Junior Service Club holding Kidmania
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EDWARDSVILLE Kidmania is an outdoor, community wide “garage sale” that is held every year allowing shoppers to browse through multiple vendor’s items at one location.
Items this year will range from baby gear and clothing to kids apparel and maternity clothing. Proceeds from vendor booths and ticket sales go back to the community to help families and other organizations that help to make Edwardsville and Glen Carbon a better place to live.
Kidmania 2021 is from 8 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 24, at the Metro Community Church. The event is slated to have 60-plus vendors in attendance selling gently used baby and kids gear/clothing, maternity clothing and items for expectant parents, grandparents and more. This year’s event will be held outdoors for the first time in the parking lot of Metro Community Church, 3551 Ridge View Road, in Edwardsville. Goshen Coffee and Source Juicery will also be on sit
By Doug Jenkins - WBGZ Radio
The Great Rivers & Routes Tourism Bureau held it’s annual Tourism Summit virtually on Thursday. The event hilighted a so-called roadmap to recovery, pointing out expectations of a rebound once the pandemic is less of a concern with vaccinations now being rolled out.
Tourism Bureau President and CEO Cory Jobe tells The Big Z across the country, nearly 5 million jobs have been lost since March, thousands of small businesses have shuttered, and tourism revenue losses are in the billions.
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Presented with Hometown Awards during the event were: 222 Artisan Bakery, Edwardsville; Morrison’s Irish Pub, Alton; Old Herald Brewery & Distillery, Collinsville; Sammi’s Sandwiches, Alton; Goshen Coffee, Edwardsville; and Bluestem Vodka, Bethalto. Game Changer Awards to organizations and businesses who created unique ways to experience the region during COVID. Honored were: Pere Marquette State Park, Grafton; Collinsville Parks an
Riverbend tourism expects robust comeback
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This photo from April shows one of the owners of Morrison’s Irish Pub, at the corner of West Broadway and State Street in Alton, stocking an honor system food pantry in front of the restaurant and bar. The business was one of six recipients of Hometown Hero Awards presented Thursday during the Great Rivers & Routes’ virtual Tourism Summit. Show MoreShow Less
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ALTON The road to the Riverbend’s economic and tourism recovery will be paved with the survival of small businesses and the return of visitors seeking a safe road trip destination, according to the message delivered during the in the Great Rivers & Routes’ annual Tourism Summit on Thursday held virtually on YouTube.