After a furious week of getting out the vote, The Dalles will now wait to see if it has paid off.
Voting to determine which of five hopeful towns will be featured on the “Small Business Revolution” program finished last night…and the winning community will be announced next week.
There will be a watch party in The Dalles next Tuesday at 5 p.m. at The Dalles Civic Auditorium to watch the video presentation to announce the winner.
Program co-host and Deluxe Corporation Chief Brand and Communications Officer Amanda Brinkman will step on the stage at the watch party of the winning town
Fredonia, New York had led every update issued on the program’s Facebook page, with The Dalles in second.
Main Street The Dalles led a massive voting push featuring its lovethedalles.com website and establishing a number of locations where people could vote multiple times per day on a number of different devices.
The “Small Business Revolution” program and Deluxe Corporation will invest $500,000 in the selected city to improve six small businesses over eight episodes during the fifth season of the program, which is distributed on Amazon Prime and Hulu.