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The Smithville Area Chamber of Commerce held its 98th annual Chamber Awards Banquet on May 15. Though we had planned to hold our banquet outside in front of the new building, Mother Nature had other plans and we quickly moved from our outdoor set up to indoors at the Recreation Center in just over one hour. Many thanks to Smithville Recreation Center Director Ashley Garrison for accommodating our last-minute change of venue! Once set up and ready to go, we kicked off with live music by the Musikatz, a local four-piece jazz band. Dinner was served by Catering by Chabot, a delicious combination of steak kabobs and chicken cordon bleu, appetizers by Olde World Bakery and dessert by Courtney’s Cakes. Many thanks to Brown Distributing for the beverage donation. Many thanks also to Doug’s Plumbing, our banquet title sponsor. The live auction, with Stuart Burns as auctioneer, was made possible by donations from LCRA, Bruce and Sallie Blalock, Mayor Joanna and Mike Morgan, Jeannie ....
The Smithville Chamber of Commerce congratulates the winners of the 2021 Smithville mayoral, City Council and school board elections. Thank you for your willingness to serve the community. As many of you may know, we just passed the two-year anniversary of the loss of our building to fire in 2019. The silver lining to all of this is our beautiful new building at the end of Main Street; official address: 106 NE First St. We have been so excited to watch the building take shape and we can’t wait to start moving in. We will be closing the chamber on May 19-21 to make the big move into the new building and assist with the completion of the museum. Many big “thank yous” go out to Murphy’s Vintage for their incredible work designing and installing the museum artifacts and to Dave Felker for managing the restoration of the artifacts. It has been an emotional journey and the entire chamber board and staff thanks: Jack Page, Robert Tamble, Bennie Rooks, Scott Saunders, Joanna ....
Join us for our final of Music in the Park outdoor concert this Thursday from 6-8 p.m. in the gazebo at the end of Main Street. The Jessica Shephard Band is the featured act. Art and Fun in the Park: The chamber, in partnership with the city of Smithville, is planning many activities around Smithville at our various parks. Join us for geocaching, frisbee golf, hoola-hooping, live music, live theater in the park, yoga, exercise classes and more! All classes are free thanks to a grant from the St. David’s Foundation. No need to register, just come out and have a great time. All ages are welcome. ....