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❄️ It’s a Wasena holiday tradition! See old friends and meet new ones at the 7th Annual Last Minute Market! We are bringing back all your favorite local food, craft, and art vendors and adding NEW ones to make this the biggest and best market yet!

🔥 We’ll have music, a roaring fire, and all the festive vibes you could ask for … so bundle up, bring some friends, and join us!!!

⛄️ We are proud to support our community and local businesses!

2025 VENDOR LIST

323 Millworks — Artful Artful Assembly Collage Group — Bees Wraps By Eva — Bella and Beau’s Biscuits — bloom — Copper Moon — DancinDee Leatherworks — Drifting Farm — Earth’s Essentials Apothecary — Emmie Barr Books — Fermented Fire Hot Sauce — FiberJoyZ — Fit to be Tied — HMBLE HSTLE Clothing — Jessie Majnich — Katherine Devine Studios — Kind Baking Company — La Lunatiques — Maddie Moon Resin — Mama Wolf Fiber Arts — Mountain Fog Jewelry — Mountain Mist Glassworks — Mountain View Candles — Old Souls Stained Glass — Peace and Harmony Farm — Pearl’s Pals — Roanoke Mountain Adventures — RenaVations — RND Coffee Lounge — Rooted Society — Sad Wilson Art — Sara’s Fairy Hair & Hair Feathers — Spice Titan — Sprouting Life Garden — Sun & Spruce — Tandem Arts Collective — Tangible Magic — Tellus Thread — The Flawed Log — The Salty Bee — The Slap Shop

The Wasena Neighborhood Forum (WNF) is excited to announce the 6th Annual Wasena Weekend on October 3rd-5th! Please join us in celebrating our neighborhood, supporting our businesses, and raising funds for future neighborhood projects!

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS!

Friday, October 3rd

• Friday Night Hangout (WNF Booth)
  • 5pm – 9pm at the corner of Main St. and Wasena Ave.
  • Learn about the weekend’s events, enter the raffle, purchase Wasena merch, and meet the members of the WNF board!
• Wasena Weekend Pub Crawl
  • 5pm – business close
  • Grab some friends and visit each of Wasena’s “watering holes” (bloom, The Green Goat, and Wasena City Tap Room) for a chance to win prizes, support our businesses, and have a good time!
  • See below for details on how to enter the prize drawing for the Pub Crawl Challenge!

Saturday, October 4th

• Art in the Park at the Wasena Park Stone Shelter
  • More details coming soon!
• Family Friendly Outdoor Movie
  • 6pm – 9pm on the lawn at The Green Goat
  • NOW SHOWING: Wild Robot
  • Free popcorn provided!
  • WNF Booth on The Green Goat patio
    • Enter the raffle, purchase Wasena merch, and meet the members of the WNF board!

Bonus event! The October Wasena Neighborhood Meeting will be held on Thursday, October 2nd at 6:30pm at the Wasena Park Brick Shelter.

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SPECIALS AND DISCOUNTS!

There will be specials and discounts offered by various Wasena businesses throughout the entire weekend! Stay tuned for more details on each of these events, raffles, specials, and more over the next few weeks!

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FUN, RAFFLES, AND PRIZES!

Wasena Weekend 50/50 Raffle (Friday and Saturday nights)

For a 50/50 raffle, you purchase as many raffle tickets as you’d like and at the end of the weekend, the winner walks away with HALF of the money raised. The other half will be donated to the Wasena Neighborhood Forum.

Here’s how to play!

1. Visit the WNF booth at either the Friday Night Hangout (Friday, October 3rd from 5-8pm at the corner of Main St/Wasena Ave) or the Family Friendly Movie Night (Saturday, October 4th from 6-9pm on the patio of The Green Goat) to purchase your raffle tickets! 
2. $1 = 1 ticket. Cash and card accepted!
3. The winner will be announced at 9pm on Saturday, October 4th. You do not need to be present to win! If not present, you will receive a phone call from a WNF member on Sunday, October 5th.

Wasena Weekend Pub Crawl (Friday night only)
We are excited to bring back the Wasena Pub Crawl Challenge! Grab some friends and visit each of Wasena’s “watering holes” on Friday evening to be entered into a special prize drawing!

Here’s how to play!

1. Starting at 5pm on Friday, make an adult beverage purchase at each of Wasena’s full service restaurants: The Wasena City Tap Room, The Green Goat, and bloom.
2. Keep your receipts.
3. Email us a picture of those receipts (all together if possible) at wasenaconnect@yahoo.com with “CRAWL” in the subject line. Please include your name and phone number as well.

FAQ:

1. Though we encourage the purchase of “Wasena Weekend Special” items that may result in proceeds to the WNF, they are not required to qualify.
2. An individual item purchase cannot serve “double duty” as a qualifying purchase in the “Wasena Weekend Patron Challenge” should you participate in both challenges. However, the same receipt with multiple items could be submitted to both challenges.
3. Multiple people can be represented on a single receipt and entered into the drawing on the same email, just include some remarks and contact info for each entrant.

Wasena Weekend Patron Challenge (all weekend)
One of the goals of Wasena Weekend is to encourage folks to visit and support our wonderful businesses. By participating in this challenge, you’ll be entered into a special prize drawing that could include gift cards, merchandise, and more!

Here’s how to play!

1. Starting any time on Friday, October 3rd and ending Sunday the 5th, make a purchase at any 4 different Wasena businesses.
2. Keep your receipts.
3. Email us a picture of those receipts (all together if possible)
   at wasenaconnect@yahoo.com with “WWPC” in the subject line. Please include your name and phone number as well.

FAQ:

1. Purchases can include food and beverage, retail items, services, and more! The combinations are almost limitless!
2. Though we encourage the purchase of “Wasena Weekend Special” items that may result in proceeds to the WNF, they are not required to qualify.
3. An individual item purchase cannot serve “double duty” as a qualifying purchase in the “Wasena Weekend Pub Crawl” should you participate in both challenges. However, the same receipt with multiple items could be submitted to both challenges.
4. Multiple people can be represented on a single receipt and entered into the drawing on the same email, just include some remarks and contact info for each entrant.

We are pleased to announce our 5th annual celebration of National Night Out on Tuesday, August 5th from 6 – 8 pm at The Green Goat.

This year we’re joining forces with the Raleigh Court Neighborhood Association and welcoming their neighbors to honor our local police officers, fire fighters, and first responders together! We will also be joined by Roanoke Public Libraries and who knows, maybe a council member or two will drop by.

And yes, we’ll have the free meatballs, tots, lemonade and live music by Wasena’s own Bob Casey! Families welcome!

See you there!