Experience Rexburg boasts record turnout Saturday

REXBURG – Experience Rexburg has been a staple successful nan organization for much than a decade, and a monolithic turnout Saturday, estimated astatine astir 6,000 attendees, was encouraging to nan event’s organizers, sponsors, and vendors.

The yearly arena astatine Porter Park successful Rexburg invites Brigham Young University-Idaho students and area locals to get retired and get to cognize nan businesses and services disposable successful their organization successful a fun, celebratory atmosphere. The gathering is held each twelvemonth adjacent nan opening of BYU-Idaho’s autumn semester arsenic a measurement to invited backmost returning students, to orient caller students to nan community, and to show appreciation to nan locals who support Rexburg businesses each twelvemonth long. Food trucks statement nan thoroughfare adjacent to nan parkland while unrecorded euphony plays successful nan pavilion, beckoning folks to nan parkland for nan celebration.

Attendees could sojourn nan 124 vendor booths, filled pinch representatives from section businesses, wellness services, organization organizations, churches, and more.

JC Weber is nan proprietor of Circle of Love, a section bridal and formalwear boutique. Weber has participated successful nan arena each twelvemonth for astatine slightest 5 years and enjoys nan opportunity to link pinch nan community. His contented is to springiness distant hundreds of free ties astatine nan arena each year.

“It’s a awesome measurement for businesses to marketplace ourselves to nan BYU-Idaho students and it’s a awesome measurement to enactment connected to nan organization arsenic well,” Weber said.

Noting nan ample crowd size, Weber was enthusiastic astir nan boost nan influx of assemblage students gives to nan section economy.

“We cognize enrollment is up astatine BYU-Idaho, and this arena is showing really galore group are really here, which is awesome for nan organization and businesses successful nan area,” he said.

JC Weber is nan proprietor of Circle of Love, a bridal boutique successful Rexburg that gives distant free ties each twelvemonth astatine Experience Rexburg. | Emily Miller, EastIdahoNews.com

The gathering was a boost for caller businesses arsenic well. Whiffin’ It was incorporated earlier this twelvemonth successful Rexburg, arsenic portion of BYU-Idaho’s Integrated Business Core program, which gives students nan opportunity to commencement existent businesses and get immoderate hands-on experience. Whiffin’ It manufactures and sells ornamental car aerial fresheners, and was truthful successful arsenic an IBC business that 1 of nan squad members purchased nan business and nan leftover banal from nan assemblage truthful he could support it going aft nan 2024 outpouring semester ended.

Whiffin’ It squad personnel Madalyn Altman said she saw a bully operation of students and locals astatine nan event, and that their booth had “been engaged each day.”

Lynn Maciantoni is simply a BYU-Idaho student from Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is her 3rd twelvemonth astatine nan assemblage and she came to Experience Rexburg to walk a nosy day pinch her friends.

“It’s nosy to spot each nan different businesses and to spot each nan nosy nutrient spots,” she said. “It’s a bigger turnout than I was expecting. I haven’t seen thing this large for a while.”

Experience Rexburg is organized by nan Rexburg Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by BYU-Idaho and section businesses. BYU-Idaho Public Affairs Director Brett Crandall, who besides serves arsenic nan Chairman of nan Board for nan Chamber, says Experience Rexburg is an important arena to nan university, arsenic it is 1 measurement BYU-Idaho tin support Rexburg’s section businesses.

“We are ecstatic that truthful galore students and organization members came out,” Crandall says. “The occurrence of this arena shows that nan students are happy to support section businesses, and nan businesses want to service nan students and nan section community.”

Chamber of Commerce Chairman of nan Board Brett Crandall presents a prize to a raffle victor astatine Experience Rexburg. | Emily Miller, EastIdahoNews.com

Rexburg Chamber of Commerce Director Janalyn Holt was thrilled pinch nan turnout. Not only did attendees travel retired successful grounds numbers, but truthful did nan section businesses, pinch 30 much vendor booths than past year.

“That conscionable goes to show nan support of Rexburg and nan excitement of nan students. And our nutrient booths – look astatine nan lines!” she said, pointing to nan nutrient trucks that were kept engaged from unfastened to close. “The Chamber is doing astonishing things.”

For much accusation connected section businesses, Chamber membership, and early organization events, sojourn nan Chambers website here.

Experience Rexburg attendees were consenting to hold successful agelong lines to effort caller foods, including Mac Burger, which tops its burgers pinch fried mac and cheese. | Emily Miller, EastIdahoNews.com