Registration is open for Main Street Washington’s next Quarantine Kitchen event.
Main Street Washington partners with Fareway, local chef Cory Evans and restaurateur Jaron Rosien to produce a live Zoom cooking class where participants can purchase a meal kit or the grocery list for those not local, and watch or cook alongside the program from the comfort of their home. Main Street Director Sarah Grunewaldt shares who films the class, “That would be me and one of my board members Maddie Widmer. She generally runs the chat in our Zoom so she answers questions or asks them if they come through on the chat function. That’s really the easiest way so we don’t get a lot of feedback is for people to type their questions in, and Cory and Jaron can answer them quickly and then I handle the camera for the most part.”
The annual Greater Washington Business Partnership Dinner is coming up, with different options for how to attend in light of the pandemic.
The event hosted by Washington Economic Development Group, Washington Chamber of Commerce, and Main Street Washington typically hosts around 300 people at the Riverside Casino and Golf Resort, but this year community members can choose from three different attendance options. Chamber Event Coordinator Alisha Davis says you can choose “watch party,” which involves dinner at a choice of five restaurants in the county, “grab and go gala,” where you can get your meal to-go from one of the local restaurants and the link to watch the program at home, or “sofa soiree,” in which you simply receive the link to watch the 30 minute program. Davis says registration for any of these options includes entry to a drawing for a Washington County Gift Basket, “So we’re kind of making it hybrid, in a year when we need to be cognizant of everything
A Main Street Washington event returns this winter for those who’d like some inspiration when it comes to meal preparation.
In partnership with the Washington Fareway, the non-profit organization is hosting Quarantine Kitchen on two Mondays, February 15th and March 22nd. Chef Cory Evans and local restaurateur Jaron Rosien will be cooking a meal live via Zoom for participants to follow along, or watch the recording afterwards to cook a gourmet meal from their home. Main Street Director Sarah Grunewaldt shares something new for this edition, “We actually are offering two ticket options this time. One was the meal kit, so it’s $35, you get dinner for two. It really makes more than a two serving meal, you’ll have leftovers or you can probably feed a family of four. Or we have a BYOG, which is bring your own groceries option, which is a little cheaper. It’s $15 and you get the link, the recipe, and the grocery list in advance. You can go to the store, get your ingredients and
Several local organizations that suffered revenue losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic received relief grants from the Washington County Riverboat Foundation this fall, including Main Street Washington.
The non-profit organization received $13,000, which Main Street Director Sarah Grunewaldt says will help offset losses caused by a lack of event programming, “And this year for businesses have been really tight, we felt really awkward about going out and asking them for money when they didn’t know if they were going to be able to keep their doors open. So we really cinched in our belt and kind of cut our budget as much as we could to kind of keep our costs as low as we could, so we could continue operations without being a burden on our businesses and then also to backfill from those event losses.”