2019 Christmas Parade

The Mineola Chamber of Commerce is happy to announce our 2019 Christmas Parade date of Saturday, December 7th at 5:30pm in downtown Mineola! This years theme is "A Charles Dickens Christmas". If you would like to enter a float, horse, walkers, or anything else please contact the Chamber at 903-569-2087 or fill out the application and send it in. We hope you can join us on the 7th! Here is the application- Christmas Parade Entry 2019.docx

Link for the parade entry form- Veteran's Day Parade Form 2019.pdf

The Mineola Marine Corps League/VFW/American Legion will host the 2019 Veteran's Day Parade in Downtown Mineola on Saturday, September 9th, 2019 at 11:11am. This years theme is "Thank You for our Freedom"
Awards will be presented for 1st Place Float Entry, 1st Place Walking Entry, and 1st Place Band Entry.
For more information please contact Larry Pruitt at 903-569-0348 or Pat Lambert at 903-569-6481

A huge thank you to our amazing sponsors for the Iron Horse Festival!  Thank you to our headline sponsor, Wood County Industrial Commission for sponsoring the Iron Horse Festival this Saturday!

Thank you also to  CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances, The City of Mineola, Texas, Mineola Community Bank, and Watkins Insurance Group for Sponsoring the Iron Horse Heritage Festival as our Live Entertainment Sponsors. We could not do these festivals without our wonderful sponsors!

Thank you to Wood County Electric Cooperative and Trinidad Benham for sponsoring our Western Show at the Iron Horse Heritage Festival this Saturday!

Thank you to Texas Farm Bureau for sponsoring the Weenie Dog Race, Savelli Properties for sponsoring the Watermelon Eating Contest, and Lake Country Animal Clinic for sponsoring the children's activities for the Iron Horse Festival this weekend!

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The files below are the sign up forms for the contest we will have at the Iron Horse Heritage Festival on Saturday, September 28th. Please fill them out and email them to chamber@mineola.com or send them in to 101 East Broad Street Mineola, TX 75773. 

Weenie Dog Race- Weenie Dog Race Form 2019.docx

Pie Baking Contest - Chamber Pie Baking Contest.docx

Jelly & Jam Contest - 2019 Jelly and Jam Contest.pdf

Watermelon Eating Contest - Watermelon Eating Contest 2019.docx

The Chamber had a whopping 52 people at the Mineola Chamber Networking Breakfast this past month.  We are growing!  This month, we are going to try to cap it at 50 so that we have time to hear everyone's commercial.  Bring your business cards, flyers, and other promotional materials.  If you are a member, come early and put info in the bag that we will pass out to everyone.  If you want to really have fun, bring a door prize!  We will try to have a microphone in September so that everyone can hear you give your commercial.  For a great ROI, listen carefully to the commercials and refer business to each other.  Even better, find a business with the same target market as you have but that is a non-competing business.  Connect with them and refer business to each other!  This is a great way to network and have people know you and what you do.  Everyone has a blast at this Breakfast!   Sign up for the September breakfast here:  https://mineolachamber.org/event-3531688

This year the Iron Horse Festival will be held on Friday, September 27th and Saturday, September 28th.  Friday will be a kick off night with the Landmark Commission doing a Hobo Stew fundraiser dinner. Saturday we will have a fun filled day with the Creature Teacher, live music, pie baking contest, canning contest, Dance Dimensions, weenie dog race, food and arts & craft vendors, East Texas Twisters, watermelon eating contest, western show, hamster wheel snow cone maker, and more! Attached here is the Iron Horse Fesival Vendor Application 2019.docx and Iron Horse Festival Eligibility and Rules 2019.docx. If you are a vendor or know someone who is please let them know about our festival! Just fill out the application and email it to chamber@mineola.com or mail it with your payment to 101 East Broad St. Mineola, TX, 75773. We are also accepting sponsorship's for our festival here is the sponsorship application Iron Horse Sponsorship Levels Updated(002).docx. Sponsorship's are always needed to host a fun and entertaining festival for our community. Thank you always for your donation! 

Thank you Mercy Rushing, Doris Newman, and Cindy Karch for giving us all the great information about Mineola.  We received graphs and charts from Cindy, showing us how successful Mineola has become.  Doris told us about all the great benefits we have by being a Mainstreet Town, and Mercy gave us encouragement to weather the changes that Mineola is seeing - they're all good!  

A great big Thank You to Cowburners for he delicious food and for stepping up to the plate (get the pun?) when more people showed up than signed up.  We had a full house!

There have been some changes to the networking breakfast for August.  First of all, for August, September, and October, the breakfast will be at Logan's Place at 113 East Commerce Street in Mineola, by the Beckham Hotel. 

Secondly, we are starting earlier so more people can participate - it is now at 8:00 a.m. 

Another change is we are still charging members $6 for breakfast, drinks, and gratuity, but will now be charging non-members $10.  Also, only members are allowed to be the Spotlight Speaker.  Members have to have SOME perks, right?!  

What HASN'T changed is we will have amazing food, great networking opportunities, and loads of fun!  Oh, and don't forget....it's the 2nd Tuesday of EVERY month.  See you there!  

The Chamber has beautiful office space for lease .  Could there be anything better than renting the space above the Chamber for your illustrious offices? You can use all the space or sublease to others. 4 offices, 2 reception areas, 4 closets, and a bathroom. $1,000/month plus utilities.