06/12/2026
📣 Announcing our 2026 🌶️ Chamber Chili Cook-Off Theme …
It may be only be 🌞 Summer, but we’ve already had requests for this year’s theme. So, we are officially 📣 announcing that the 2026 Theme for the 🌶️ Pipestone Area Chamber Chili Cook-Off on Thursday, November 19th is …
🎄🎁🎅🏼🎬 Favorite Christmas Holiday Movies!!!
You are welcome to contact us to reserve your chili team’s theme at any time — as always, first to reserve & confirm their team, 🔒 locks in their Favorite Christmas Holiday Movie!
❇️On a related note:
The date of the 3rd Annual ✨ 🎄 Merry & Bright Night 🎄 ✨ Holiday Parade of Lights will be WEDNESDAY, December 2nd! It is our hope that participants in the 🌶️ Chamber Chili Cook-Off will have the option to incorporate some of their decorations, lights, and costumes for BOTH fun community events!!!❇️
Additionally, we believe that holding the parade on a Wednesday evening will be better than on a Friday evening (like the past two years) for two main reasons:
1. We hope to encourage greater participation, including by area churches with lighted nativity floats, choirs singing as carolers in the parade, and providing a fun activity for youth groups, clubs, or teams to use their creativity and collaboration skills to create fun floats and then ride/walk together in the parade!
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2. There are usually fewer (or no) athletics or other school events on Wednesday evenings as opposed to Friday evenings.
🗓️ Save Both Event Dates:
🌶️ Thursday, November 19, 2026 🌶️
✨ Wednesday, December 2, 2026 ✨
Now, back to 🎉Water Tower Festival!!! 😉