MLBA Plans Quarterly Nite Out for members & LakeTown Landing businesses
If you are a Main Street Tax Credit Incentive Contributor, a MLBA Member, a LakeTown Landing business owner or interested in membership, you are invited to attend the Moses Lake Business Association’s Quarterly Nite Out.
Come and join us for networking, hors d’oeuvres and drinks on Tuesday, February 21st from 5:30 – 7:30 pm at MLBA’s conference room in Desert Plaza at Third & Alder in LakeTown Landing.
The featured speaker for the evening is Patrick Malone (MS/PCED) WSU Extension Service Community Vitality and Columbia Area Asset Building Team Member. Patrick is passionate about small business and their importance in our communities. He’ll be speaking about the benefits of working with other businesses, cross promotions and more – all on a shoestring budget. It’ll be a talk you won’t want to miss!
RSVP by February 13th for your chance to win a number of prizes from local businesses such as a full-page ad from The Columbia Basin Herald & Royal Register (valued at $3300), a full-page ad in VENUE Magazine (valued at $700) & 1000 business cards & graphic design from Michaelle Boetger Graphic Designs (valued at $125) and from KWIQ-Country 100.3 a 15-second radio spot inside a 60-second commercial which encourages listeners to shop locally in Moses Lake (value $125). You can register online at www.mlbacares.org.
MLBA’s goal is to improve the economic development of the Moses Lake business community through organization, promotion, design, and economic restructuring. We are here to support our downtown shopping district, LakeTown Landing. With gas prices on the rise let’s figure out how we can encourage our residents to Shop Moses Lake First!
The Moses Lake Business Association (MLBA) is a non-profit organization formed in 1993 by interested Moses Lake citizens. The purpose of the organization is to stimulate economic development in the Moses Lake business district called LakeTown Landing and to promote the area as an exciting place to live, shop, work and play. The MLBA also seeks to maintain a healthy business community and a high quality of life. MLBA is a member of the Washington State Downtown Revitalization Program. It is currently seeking to obtain Main Street Program status, which will benefit the organization by qualifying for state and national funding for programs and projects. The four components of this program are design, economic restructuring, promotion and organization.
To contact the Moses Lake Business Association you can call 509-764-1745 or visit their website at www.mlbacares.org. You can also become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/mlbacares or www.facebook.com/LakeTownLanding.
Moses Lake Business Association’s 17th Annual Holiday Lighted Agricultural Appreciation Parade & Street Party is scheduled for Friday, December 2nd
November 28, 2011 – Moses Lake, Washington. Moses Lake is proud of its location in the heartland of the Northwest’s most diversified agricultural region. The Moses Lake Agricultural Appreciation Parade pays tribute to Moses Lake’s agricultural heritage…past, present and future! Those that participate light up their farm equipment or float, saddle up the horses, and bring everything down to Third Avenue in LakeTown Landing. Along with the parade is a street party featuring many local organizations.
The event features entertainment in Sinkiuse Square from 5 – 7 pm including the Frontier Middle School Cheerleaders, Zumba Demonstration, Rock’n B Cloggers, and the MLHS Drill Team. There will be free hayrides, the Toys for Tots Toy drive is sponsored by Q Country 100.3 KWIQ and the US Marine Corps and KWIQ will be broadcasting live from 4 to 6 pm., photos with Santa, Free Kangaroo Bounce House on Ash Steet, the LakeTown Landing Scavenger Hunt, LakeTown Landing merchants will be open late for holiday shoppers, and of course the main event is the lighted parade.
Marianne Kirwan, Executive Director for the Moses Lake Business Association, says “We start planning for this event back in September. It’s a holiday tradition for Moses Lake and LakeTown Landing. The merchants look forward to the crowds and we’re able to put on an event where many groups, organizations and individuals can benefit. What started as an appreciation to our agriculture and cultural roots has turned into more and more holiday fun and an event for the whole family.”
The Moses Lake Business Association (MLBA) is a non-profit organization formed in 1993 by interested Moses Lake citizens. The purpose of the organization is to stimulate economic development in the Moses Lake business district called LakeTown Landing and to promote the area as an exciting place to live, shop, work and play. The MLBA also seeks to maintain a healthy business community and a high quality of life. MLBA is a member of the Washington State Downtown Revitalization Program. It is currently seeking to obtain Main Street Program status, which will benefit the organization by qualifying for state and national funding for programs and projects. The four components of this program are design, economic restructuring, promotion and organization.
