Lake Anna Business Partnership Oversees Lake Anna Festival Expansion

Lake Anna, Va. - Lake Anna area businesses gathered for the third annual Lake Anna Festival, sponsored by the Lake Anna Business Partnership (LABP) on April 27 at New Bridge Landing where residents and visitors alike shopped and learned more about what Lake Anna has to offer. There was everything from t-shirts to real estate, paddleboards to wakeboards, decorative items to puppies at the festival including a 50% increase in exhibitor participation.
"We had nearly 50 exhibitors this year, filling a 30x50' tent with more on the grass bringing their own pop-up displays. It was a big increase and a great event. On behalf of LABP I would like to sincerely thank everyone that participated and that includes Chase Development that manages the New Bridge Landing shopping center," noted LABP board member and event chairman.
The event was free to LABP members and $50 to non-members and that fee could be applied to membership dues. Each attendee was handed a Lake Anna map showing where area businesses were located and the new Discover Lake Anna brochure designed and printed by LABP. After the festival, LABP, Lake Anna Life Magazine and The Boardwalk on Lake Anna sponsored a free Sunset Concert at The Boardwalk featuring the band Reunion.

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Lake Anna Annual Golf Tournament June 11

The 8th annual LABP Golf Tournament will be held June 11 at The Hollows Golf Club in Montpelier. This is one of the group's primary fundraisers for the year and a great opportunity to support a good cause and promote your business!. We hope you will be joining us to enjoy a day away from the office to mingle with like-minded business people. In the event you are not able to attend, sponsorships are still available. Sponsors will be noted on the LABP web page and in articles in The Central Virginian newspaper. In addition, there will be signs on the golf course for each hole and event that a business sponsors.

Sponsorship Options:
Hole Sponsorship - $150
Event Sponsorship - $150
Both - $250

This will be a Captain's Choice tournament that begins at 9 am. Fees are $75/player or $300/team and include golf cart, range balls and lunch. We also have opportunities to sponsor lunch and/or door prizes. Remember, your support helps make this event successful for the organization and for the members. Call Joel Kendall at 540.894.1941 or Lori Noland at 540.872.8042.

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Free Sunset Concert Announced For 

Lake Anna Festival

Lake Anna, Va. - The Lake Anna Business Partnership (LABP) has announced that a special Sunset Concert will culminate the Lake Anna Festival held April 27. The band Reunion will offer a free concert brought to you by Lake Anna Life Magazine, LABP and The Boardwalk On Lake Anna starting at 4 pm and ending at 8 pm.

  The goal of the day's festivities is to attract first time visitors to Lake Anna as well as introduce residents to Lake Anna businesses they might not have visited yet.

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Annual Vegas Night Raises $12K For LABP

Lake Anna, Va. - Lake Anna area businesses combined resources under the guidance of the Lake Anna Business Partnership (LABP) to hold an extraordinary fundraising event February 9 at Lake Anna Winery.

   The annual LABP Casino Night drew over 200 attendees and raised over $12,000 using a variety of fundraising activities. The Lake Anna “Casino” was popular with the main floor featuring black jack, roulette and craps tables. The newly opened Barrel VIP Room featured two Texas Hold ‘Em tables and black jack. Attendees “gambled” with VIVA Bucks and earned raffle tickets used for a grand prize drawing at the end of the evening.

  The Lake Anna Downs was the site of exciting Championship Horse Racing. Four heats of six horses competed and raised $1,800. The Laker’s Mad Dash was a tie between Lake Anna Life Magazine’s Setting The Pace and Joel Kendall’s Life Dash. Louisa Hardware’s TruValue won the Builder’s Blast. The Realtor’s/Restaurant Run was won by Weston Winery’s Wake Up Little Suzy. The Entrepreneur’s Encore was won by Heaven’s Way’s Blessed One.

    Also part of the evening was a silent auction offering many items and services from local businesses. From the looks of the generous donation list, it appears lake businesses agree personal reinvestment will help with promotion of tourism and business. 

   Items varied from the large and small; a Lake Anna Outfitters’ kayak to a Wake Edgers Wakeboard, Featherstone Forge and Wayne Simmons’ sculptures to restaurant gift certificates, Linda Salisbury books to a Lake Country Marine tube and many other generous donations. This united effort brought Lake Anna businesses together for one of the biggest nights of the year.

   Proceeds from the evening's various fundraising efforts will go directly to LABP promotional efforts like the printing and distribution of the beautiful Discover Lake Anna brochure in Virginia Welcome Centers and at the Lake Anna Information Center at Dickinson's Store, printing and distribution of the 2013 Member Directory in The Central Virginian, the Information Center and many locations around the lake as well as various other Lake Anna marketing efforts.

   “The Lake Anna Business Partnership would like to thank everyone who attended and supported this event with donations,” noted LABP President and Lake Anna Winery co-owner, Jeff Heidig, “As the lake’s leading marketing group, we hope this spirit of cooperation sets the tone for a great 2013 for our area businesses.”

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Lake Anna Business Partnership Announces 

Business Person of the Year

Lake Anna, Va. - The Lake Anna Business Partnership (LABP) announced that Dave Moberly of Dockside Realty was the recipient of it's Business Person of the Year Award at the January 15, After Hours Social held at Tim's Restaurant on Lake Anna. Moberly is the owner of Dockside Realty and a long time resident of Lake Anna and employee of Dockside. He marked 2012 with the purchase of the agency and opened two, new locations at New Bridge Landing/Food Lion Shopping Center and The Boardwalk at Lake Anna. He and his wife, Terri, oversee the business that has over a dozen realtors on staff, a vacation rental division and their famous Lake Anna 101 seminars for prospective buyers.
LABP 2011 Business Person of the Year W.A. Dickinson of Dickinson's Store and LABP President Jeff Heidig of Lake Anna Winery presented the award to Moberly during the After Hours Social.