The 2009 Taste of St. Mary’s will be held on Sunday, September 20 from Noon to 5 p.m. on the Town Square in Historic Leonardtown.  

The St. Mary’s Chamber of Commerce has just a few small sponsorships available for the dinning tent, face painting tent, and ticket booth so please show your support and sign up. The sponsorships range from $125 to $450 and will include mentioning of your business in the newsletter and signage on/near the tents and on the “Taste Map”.  

The Chamber also has one Corporate Event Sponsorship left if anyone is interested: included will be your companies colored Logo on all future promotional materials, mentioning in the newsletter and on the Chamber’s website, a corporate banner at the event, and your colored Logo on the “Taste Map” distributed at the event. All this for a mere $1000, please show your support and help give “A Taste of St. Mary’s” to everyone.   

The Chamber is also looking for the BEST restaurants and caterers in St. Mary’s County!

If you are a restaurant owner what are you waiting for?  This years Taste has been advertised all over the county and online since January of 2009.  Flyers were given out at all the hotels, at the 2009 Air Expo, in the visitor centers; there are advertisements on the St. Mary’s County Government website, on the Chamber’s website, in the newspapers and in the printed calendar of events for Leonardtown and St. Mary’s County. We have mailed out information to surrounding areas, given the information to other Maryland Chambers, sent flyers to all St. Mary’s County Schools for the students, and told anyone with ears about the Taste!  With all this pre-advertising and verbal commitments from hundreds of potential new customers in our area and from out of town, the Chamber is sure this event will be well attended and sure to please! The response has been overwhelming, visitors are planning, residents are waiting and all they need is you. 

The price to participate is only $300, and that includes your 10’x10’ serving tent and an 8’ table.  If you have your own tent and table you will receive a $50 deduction from your event registration immediately. 

You will NOT give away your product, customers will purchase food tickets at booths located around the event and you will accept these as payment for your product.   

At the end of the event each vendor’s tickets will be separately counted and cashed out.  Each ticket is worth $1.  Chamber members will also receive an additional $50 at the end of the event as a Thank You for participating!   

For Registration, Rules and Regulations email the Chamber at info@smcchamber.com. For anyone wishing to become an event sponsor, please email the Chamber or call the Chamber at (301) 737-3001 or Sherry Whittles at (240) 298-9907.