To contact the Moses Lake Business Association you can call 509-764-1745 or visit their website at www.mlbacares.org. You can also become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/mlbacares or www.facebook.com/LakeTownLanding.
MLBA Plans Quarterly Nite Out for members & LakeTown Landing businesses.
If you are a Main Street Tax Credit Incentive Contributor, a MLBA Member, a LakeTown Landing business owner or interested in membership, you are invited to attend the Moses Lake Business Association’s Quarterly Nite Out.
Come and join us for networking, hors d’oeuvres and drinks on October 25th from 5:30 – 7:30 pm at MLBA’s conference room in Desert Plaza at Third & Alder in LakeTown Landing.
The featured speaker for the evening is Peggy Webster, her talk ‘Display & Designs for Bringing People in – use your store front & displays to keep ‘em coming back!’ will focus on window & store displays as well as the importance of customer service in your business.
Peggy will be doing a makeover for one lucky business owner, register by October 17th to be qualified to win. If you don’t have a window or entry way in your business you can nominate another business for the make over. Another winner will be drawn at the Nite Out event. The first makeover will be done the morning of October 25th and the second the morning of October 26th. Don’t pass up this opportunity!
MLBA’s goal is to improve the economic development of the Moses Lake business community through organization, promotion, design, and economic restructuring. We are here to support our downtown shopping district, LakeTown Landing. With gas prices on the rise let’s figure out how we can encourage our residents to Shop Moses Lake First!
RSVP by October 17th to be qualified to win a FREE window display makeover from Peggy Webster. Another winner will be drawn during the Nite Out event. RSVP online at www.mlbacares.org. ‘Click here’
The Moses Lake Business Association (MLBA) is a non-profit organization formed in 1993 by interested Moses Lake citizens. The purpose of the organization is to stimulate economic development in the Moses Lake business district called LakeTown Landing and to promote the area as an exciting place to live, shop, work and play. The MLBA also seeks to maintain a healthy business community and a high quality of life. MLBA is a member of the Washington State Downtown Revitalization Program. It is currently seeking to obtain Main Street Program status, which will benefit the organization by qualifying for state and national funding for programs and projects. The four components of this program are design, economic restructuring, promotion and organization.
To contact the Moses Lake Business Association you can call 509-764-1745 or visit their website at www.mlbacares.org. You can also become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/mlbacares or www.facebook.com/LakeTownLanding.
The Main Street Tax Incentive Program keeps your B&O tax dollars local.
September 12, 2011 – Moses Lake, Washington. Keeping our downtown thriving is a mission of the Moses Lake Business Association (MLBA) and keeping tax dollars local is one way of supporting this mission. Businesses can designate, through the state, to keep their B&O tax dollars right here in Moses Lake by requesting a tax credit be given to the Moses Lake Business Association.
MLBA gives businesses the opportunity to put their B&O tax dollars to work here in Moses Lake. These funds are then used to support the MLBA’s mission to improve the economic development of the Moses lake business community through organization, promotion, design and economic restructuring. In the past funds have been utilized for: banners hung in LakeTown Landing, kiosks, purchase and ongoing maintenance of flower pots, events in LakeTown Landing like the Annual Agricultural Parade, support of Spring Festival activities, Halloween Trick-or-Treating and so much more!
Many of Washington’s communities, like thousands of communities across the country, are using the National Main Street Center’s Main Street Approach™ effectively to address the complex and changing issues facing the downtown business environment. The Main Street Approach provides a flexible framework that puts the traditional assets of downtown, such as unique architecture and locally-owned businesses, to work as a catalyst for economic growth and community pride.
In 2006, MLBA worked with other revitalization programs across the state to introduce and help pass legislation creating a B&O Tax Credit Incentive Program for businesses investing in local downtown revitalization programs like ours.
If you make a contribution to MLBA before December 31, 2011: Your entire contribution may be deducted as advertising/promotion expense on your 2011 Federal Tax return. AND, 75% of your donation is returned to you via B&O tax credits in 2012. Read more
Basin BBQ Bash to bring in thousands to LakeTown Landing.
The Moses Lake Business Association (MLBA) is putting on a one-day event on Saturday, September 24th that is sure to bring in the crowds to LakeTown Landing, Moses Lake’s downtown shopping district. Third Avenue from Alder to Dogwood would be shut down to traffic and be filled with participants from the Pacific Northwest BBQ Association as well as a car show, commercial and food vendors, live entertainment all day in Sinkiuse Square as well as a Kid’s Zone.
