November 26 2012 | |
Carolers please!
If anyone is free on Thursday night and wants to join in our caroling fun please let us know - we will have carolers at many businesses in town so if you are free between 5-7pm give us a call. We'd love to have as many singers as we can!
December Business After 5Mark your calendar for the final Business After 5 event of the year! Rosewood Manor will host us on Tuesday December 11. Please click here for the invitation! Business After 5 hosting
Are you interested in hosting a Business After 5 event in 2013? Sign up is now open for next year's events so let us know if you are keen. Businesses are encouraged to co-host if you'd like and no matter if your business or big or small we'd love you to host. Give us a call if you want to sign up or if you have any questions.
Christmas shopping ideasThe Chamber has a few fun Estherville-themed items for sale! Our popular Estherville Midget blankets are big and warm and cost just $25. We've also got a handful of our Estherville pickle buckets for $20. And of course we have Estherville Bucks that are ideal for all - if you want to order some for your staff or family or friends just give us a call! Optimize your business profile!
Part of the new estherville.org website is a great benefit for members - a free website! The 'traffic catcher site' is a great way to make sure your business gets found online as often as possible. To get your site up and running, please LOGIN to www.estherville.org and click REQUEST OPTIMIZATION. If you have any issues please call us. These sites are free, easy to set up (our website company helps you!) and are a great online tool for potential business for you!
Submit your events!
Be sure to keep adding your events to Estherville's online community calendar! Any community member can submit an event, so be sure to check out the events calendar here. Bookmark this and be an active contributor so people in and out of town can find out what's happening in the Estherville area.
| Winter Nights, Holiday Lights and TUBACHRISTMAS this Thursday!The “Winter Nights, Holiday Lights” event starts at 5pm around the downtown Estherville area. Santa House will open for the first time this season, and kids can visit with Santa from 5-7pm. Be sure to enjoy late night shopping at retail businesses and vote for which business has the best holiday window display. Voting forms can be picked up and returned to Santa House We’ll also have our wagon rides from 5-7pm, and carolers and tuba players will also be out adding holiday spirit throughout the town. Carolers from the ELC schools, Iowa Lakes and Many Voices choir will perform around local stores. TUBACHRISTMAS will take place at 6pm at Hy-Vee and 6.30pm at the United Methodist Church. At 7pm in Library Square, carolers and TUBACHRISTMAS players will all give a lovely Christmas concert to end the evening. The public is welcome to join in as well! Santa HouseWe would love donations of candy canes to be given to the kids visiting Santa! Thanks Heartland Americana, Inman Electric/Radio Shack, Outlet Store, Racines for Him and Her and Estherville Drug for their donations. If you would like a poster to hang up at your business to promote Santa House, we'd encourage you to print and hang this poster. 2012 Santa House opening hours:
Annual Banquet
The Annual Banquet will be held at the VFW on Thursday January 17th - we'll be sending an invitation out soon but please save the date now. We plan to kick off the social hour at 5.30pm. We are very excited to plan this great night out and we hope to see you all there!
Farm and Home ShowAmbassador Corner![]() ![]() The Ambassadors also attended the Iowa Lakes Communty College Video Conference System Launch last week, and will be attending the grand opening of Shopko this Thursday! It's great to have so much happening in our business community. |
Chamber updates - November 26 2012 |