What Pewaukee has to Offer!!

Last week we hosted a Red Hat Shopping Day for the Red Hat Society ladies from all over Waukesha County. Our merchants gave us items for their gifts bags and offered them specials for the day. We had 23 participating merchants and we asked the ladies to try to stop into as many of the merchants as they could.

We would have been happy if they would have stopped in to a dozen or so, but they all stopped into everyone on our list! We were thrilled that they did that and also very happy at the positive response that we got from the ladies.

The biggest response we got from them was "there are more places to shop here than I thought" and "there are so many nice business owners in Pewaukee". Kim and I were so happy to hear that a new group of people understand what we do, that Pewaukee is a great place to shop, dine and to do business.

For the past few months we have been working with the merchants on news ways to market them. You are going to be hearing more about The Village Shoppes of Pewaukee Lake and hope that you will look at the link on our site for a complete list of all the businesses.

In this time of economic hardships it is more important than ever to be careful with your money, but keeping it local is always an important thing to do. Support the businesses that are here, show them that you want them to stay and grow!

How can I get involved in Positively Pewaukee?

That is one question I hear a lot! The answer is our annual Friend Raiser on Monday, May 5th at Beef O'Brady's at 1230 Georgetown Rd starting at 6:00 pm.

What is a Friend Raiser? It is the evening where we invite our friends that have volunteered for us before to bring in their friends that have an interest in our organization and would like to find out more about us. It is also the evening where the full summer schedule of events is unveiled and people can sign up for the volunteer jobs they love!

If you are interested in finding out how you can get involved please join us on the 5th.

Contact Kim or myself to register and we will give you the full detail. You can reach us at 262-695-9735 or email elaine@positivelypewaukee.com.

If you are looking for a way to meet new people while helping out in your community this is it!
Hope to see you there.

Updates to our Website

We have been very busy the past few days making our website a friendlier, more useful site. We have added new pages, condensed some of the old pages and updated the others to make it easier for you to find out what you need to know about Pewaukee.

Some of the new additions are - Property Listings provided by Choose Milwaukee - On this site you will be able to see the business properties that are available in Pewaukee for lease or for purchase. The great thing about this site is not only in most cases is there a photo of the property, but you can pull up demographics on the area and see what other businesses are near by.

Partners - This page will give you information on how you can become one of our important partners. It has links to all the businesses that are already our partners through sponsorships of our events. These businesses are very important to us and we hope you will visit this page and their websites!

One of the pages we updated is our Links page where you will be able to go our community partner’s websites as well as many government links. The About Us page is a combination of other pages previously on our website, put into one easy to view page.

Our Get Involved page has information on how you can support us through volunteerism, and the To Do page has information on all our year round events. Be sure to check out our newest event, Motor Madness on Sunday, May 18th!

Don’t forget to come back often to view our Community Calendar on our homepage where we list all the events and promotions going on in Pewaukee from other community organizations and our local businesses.

We hope you find our website useful and a good community resource. If you have any ideas on additional information you would like to see on the site please email me at Elaine@positivelypewaukee.com

Many thanks to our webmaster Lori Callen for all her hard work and volunteer time!

Will Summer ever get here!

That is what everyone has been saying lately. Here is another event to get you in the summer mood.

We are partnering with the Pewaukee Park and Rec Department on a new event called
Motor Madness.
Sunday, May 18th Rain or Shine
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Pewaukee Village Park
$5.00 for adults
$3.00 for children
Children 2 and under free

This amazing day of classic cars, trucks, engines and construction equipment is sure to delight the kid in everyone. On display will be dozens of vehicles of all kinds from the past, present and future – learn about, peek under the hood and crawl into motor madness! Don’t forget your camera.

North Shore Bank Taste of Lake Country Entertainment Schedule

Summer is getting closer by the day, and we have completed scheduling the entertainment for the North Shore Bank Taste of Lake Country (July 25th and 26th). We are excited to announce that we will be opening an hour earlier on Saturday in order to showcase our newest entertainment ... Radio Disney!

Below is the complete list of the entertainment for the event:

Friday – July 25th
Stray Voltage – Cover Band -5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Hot Sauce – Dance Band - 7:45pm -10:30 pm
Wauwatosa Savings Bank -Bartolotta Fireworks - 10:30 pm

Saturday, July 26th
New this year! Radio Disney 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Truly Remarkable Loon - 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm - Comedy Juggler
Kids Craft Area - 3:00 - 6:00 pm
The Orphans – Cover Band - 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
U2 Zoo – U2 Tribute Band -7:15 pm - 10:30 pm
Wauwatosa Savings Bank -Bartolotta Fireworks - 10:30 pm

Mark your calendars, you don't want to miss a minute of the fun!

Many thanks to our title sponsor North Shore Bank, please visit them at http://www.northshorebank.com/.

Community Connections

A big part of revitalizing a downtown is connecting with other community groups. One group that is doing wonderful things for Pewaukee is the Pewaukee Interchurch Lay Council who are in charge of the Pewaukee Food Pantry.

The Pewaukee Food Pantry helps over 100 families a month to suppliment their food and toiletry supplies. The pantry is critially low on food and money and your help is greatly needed.
The pantry is located at Gethsemane Church - 642 Main Street in Pewaukee. You may drop off donations Wednesday and Saturday's between 10 - 11 am or call 691-3240 to set up a drop off time. If you would like to mail a check, please do so to the address above and make the check out to the Interchurch Lay Council.

Some of the most needed items are:
Canned or boxed meals
Spaghetti sauce
Peanut butter
Jelly
Bath tissue
Laundry detergent

The pantry severs people all year long, not just during the holidays, please keep them in mind throughout the year! Thank you so much for your support.

Something to warm you up!

Today is January 30th and the temperature is way below zero, so here is some news that should help you warm up! We have all the bands booked for this years season of Waterfront Wednesdays. The lineup is as follow:

6/4 - Kojo -Reggae - Sponsored by Seester's Mexican Cantina
6/11 - Civic Broadway Singers -Broadway Favorites - Sponsored by Harken, Inc
6/18- Cream City Jazz -Jazz - Wauwatosa Savings Bank
6/25 - The Dirty Boggie Band- Rock - Sponsored by North Shore Bank
7/2 -Kerry McConaway and the Elements -Country - Wal-Mart
7/9 -Crazy Man's Basement -Rock - Sponsored by American Family Insurance - Chris Lueth Agency
7/16 -The Cowboy Brothers -Classic Rock - Sponsored by Marine Bank
7/23 - The Danny Miller Band -Blues -Sponsored by Pier 347
7/30 - Blarney - Irish - Sponsored by Beef O'Brady's
8/6 -Pike Creek - Bluegrass - Sponsored by -Design X Change
8/13 -Alter Ego- Rock - Sponsored by Good Electric
8/20-Steppin' Out -Americana Rock - Sponsored by Lake Country Salon
8/27 - Pink Flamingoes - 4 Decades of Rock - Sponsored by Chase Bank

We have lots of special things planned for this season, stay tuned and we will update you during the next few months.

Many thanks to our title sponsor for this year Siepmann Realty and the Shoppes of Old Main Street!
Have a great week!
Elaine