Entertainment for the event includes the Lake City Blues band, Bill Ecret Entertainment, who will MC the event ,as well as Dime Store Prophets. Entertainment starts at 11am with the Lake City Blues band who will play until 1pm, and then again from 2pm until 4pm and continues throughout the day with Dime Store Prophets playing from 5-7pm.
This event is a family friendly event that will include a Kid’s Zone that will include Chalk on the Block, face painting, the Kangaroo Bounce House and a hands-on Science Booth brought to you by the Girl Scounts of Eastern & Northern Idaho. Read more
National Nite Out
National Night Out
TIME: 7 - 9 pm
LOCATION: LakeTown Landing’s Sinkiuse Square
National Night Out is a unique nationwide event which is designed to enhance awareness about crime prevention. Nationwide, more than 36 million people in 16,000 different communities will join forces to participate in this event.
Come help make this a special event this year. Enjoy the evening and send a message that the citizens of Moses Lake are concerned about crime prevention.
National Nite Out – America’s Nite Out Against Crime is August 2nd
The Moses Lake Police Department and the Moses Lake Business Association invite you to
Come on down to National Nite Out – America’s Nite Out Against Crime!
Tuesday, August 2nd from 7 – 9 pm
Live Music in LakeTown Landing’s Sinkiuse Square – Centennial Band
Free Hot Dogs
Free Ice Cream at Firefly Café
Free Fingerprinting for Kids
Free crime prevention and child safety information
National Night Out is a unique nationwide event which is designed to enhance awareness about crime prevention. Nationwide, more than 36 million people in 16,000 different communities will join forces to participate in this event.
Come help make this a special event this year. Enjoy the evening and send a message that the citizens of Moses Lake are concerned about crime prevention.
Spring is here and LakeTown Landing is ready for flowers!
May 16, 2011 – Moses Lake, Washington. Spring is here and Third Avenue in LakeTown Landing is gearing up for spring flowers. There are around 150 cement planters located in the downtown area that are filled with plants and flowers. The pots give life to downtown year round.
The Moses Lake Business Association makes a donation to the Horticulture students from the Moses Lake High School. According to Chad Utter, instructor, the program teaches plant growth and development, responsibility, pride in putting out a good product and business management. “We figure out which plants that they’ll put in the pots, and then we’ll generally order plugs, (started plants) in September. Due mainly to the fact that it is a semester long class and it doesn’t start until January. Then the students transplant, put together hanging baskets, maintain the greenhouse, as well as work in the greenhouse every day. Our goal is to have blooming plants throughout the season as well as ornamental grasses to finish out the arrangement in the pot.”
The Moses Lake High School has their plant sale in May that is open to the public. “After the plant sale we go downtown to prepare the pots for plant material, then we take the plants we have set aside for downtown and plant them.” “By having these pots in LakeTown Landing as part of a class project I believe the students take more ownership in the cleanliness of the downtown area and take pride in making the downtown area look it’s best,” said Utter.
Back in 2007 the Moses Lake Business Association purchased 68 cement planters and plants from Skaug’s Ace Hardware. Eight of the planters located on the corners of Third Avenue are slightly larger in size than the others. In 2008 70 planters were purchased to add to the existing planters.
The Moses Lake Business Association’s partnership with the Moses Lake High School’s FFA students began in the fall of 2008 in preparation of the 2009 planting season and the relationship has continued every since. The MLBA makes a donation to the group for their services. The students also plant the planter boxes at the ends of Ash, Beech and under Monte’s Mural at the post office as well as around the clock in Sinkiuse Square.
The Moses Lake Business Association pays a water master to water the plants all summer as well as fertilize and remove dead plant material from the planters. The MLBA has a Gator and a pressurized tank that is used primarily for this purpose.
Dustyn Mattes, Moses Lake Business Association President, said “I appreciate the hard work and the students involved really help make downtown look wonderful. Without this effort a project like this would be left up to individual businesses. MLBA is thankful the Horticulture Department chose to help us with this project, it really has brought an added beauty to our downtown.”
The Moses Lake Business Association (MLBA) is a non-profit organization formed in 1993 by interested Moses Lake citizens. The purpose of the organization is to stimulate economic development in the Moses Lake business district called LakeTown Landing and to promote the area as an exciting place to live, shop, work and play. The MLBA also seeks to maintain a healthy business community and a high quality of life. MLBA is a member of the Washington State Downtown Revitalization Program. It is currently seeking to obtain Main Street Program status, which will benefit the organization by qualifying for state and national funding for programs and projects. The four components of this program are design, economic restructuring, promotion and organization.
