Thursday, February 9, 2012
"Places" is a comprehensive, online directory listing tool that Eureka-Wildwood Patch offers to business owners and managers. Claiming your existing listing to use is free and simple. Patch readers can even rate and comment on each entity.
Businesses leaders have a revenue-generating tool at their fingertips in a specific portion of Eureka-Wildwood Patch, under the site's tab called Places. Before we launched the editorial side of Eureka-Wildwood Patch on Nov. 3, 2010, we built the most comprehensive online directory available in our area, complete with instant mapping location features. Our Patch directory contains photos of your establishment, specialities and offerings, location details, hours of operation, and other essential factors, such as type of payment accepted and contact details. Patch readers also have a wonderful way to provide feedback and to rate local businesses, nonprofits, schools and organizations in the same spot of the website. Have you checked to see …
Friday, January 27, 2012
Local residents seeking to stay fit during financially strapped times can inquire about Wildwood Family YMCA membership relief made possible by organizations, such as the Wildwood Business Association.
Wildwood Business Association representatives presented a check for $1,300 to the Wildwood YMCA on Wednesday. The check represented proceeds from this winter's Hot Air Balloon Glow event held in Wildwood Town Center. It was the third annual balloon glow hosted by Wildwood Business Association members. This year, Wildwood city representatives assisted with funding and supporting the event. Organizers estimate several thousand attendees came out Dec. 2, which helped to raise money to support a generous, local program administered by the Wildwood Y. For a small donation, participants could get their picture taken with Santa, and children decorated an ornament for an erected community tree. Music was provided by Living Word United Methodist …
Friday, November 25, 2011
A movement to shop local for the holidays becomes Small Business Saturday on Nov. 26. Wines of Wildwood is a prime example of how to keep the dollars local.
A new day has been added to the holiday calendar, but keep reading! It’s a good one. A year ago, as the U.S. economy was beginning its upturn, small business owners were looking for a way to attract customers, and according to American Express, a supporter of the new holiday, 93 percent of consumers like to support local businesses. Thus was born Small Business Saturday. “Small businesses are really the lifeblood of the economy,” said Mary Ann Fitzmaurice Reilly, senior vice president, customer marketing for American Express. Black Friday, the holiday shopping kickoff was first. Then the Monday following Thanksgiving became Cyber Monday. Now Small Business Saturday encourages shoppers to hit the sidewalks and support locally owned stores …
Sunday, April 17, 2011
This month, WBA members were busy sharing details about events and opportunities focused on economic development and community support.
Wildwood Business Association members and its officers, per the organization's website, has the following goals: WBA members initiated Wildwood's popular Balloon Glow event held annually in December.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Mayor Tim Woerther attended the Wildwood Business Association meeting Thursday night to share details about a house bill that would reverse St. Louis County's tax sharing system. Wildwood would lose millions of dollars each year.
Loss of St. Louis County's current pool sales tax system if House Bill 534 (HB 534) were adopted would lead to financial devastation to municipalities such as Wildwood, Mayor Tim Woerther told Wildwood Business Association members Thursday evening at their monthly membership meeting. Woerther said every spring since the tax sharing, or pool tax, system was put in place in 1993, it seems that some group of legislators tries to repeal that sales tax structure. It provides for a one-cent sales tax to be redistributed among St. Louis County municipalities regardless of where sales occur. The redistribution is based on a city's population, he said. "Many St. Louis municipalities now depend on the tax funding as city revenue, and Wildwood itself…
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
MoDOT plans to close a section of Route 109 south of Westridge Oaks for up to month. A March 8 public meeting about resulting impacts will be held at LaSalle Springs Middle School in Wildwood from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Business owners are worried.
An open-house style public meeting will be held today from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at LaSalle Springs Middle School in Wildwood by Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) officials to provide a forum for sharing details about a proposed major repair to a section of Missouri Route 109. Because no formal presentations are planned during the public meeting, participants may attend at any time during the three hours designated. Up until yesterday, the MoDOT team planned to close the highway this summer between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Ironically and coincidentally, Monday's development of large cracks in the targeted section of the highway forced officials to divert traffic, place barriers around the sliding pavement and repaint temporary …
Monday, February 14, 2011
With the news Friday that the organizer of the region's largest annual barbecue contest will move the event from Wildwood, what impact will the loss of the Bash have on local businesses?
This weekend's news about the region's largest barbecue competition, St. Louis Home Fires Barbecue Bash, now not being hosted in Wildwood for its intended third year rippled throughout the local business community. Many owners and managers express that they see events, such as the Bash, as vital to increasing Wildwood business. Some even immediately spoke about how unfortunate it will be to not have guests filling and experiencing the pleasantries of the Wildwood Town Center Hotel the weekend of the Bash. Holly Ferris, membership director for the Wildwood Business Association and Wildwood resident, spoke on behalf the members of the Association: "We are disappointed with the outcome of the debate between a few city council members and …
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Despite colder than expected winds, hundreds of attendees turned out for the second annual Holiday Hot Air Balloon Glow in Wildwood on Friday. Patch Eureka-Wildwood was happy to be one of the Wildwood Business Association sponsors of the event.
Although swift winds prevented hot air balloons from being inflated at the Holiday Balloon Glow Friday evening in Wildwood, the overall festive spirit still soared from the large crowd. Sponsored by Wildwood Business Association members, the second annual event attracted hundreds of people and dogs of all ages. Attendees could take a photo from the basket of a balloon, aglow from the operators firing up the burners. Or, visitors could pose for a photo with Santa Claus for a $5 donation, with proceeds benefiting the Wildwood Family YMCA's Strong Family Campaign. The Strong Family program assists with membership costs, physical therapy, financial seminars, interview seminars, kids with special needs, and summer camps for families with …
Julie Brown Patton
4:05 pm on Thursday, February 9, 2012
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