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During these challenging times, we want our customers know that we are here for you. We are making changes moment by moment to insure the safety of our customers and our employees. It is to you that we owe a debt of gratitude. And what matters most, is doing this together, for the community that we all call home. As we enter the busiest part of the year for our local businesses it is more important than ever to SHOP LOCALLY! Your local small businesses and retailers are doing everything possible to open their doors in a safe and respectful way. Please utilize the local options available to you, now and into the future, your community depends on it.
Your Chamber is doing everything possible to continue summer activities, however, with the current situation, we cannot make concrete plans at this time. We will keep you posted as the season progresses. Thank you.
Longville Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce
SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY & LIGHTING OF THE TREE 2019
It was so nice to see how many people showed up today for the Open Houses for Pine Company and Lazy Days, photos with Santa at Common Grounds sponsored by the Longville Women of Today, Carolers, Greg and Dawn Gilsrud serving up hot dogs and hot beverages, lighting of the downtown Christmas tree and the horse drawn wagon rides! Thanks to all who came out. Wishing you all happy holidays!
Here are some photos from today and also the upcoming Open House calendar. Although it is not listed, Brian & Connie will also be having an Open House at BC’s Corral on December 14th from 3-5 pm and would love to see you all come out for a holiday toast!!!
Longville 2019 Christmas Open Houses Poster
HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSES
LIONS HOT DOG/CORN FEED & Y.A.H. CLUB’S BAKE SALE & QUILT RAFFLE
What a great day to wander downtown Longville! Hot dogs and corn (Minnesota Sweet!) served up by the Lions. Y.A.H. Club had a great display of pies, pastries, and sweets along with the chance at the Quilt Raffle, too!
Thanks to all of you that came downtown and participated! There are so many that give their time for this great community!!!
Turtle Races July 3rd, 2019 • RECORD DAY!!!
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IWhat a day for Longville !!! When it was all said and done..we had over 620 turtle racers registered. And doing our regular figuring of 3 other folks escorting each racer…you can do the math…Longville was entertaining more than 2000 people last Wednesday !! The weather was wonderful, a little overcast turned into a gloriously sunny day with mild breezes. The crowds got warmed up with record numbers of hula hoopers and dancers..Moms and Dads, Grandmas and Grandpas out there on main street with the youngsters. Actually turtle racers come in all ages. It’s a generational thing, a family tradition. It takes a lot of volunteers each week to put on the races..and our volunteers are very committed to the work they do there. A normal number of racers in July would be around 350 racers…so you can see our volunteers were really hustling Wednesday. But they did an amazing job and at the end of the last race when the final winner was called… they all were pretty proud of themselves. Many new memories were created that day. Come see us next week and every Wednesday through August 21st. See you at the races.
IWhat a day for Longville !!! When it was all said and done..we had over 620 turtle racers registered. And doing our regular figuring of 3 other folks escorting each racer…you can do the math…Longville was entertaining more than 2000 people last Wednesday !! The weather was wonderful, a little overcast turned into a gloriously sunny day with mild breezes. The crowds got warmed up with record numbers of hula hoopers and dancers..Moms and Dads, Grandmas and Grandpas out there on main street with the youngsters. Actually turtle racers come in all ages. It’s a generational thing, a family tradition. It takes a lot of volunteers each week to put on the races..and our volunteers are very committed to the work they do there. A normal number of racers in July would be around 350 racers…so you can see our volunteers were really hustling Wednesday. But they did an amazing job and at the end of the last race when the final winner was called… they all were pretty proud of themselves. Many new memories were created that day. Come see us next week and every Wednesday through August 21st. See you at the races.