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2020 OFFICIAL VISITOR GUIDE INSIDE: 5 reasons why you should attend Hawkins Family Farm Wood-Fired Pizza Nights MUST STOP: DAM(N)!MAN! EXPLORE OHH MY! CAKES TRIATHLON WATERFALLS Delight your tastebuds with Read all about a new Plan a day of discovering fresh donuts, cupcakes, endurance race coming to the beauty of 7 waterfalls cookies, and more Wabash Co. in September www.visitwabashcounty.comlocated in Wabash |Co. 1 CONTENTS GROWTH STARTS FEATURE ARTICLES HERE HAWKINS FAMILY FARM EXPLORE WABASH CO. TEST YOUR LIMITS Grow Wabash County creates new economic and employment opportunities in Wabash County by leveraging new investments into our businesses, people, and communities. Since August of 2006, Grow Wabash County has: Supported morethan $440 million of private investment Supported creation of 1,532 net new jobs Supported creation of morethan $52 million of net new payroll Supported creation of over $1.5 million of net new local income taxes COMMUNITY & RELOCATION UNIQUE ON THE COVER Keith A. Gillenwater,President &CEO LODGING 214 South Wabash Street Wabash, IN 46992 260.563.5258 Visit www.growwabashcounty.com today “A 2014 Indiana Stellar Community,2015 America’s Best Community™ Quarterfinalist and 2016 Winner of Deluxe’sSmall Business Revolution” 2 | www.visitwabashcounty.com CONTENTS FEATURE ARTICLES HAWKINS FAMILY FARM EXPLORE WABASH CO. TEST YOUR LIMITS COMMUNITY & RELOCATION UNIQUE ON THE COVER LODGING www.visitwabashcounty.com | 3 WABASH COUNTY Growth Starts: Here. Let me be one of the first to welcome you to explore Wabash River connecting Wabash with the town of Lagro Wabash County, IN! Our community is proud to host you in 2020 are proof of our commitment to providing a livable whether you are here for the day or planning to make your community for our residents and a great opportunity for stay more permanent. We have all the charm of a small, our visitors to get out and see what we are all about. close-knit town while offering many of the amenities of a Wabash County is also a wonderful place to do larger city either within our community or within an easy business. From the smallest retail employers to our largest commute. In short – we are a growing community manufacturers, Wabash County is home to a full of opportunities and we at Grow Wabash diverse set of business and industry who provide County would love to help you discover them! numerous opportunities to our current and We have a lot to celebrate in Wabash County prospective new residents. From nationally known – in the last five years, we’ve been named one of products being made in Wabash County like every Indiana’s Stellar Communities, a quarterfinalist bottle of 5 Hour ENERGY® and Ford Meter Box in the America’s Best Communities™, winner products, to automotive parts, ethanol, and books of the inaugural Small Business Revolution bound for the Library of Congress, we know how to sponsored by Deluxe®, and ranked as one of the make things that people want – and we make them most affordable places to live (in Indiana, one better than anyone else. Over the last several years of the most affordable states to live in). We know we have aided in facilitating over $440,000,000 in that others are recognizing what our thousands new investments, 1,532 new jobs, and $52,000,000 of residents and annual visitors already know – in new payroll – but we know that we can and will Wabash County is an awesome place to be. In do more. just the last year, public and private investors in We are thrilled to have you visit Wabash County. our community have poured millions of dollars We are a community where opportunity abounds, into quality of life improvements, from housing and we would love to help you take advantage of to downtown investments, to ensure we have a Wabash it. If you are looking for a new opportunity and want to be County community that you want to visit and maybe even a part of our great Wabash County story, don’t hesitate to invest in just like us. In 2019, we welcomed several new visit our website at www.growwabashcounty.com. We look businesses including commercial and retail opportunities forward to meeting you! like the new Hampton by Hilton that will serve visitors and travelers alike when it opens in summer 2020, along with Keith A. Gillenwater