Beatrice Area Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Beatrice NE, 68310 Gage County

Chamber Office will be closed Friday July 3rd

in observance of Independence Day

Have a safe Holiday!

Homestead Days

Super Raffle

Congratulations to all

the raffle winners.

The top winners are:

Lynn Weaver

Ron Fleecs

Ashley Mentgen

Ann Westphal

Tim Rayburn

Gary Swanson

Thank you for supporting the Homestead Days Raffle and your community!!

Special Thanks to all the businesses that contributed items for this Raffle!!!

If your name appears on the following list, please come down to the Chamber office to pick up your prize package!

For partial listing of prizes, please click here.

Dave Battiato Dave Harris Michelle Sandal

Steve Billesbach Niki Henkel Cora Shaw

Rachel Blanscet Caprice Houdek Cullen Sila

Michelle Bloomquist Katie Humble Cindy Snethen

George Blythe Peggy Johnson Tom Sommers

Jamie Briggs Scott Johnson Deanna Stevens

Carol Bullard Keith Knobe Amy Stokebrand

Maxine Burroughs Carla Loemker Shirley Stream

James Bush Ashley Mentgen Gary Swanson

Melissa Carlson Janice Oden Joyce Swanson

Michelle Chenoweth Judy Oltman Dick Tegtmeier

Carol Cunningham Rhonda Paul Hans Tiemann

Verneal Dodge Terry Perkins Lynn Weaver

Ed Easley Tim Rayburn Andrea Weichel

Chris Easter Carolyn Reash Ken Wellensiek

Ron Embree Toni Reiman Ann Westphal

Ron Fleecs Catherine Renshaw Brandon Wollenburg

Angela Fortier Lucy Ruiz Sue Wymore

Faith Fowler Ann Runge

For a listing of more winners during Homestead Days, click on the Homestead Days Logo on the right hand side of this page!

THANK YOU to our Homestead Days Sponsors!!

Security First Bank First National Omaha Black Hills Energy

Windstream City of Beatrice
Beatrice State

Developmental Center

Gage County FoundatioN Koch Nitrogen Blue Valley Door Company

Pinnacle Bank WalMart Super Center Deines Pharmacy

Diode Communications

Bank of the West Mahloch Law Office
Exmark Mfg Co

Beatrice Community Hospital EyeCare Specialties
Gage County MAPS

Fox Funeral Home Good Samaritan Communities KUTT 99.5fm

H&H Distributing Valentino's Beatrice 1450 KWBE

Mainstreet Beatrice YMCA The Medicine Shoppe

Midwest Livestock Systems SENE/Aliant Credit Union

Neapco Beatrice Family Chiropractic Southeast Community College

Penner Insurance Casey's General Store Wachovia/Wells Fargo Advisors

Ron's Body Shop Lillian Fritch Insurance

Rotary Club of Beatrice Davidson Insurance Farmers Union - Chenoweth

Meyer & Associates Oakview Veterinary Clinic

Plaza Ridge Dental State Farm - Easley Wee Care Day Care

Beatrice Supermarket Blackburn Technologies House of Bottles

Schulz & Associates Jacot Chiropractic Professional Barber Stylists

Charter Communications Orange Bowl Pamida

Sack Lumber Tropical Tan

Crowd applause

THANK YOU and a Big Round of Applause

to all of our Volunteers!!

It takes the efforts of people from the entire community to make this event a success, and it was a very successful event!

Thank you so much for all of your time and efforts!!

Homestead Days Food Drive

Benefits: Blue Valley Community Action, Community Food Pantry,

Salvation Army and Wymore Food Pantry

Business to Business Challenge

Congratulations to Exmark for donating the most pounds of food.

Congratulations to Security First for donating the most pounds of food per employee.

Thank you to Beatrice Daily Sun and Pinnacle Bank for

participating in the business challenge!

Together you donated over 3,000 pounds of food for the county food pantries. Way to go!!!

Thank you to our businesses that served as Drop Points for the food drive:

Alco, Beatrice Greenhouse, Beatrice Supermarket, Heartland Gifts, Pamida,

Southwick Chiropractic, Speidell Monument, Sunmart and Wymore Express

Welcome Back to School Event

to welcome new teachers, returning teachers and all staff

at our area community schools

Friday August 14th at

Beatrice High School

Featured Speaker: Kevin Kush, Boys Town

All schools are invited to attend the morning session

New Teachers will be given a special Welcome Packet,

including Chamber resource materials and sponsor materials

Sponsorships are available now until July 20th

Click Here for sponsorship form and information

Business Before Hours & Business After Hours

will return in August

Stay tuned...

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$5, $10, or $20.
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call 223-2338.

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The Chamber serves an important role in the community providing information and services to members and nonmembers. We have successfully assisted businesses, groups and individuals for a really long time. Our Chamber's beginning dates back to 1880. Back in those days, we were called the Businessmen's Association. In 1898, the official name was changed to The Beatrice Commercial Club. It seems that in the early days of our organization, our forefathers had a tough time with names. In 1913, we were renamed The Beatrice Booster Club. In 1919, we became known as Beatrice Merchant's Association. Then finally in 1920, we found a name that really defined our role and it has stuck with us ever since… the Beatrice Chamber of Commerce.

During those early years, the Chamber of Commerce supported projects such as the streetlights and poles along South 6th Street during 1927, reductions in freight rates to Beatrice in 1928, a new water supply in 1930, the building of the municipal auditorium, and the creation of the Homestead National Monument Park. We were formally incorporated as a nonprofit corporation in 1948. Our Chamber really did a lot of things back in those old days. Quite honestly, we've stayed pretty busy ever since.

Beatrice Area Chamber of Commerce
Gage County Visitors Bureau
226 South 6th Street,

Beatrice, Nebraska 68310
(402) 223-2338.......... fax: (402) 223-2339

Time and Temperature Number
228-TEMP
(228-8367)