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Main Street director reports strong event turnout, social-media growth and fall plans including mule rides and Taste of Winnsboro
Summary
Main Street Director Carolyn Stout told the Winnsboro Main Street Advisory Board that August brought a television appearance, a movie screening and a "Big Wheel Bash" with roughly 750–800 attendees; she also reported large social-media growth, ordered fall decorations and outlined mule rides for cowboy weekend and the Taste of Winnsboro on Oct. 4.
Carolyn Stout, director of Winnsboro Main Street, told the advisory board that August was a busy month for the organization, highlighting a television appearance on KETK, a movie screening with 102 attendees and a large "Big Wheel Bash" that she estimated attracted about 750 people and "with the margin of error, we could have easily had 800 people at that event."
Stout said the event included an economic-vitality component: 26 merchants participated in a downtown scavenger-style activity tied to the event and several children completed the full merchant route; the organization plans to award small prizes to those who completed it. "We really kind of embedded some economic vitality attempt in the 20…
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