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.

The networking breakfasts have been an astounding success!  We had 43 businesses attend the July Breakfast, and we are looking forward to growing that number!  For the next three months, the Networking Breakfast will be held at Logan's Place, 113 E Commerce Street, Mineola, Tx 75773 at 8 a.m. (Time change!) . The next breakfast is August 13.  

The Networking Breakfast is the second Tuesday of each month, so plan to be at all of them to promote your business!  

 We are happy to announce our May Fiesta Day Festival that will be on Saturday, May 4th from 10am to 6pm. This year will feature a mariachi band, singer Brianna Arteaga, piñatas, arts&craft vendors, food vendors, beer garden, Aztec dancers, children's activities, and more! You will NOT want to miss this! Attached is the flyer for the event. If you or someone you know is a food or arts&craft vendor please print out the form here and send it to 101 East Broad St. Mineola, TX 75773. May Days Vendor Application 2019 REVD 0220.docx & Mineola May Fiesta Eligibility and Rules 2019.docx.

Thank you to our sponsors! We could not hold festivals for the town without these wonderful people!  

Don't forget to sign up for our 2nd annual Membership Awards Party!  We will be having a lot of fun at Cowburners and it's FREE.  Plus, you never know, you may just win an award!  Go to the Chamber page and register today because it's coming up next week and you won't want to miss it.  

Due to the expected upcoming storms on Wednesday, the Mineola Chamber has decided to move the Trunk or Treat up a day on Tuesday, October 30th at 5:30pm for participating downtown merchants and all of Commerce/Johnson Streets. We apologize for any inconveniences but feel this decision was best for the safety of the children and the enjoyment of the event. 

Booth set up and road blocks may begin after 4pm.

This years Iron Horse Festival will be filled with fun events you can get involved in! Just click on the link to fill it out or print it out and send it in with your payment and we will get you signed up!

Weenie Dog Race - Weenie Dog Race Form 2018.docx

Pie Baking Contest-  Chamber Pie Baking Contest.docx

Watermelon Eating Contest- Watermelon Eating Contest 2018.docx

Bean Cook off- IRONHORSE BEAN COOKOFF.docx

Vendor Application- Iron Horse Fesival Vendor Application 2018.docx

The Mineola Chamber of Commerce are preparing for the Mineola Iron Horse Heritage Festival on Saturday, September 29^th 2018, in historic downtown Mineola.  We are interested in having an event that is unique and “one of a kind”. Our Iron Horse Heritage Festival is important to our community because it is exactly like the name entail’s, our heritage! The train is such a staple in our community and has made Mineola into what it is today.

This year’s event includes wonderful food vendors and many different types of arts & craft vendors, a children’s area, weenie dog race, and more.  If you are a vendor interested in signing up please use the information here > Iron Horse Fesival Vendor Application 2018.docx  to sign up. You may also call 903-569-2087 to get an application delivered to you by mail. Payment needs to be in cash or check before vendor location can be determined.  In order to keep the event unique, we will be taking the applications on a first come basis and will discourage duplicate vendors.  Vendors will need to be in their space and ready to sell by 9:00am on Saturday, September 29^th. No booth breakdown before 6:00pm on Saturday.

We are so excited for this years event and can't wait for you to come out and celebrate with us in September!