several expansions in our advanced manufacturing sector. President & CEO The first houses of a new subdivision in North Manchester Grow Wabash County -Chester Heights- will be constructed, the opening of the growwabashcounty.com / 214 S. Wabash St. new Friendship Hill Inclusive Playground in late 2019 260.563.5258 / [email protected] and the addition of several miles of new trails along the 4 | www.visitwabashcounty.com CREATE AN nspATirMANCHESTERed vUNIVERSITYent! Manchester University is the ideal venue for your next business or social event. LetManchester be theinspiration for meetings and conferences, seminars and retreats, summer camps, banquets, weddings andreceptions. FACILITIESONLY AUNIVERSITY CAN OFFER •Flexible meeng spaces forgroupsupto500 •Athlecfacilies, gymnasiums and afitness center •Top-rate technology,videoconferencing and •Scenic open outdoor spaces teleconferencing •Inmate chapel, ideal forweddings •Auditoriums and performance venues forup •Extensiveonsitecatering opons to 1,125 people •Overnightaccommodaons Contact Manchester UniversityConferenceServicestobookyournextevent! Fort Wayne North Manchester 10627Diebold Rd. 604 E. College Avenue Fort Wayne, IN 46825 North Manchester, IN 46962 ManchesterUniversity Conference Services |877-624-8378|[email protected] |www.meetatmanchester.com www.visitwabashcounty.com | 5 V o l . 2 T h e r e c o g n i t i o n o f a c o m m u n i t y ' s a r t s a n d c u l t u r e a s s e t s i s a n 2020 i m p o r t a n t e l e m e n t o f e c o n o m i c d e v e l o p m e n t . C r e a t i v e l y a c k n o w l e d g i n g a n d m a r k e t i n g c o m m u n i t y a s s e t s c a n a t t r a c t a s t r o n g w o r k f o r c e a n d s u c c e s s f u l f i r m s , a s w e l l a s h e l p s u s t a i n a ANNUAL FESTIVALS p o s t i v e q u a l i t y o f l i f e . A r t s a n d c u l t u r a l a c t i v i t i e s c a n d r a w c r o w d s f r o m w i t h i n a n d a r o u n d t h e c o m m u n i t y . F u n A l l Y e a r T h r o u g h o u t W a b a s h C o u n t y ! FAME FESTIVAL BUNNY BASH KIDS FESTIVAL PEABODY TULIP FESTIVAL KUNKEL CRUISE IN CAR SHOW ROANN COVERED BRIDGE FEST FOUNDERS' DAY MARCH 21 APRIL 11 APRIL 25 August 14 & 15 September 10-13 September 19 A one-day festival with student A morning of free Easter-themed Celebrate beautiful acres of One of the largest 2-day car A four day festival that includes Join the fun with a parade art displays, performances, & activities including an Easter egg tulips with live music, horse & shows in the area. Over 400 free live entertainment, food and beginning at 10 am, sidewalk multicultural workshops. hunt in the hedge maze, Easter wagon rides, food, kid's vehicles on display. Judging craft vendors, a car shows, sales, family activities, food Bunny, and more! activities, and more. contest, door prizes, and more. motorcycle show, and parade. trucks, vendors, and more! ASHLAND DAYS LAGRO GOOD OLE DAYS FUNFEST BY THE RIVER HARVEST ARTS FESTIVAL AMERICAN HERITAGE CRAFT WABASH CANNONBALL CHILI SHOW COOK OFF June 12 & 13 June 18-20 July 23-25 October 3 Celebrate in downtown A three day festival of food, A four day festival of live Celebrate the Fall season with October 17 October 17 LaFontaine with food trucks, live music, and fun. Enjoy a parade, entertainment, vendors, one of live entertainment, vendors, hot This art and crafts show features Largest chili cook off east of the music, kid's activities, parade, car show, kid's activities, beer the area's largest car shows, apple dumplings, pumpkins, and decor, baskets, jewelry, and Mississippi River. $5 admission. and more! tent, and more! parade, and more. other activities! much more. WABASH COUNTY 4-H FAIR SUMMER MUSIC SERIES GARDEN FEST DOWNTOWN HOLIDAY NIGHT TO FESTIVAL OF TREES WINTER BASH REMEMBER JULY 10-18 June August 15 December 5 January 2 & 3, 2021 Livestock judging & Free entertainment at the More than 45 booths on November 20 & 21 Tour Timbercrest's manor that is Enjoy two days of FREE activities competitions, tractor pull, live Honeywell Center outdoor plaza gardening, recycling, and A two day extravaganza of decorated with nearly 100 at Honeywell Foundation music, auction, vendors, every Thursday evening in June. educating. Find unique artwork shopping, celebration, lighting of Christmas trees, visit santa & his properties.