9 Business Chamber Member, then we will reward you with $50 in Minnewaska Dollars!

NOTE: Payment Minnewaska Dollars is AFTER payment is received from the new member.  

​Give us the information of the Business you are referring by completing the form below!  For more information about our Referral Program, please visit our website.

Thank you to those who participated in the  Family Night, Christmas Bazaar at Eagle Bank and the Lighted Holiday Train at the CP Depot in Glenwood.

Thank you to our many sponsors who make it possible to provide these events.  A list of sponsor can be found below or on our website.

Thank you to:

• the many volunteers that helped make our Open House and Family Night a big success.
• the vendors that participated in the Christmas Bazaar at Eagle Bank.
• Eagle Bank and staff for hosting the bazaar again this year.
• the Oak Tree Inn & Penny's Diner for furnishing Christmas treats at the CP Railway Depot during the CP Lighted Holiday Train event

Everyone from the area is invited to attend any or all of these events!

You can find a brief schedule of Magical Christmas by scrolling down.  If you're new to the area and want to know more details Click Here.

As always check out our calendar of events, our local newspapers the Pope County Tribune and Starbuck Times for all the events and activities happening this holiday season!

Have a good week!

We would like to congratulate Hilltop Lumber on being chosen as the Glenwood Lakes Area Chamber December Member of the Month! 

This week's Community Comments is sponsored by the following Glenwood Lakes Area Chamber Members & Individual/Family Supporters:
 

• Mark & Jennifer Ring
• Chris & Heidi Roering
• Someplace Safe
• Sons of Norway Mjosen Lodge #175
• Soo Line Credit Union
• South Pointe RV Park, LLC

Gold Sponsors:
American Solutions for Business
Eagle Bank
Marthaler Chevrolet of Glenwood
Pope County Tribune

Silver:
Hilltop Lumber

Bonze Sponsors
Midwest Machinery Company
Tanis Aircraft Products
Minnewaska Jaycees
Dorrich Dairy
KMGK 107.1 FM
Minnewaska PTA
Glacial Hills Elementary School

Tinsel Sponsors
American Diversity
Studio E Architects
Shopko
Oak Tree Inn & Penny's Diner

• Clueless the Christmas Elf will be doing balloon twisting at the community supper from 4:00-7:00 p.m.
• Coloring Contest - You can still enter the contest! 

   
   Take a moment to reflect on the 
   reason for the season. 

   Come and experience the Living 
   Nativity, Thursday evening,
   December 22, 2016 from
                                       4:00-7:00 p.m.  

We will be located on the vacant lot between Grandstay and the Glenwood Chamber & Welcome Center.  See real camels, donkey and other farm animals.  Free cookies and cider will be served at Tom's Market.  Enjoy music by Hope Church from 6:00-6:45 p.m.

We are in need of some actors (no speaking parts) for our annual Living Nativity.
Needed First Shift: 4:00-5:30 p.m.:
2 - Shepherds
1 - Angel
 Mary 
Joseph

Needed Second Shift: 5:30-7:00 p.m.
3 - Angels
1 - King
3 - Shepherds
Mary
Joseph

Actors need to dress for the weather.  We provide costumes that will fit over winter clothing!

If you're interested or know of someone that is interested in participating, contact Kay
at 634-3636.
 

             

On Saturday evening, December 17th we will have our first event at Barsness Park.  The park  is located on Hwy 104 South, across from the Swimming beach.  Look for the lights!

Corey's Belgian horse drawn trolley rides will be at the park on Saturday night from 4:00-7:00 p.m.    Enjoy the great outdoors and beautiful horses while taking a free trolley ride at Barsness Park.  

The family skating will also be held  Saturday evening from 4:00-8:00 p.m.

We will have Glenhaven building/warming house open.  Come on in and warm up with some holiday treats and hot chocolate. 

Those children ages 12 & under that still want to enter the coloring contest can pick up a coloring page or color their picture while attending this event.

 

Click here to become a Sponsor of the  
Pope County Community Expo

Saturday, April 8, 2017 
Minnewaska Area High School
9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. 


Click here to see the current map for Sponsors and Exhibitors. The map, if you scroll over the booths, will show if they are available or already taken, prices, sizes, and amenities that are included. Once a booth is reserved (first-come, first-serve), another exhibitor will not be able to select it.

Sponsors will choose their booth(s) and upload their logos into the system at the time of registration. Booth locations are limited, so be sure to register early to get the spot(s) you wish to choose.

One work around that we are aware of is that the registration system will charge our sponsors for their booth rental fees at the time they register, but know that once you are registered, we will correct that pricing and issue a new invoice for Sponsors from our office until we find a way around that issue.

Here are the following Sponsorship levels for this year's event:

• Logo on promotional give-away items
• Booth location(s) selected prior to regular exhibitor registration opening
• 3 standard booths OR 1 premium booth plus 1 standard and/or outdoor booth
• Color logo on all promotional community display boards, posters & email blasts
• 1/4 page color ad in the Pope County Community Expo Special Edition Newspaper

Silver: $1,600.00

• Booth location(s) selected prior to regular exhibitor registration opening
• 2 standard booths OR 1 premium booth
• Name mention on all promotional community display boards, posters & email blasts
• 1/8 page color ad in the Pope County Community Expo Special Edition Newspaper

• Booth location(s) selected prior to regular exhibitor registration opening
• 1 standard booths
• Name mention on all promotional community display boards, posters & email blasts

We are using a new event registration system that has been built for the Expo, so please bear with us as we test out the system for the first time and learn as we go!