To contact the Moses Lake Business Association you can call 509-764-1745 or visit their website at www.mlbacares.org. You can also become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/mlbacares or www.facebook.com/LakeTownLanding.
Moses Lake cleanup began early
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
By Pam Robel – Herald staff writer Columbia Basin Herald
MOSES LAKE – The sun was just rising as volunteers spread through downtown Moses Lake to clean sidewalks Saturday morning.
The annual Moses Lake Citywide Clean Up began with a good hose-down thanks to volunteers, donated water trucks, and plenty of good intentions.
Marianne Bondi, of the Moses Lake Business Association, estimated about 40 volunteers turned out to help with the job.
“This is the ninth year we’ve done this,” Bondi said. “The Moses Lake Business Association started this to help get ready for summer.”
Bondi said the business association teamed up with Vision 2020 to make it a more comprehensive clean-up project.
Water trucks from Cenex Harvest States, Simplot, Wilbur-Ellis, Agrinomics, Baker Farms, and J & K Recycling weaved through downtown with volunteers trailing behind with hoses, towels, and garbage bags in hand.
“It’s a lot of fun (to do this),” volunteer David Plate, of Moses Lake, said. “It’s spring and we had such a rough winter.”
Plate said it was an opportunity to spend the morning with his kids doing something for the city.
“It makes downtown look nice,” Plate said.
Reid Baker, of Moses Lake, who provided trucks with water tanks as well as his time said he has volunteered with the sidewalk cleaning project for years.
“Our church called and asked if we wanted to participate,” Baker said.
Bondi said the only incentive for the volunteers was helping the community.
“We have the same people come every year to help beautify our downtown,” Bondi said.
Bondi noted that Shilo Inn Suites, of Moses Lake, donated towels for the clean-up at the last minute.
“We use them to keep water out of the businesses,” Bondi said.
Towels are stuffed against the bottoms of doors before the exterior sidewalks are hosed down in an effort to keep the doorways dry.
“We are always in need of more towels,” Bondi said.
More volunteers gathered at the Surf ‘n Slide Water Park in Moses Lake later in the morning to continue the cleanup effort.
For more information about the organization, call 509-764-1745.
Thank you to everyone who attended our first MLBA Nite Out event!
There were over 30 LakeTown Landing and Moses Lake business owners in attendance. We had fantastic food from the Chief Academy Café & Bakery, wine from Kyra Winery and Beaumont Cellers, entertainment by Zeb Rogerson and great discussions between local business owners and the MLBA Board of Directors. We discussed topics important to LakeTown Landing business owners as well as interested Moses Lake residents.
The MLBA is responsible for many projects and events in our downtown every year. Some of the well-known events include the Washing of the Sidewalks in LakeTown Landing, LakeTown Landing Trick or Treat, LakeTown Landing Street Tree Lighting and the Holiday Lighted Agricultural Parade and Street Party. A new event was announced. The MLBA will be hosting a Barbeque Competition in our downtown. It will be called the Basin BBQ Bash in LakeTown Landing and will be held on Third Avenue, September 24th. This event will include Tasting, Entertainment and Competition.
The MLBA has recently completed a project to install 10 informational kiosks throughout Moses Lake. We also care for the planters in LakeTown Landing, put up the yellow pole banners in the spring, and decorate LakeTown Landing for the holidays with pole banners, wreaths and tree lights. We are currently working on a wireless music system to provide a fantastic experience for the walking public.
The MLBA is also a medium for the public and the businesses in LakeTown Landing to have a collective voice. We listen and help with issues that are important to you.
The MLBA currently holds their General Meetings the first Thursday of each month at 8 am. It was suggested that we hold some evening meetings and possibly hold a couple of MLBA Nite Out events each year. The MLBA Board of Directors and Officers are having a Board Retreat this month and we will report back to you in the June newsletter about any changes in meeting times and events.
If you weren’t able to join us for the event, we hope you’ll put our monthly meetings on your agenda. You can sign up on our website to get emails from MLBA which include meeting reminders as well as when our monthly newsletter is posted to our website. We encourage you to download as well as print out our newsletter and pass it around. Our meetings as well as our newsletter are filled with information important to downtown as well as upcoming events.
Thanks for keeping tax dollars local!
