Downtown Spring Cleanup and BBQ
April 17, 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Castonguay Square – Across from City Hall in Downtown Waterville
Join KV Connect members, Waterville Main Street volunteers, and Colby College students for our annual Downtown Spring Clean-up. Volunteers will meet in Castonguay Square at 10am to break up into teams. Limited tools will be available, so please bring your own rakes, brooms, and gloves if you have them. The clean-up is followed by a thank you BBQ for all the volunteers. Families are welcome!
Cast Your Vote for the 2010 Downtown Business of the Year!
The following businesses have been nominated by their peers for the 2010 Downtown Business of the Year Award:
- Cancun Mexican Restaurant
- Cornerstone Dental
- Mainely Brews Restaurant & Brewhouse
- SBS Carbon Copy
- Sign of the Sun
- Spell Bound
Click here to vote for one of these outstanding businesses. Voting closes April 9! The Downtown Business of the Year Award will be presented at the 6th Annual Downtown Celebration to be held on Thursday, May 13th at 5:30pm at the Hathaway Creative Center.
WMSt Receives Award from Mid-Maine Chamber
On Wednesday, March 24, WMSt was awarded the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce’s Community Service Project of the Year Award, which is presented annually to a nonprofit that enhances community, is good for economic well-being of the area, and encourages further development in the region.
Artist Tim Gaudreau explores Waterville’s sense of place
Portsmouth, NH based artist Tim Gaudreau arrived in Waterville on September 11, 2009 for a two-week residency designed to explore the Waterville community and its unique sense of place through a multi-dimensional public art project.
Commissioned by Waterville Main Street and funded by a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts, Tim’s work included collecting residents’ thoughts on Waterville, its history and its future, and documenting Waterville’s sense of place and community through an interactive “photo booth” and the distribution, circulation, and collection of 15 “seeds.” (pictured above right)
The culmination of Tim’s work, the Community Portrait Collage (pictured left), is on display at Barrels Community Market, located at 74 Main Street and open Monday through Saturday from 10am to 7pm. The collage incorporates photos, notes, personal stories, and other materials collected through the seeds.
Read Tim’s artist statement (also on display at Barrels).
Buy Downtown Waterville Gear at Cafe Press
If you want to publicly declare your love for Downtown Waterville, check out the various items you can buy from Waterville Main Street’s Cafe Press store, where you will find t-shirts, tote bags and buttons. If you have a slogan or design you want to see created, send me an email at shannon@watervillemainstreet.org and maybe we will feature YOUR design! The best thing? A portion of all sales goes to support WMSt and our year-round program of work.
Waterville Main Street Mystery Shopper Program
One of the goals of the Economic Restructuring Committee of Waterville Main Street (WMSt) is to help the businesses of Downtown Waterville deliver the best customer service in the WORLD! In order to do that, we have developed a mystery shopper program to help businesses find out what kind of service they are delivering to their customers now. While we have enough mystery shoppers to meet our current needs, we may be looking for more shoppers in the future. The best way to find out? Join our e-newsletter or our facebook page, by following the links in the left hand column of this page.
