Tickets now on sale for Top Executive Leadership & Business Awards Luncheon FILE Tickets are now on sale for the 2021 Top Executive Leadership and Business Awards Luncheon. (Source: Ryan Sjoberg) By KEYC Staff | May 12, 2021 at 4:52 PM CDT - Updated May 12 at 4:52 PM
The event, hosted by the Greater Mankato Area United Way and presented by United Prairie Bank, will be held in person, while adhering to state health guidelines, at the Mayo Clinic Health System Event Center on June 8. The luncheon is scheduled between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Company leaders are invited to attend the event, while a virtual streaming option will also be made available.
Bethany Lutheran College 5K goes virtual
Registration for the BLC Viking Virtual 5K is now open
Bethany Lutheran College 5K goes virtual By KEYC Staff | March 9, 2021 at 9:44 PM CST - Updated March 9 at 9:44 PM
MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) â Bethany Lutheran Collegeâs annual 5K is going virtual this year.
The Virtual Race Week is being held between April 5-11.
The race is usually held at the college campus
The 5K is a way for past, present and future Vikings to get some endorphins and competitive nature going.
The race will be completed on the runnersâ own time. Runners can submit their times to Bethanyâs website during race week.
Mankato Symphony teams up with local restaurant to offer date night experience
Mankato Symphony teams up with local restaurant to offer date night experience By Bernadette Heier | February 16, 2021 at 8:11 PM CST - Updated February 16 at 10:43 PM
MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) â The Mankato Symphony Orchestra and Pappageorgeâs Restaurant and Bar have teamed up to offer a unique date night experience.
The âSounds to Savorâ package offers a steak and wine dinner for two from the comfort of your home while watching the symphonyâs virtual concert. (Source: Facebook/Mankato Symphony Orchestra)
âVirtual events are fun, but if we could enhance it a little bit more to make it even more memorable, thatâs really what the symphony was doing when we connected with Papageorgeâs,â explained Jenn Faust, a Mankato Symphony Orchestra board member. âWe know they have an affinity to serving our community, they have an appreciation for the arts>
Deep Valley Book Festival hosts first spring book fair
Deep Valley Book Festival hosts first spring book fair By Marissa Voss | February 11, 2021 at 11:55 AM CST - Updated February 11 at 6:47 PM
MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) â After many successful years hosting their fall book festival, they are expanding to a Spring event
The âcabin feverâ virtual event will be held on the first weekend of March.
They will have planned discussions, panels, writing workshops and keynote speaker and Minnesota author Margi Preus, who will read her newest book The Littlest Voyageur to the virtual crowd.
âThe energy that comes out of the discussions, it is just so fun. I love writing, I love books, I am a writer, I am a reader. To be able to talk with people about this thing that is really fun to me and really important to me,â said Rachel Hanel, Deep Valley Book Festival planning committee member.
BECHS hosts virtual tour of historic Mankato locations
BECHS hosts virtual tour of historic Mankato locations By Bernadette Heier | February 10, 2021 at 7:06 PM CST - Updated February 10 at 7:28 PM
MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) The Blue Earth County Historical Society invites the public on a tour of local historical sites from the comfort of your couch.
Watch through Zoom to explore past and present photos and stories of the 12 nationally registered historic places in Mankato.
“We’re going to cover all the properties, a little bit about who lived there, requirements that it met to get on the national registers and just what it is now. Some are being used as private residences, some have turned into businesses,” BECHS Communications Manager Heather Harren explained.