*Sunday 2/8/26, 2pm:  "Verona Behind the Scenes: Le Jordan." At the Verona Senior Center, 108 Paoli St, Verona, WI. (Note the 2pm start time)

 Festivals, grand openings, and Hometown Days: If you go to our biggest Verona events and look around, you'll usually find Le Jordan standing nearby with a clipboard or a giant pair of scissors.  Sometimes both!  As part of her role with the Chamber of Commerce, she's one of the people who make our great community-defining celebrations actually happen year after year.

To launch our "Verona Behind the Scenes" series, we'll be talking with Le Jordan to find out what it takes to make it all work.  Since joining the Chamber in 2015, she’s helped cut over 100 ribbons launching a variety of organizations.  We want to know what her favorite memories are and what she thinks keeps our most unique Verona businesses afloat.  What is it like to coordinate Hometown Days each year, which is arguably our most impactful community event?  Does she even sleep that week?  And how hard is it to “rent” reindeer for us to take our children's photos with every December?

Our “Verona Behind the Scenes” series aims to learn about the folks who help make Verona what it is.  The goal is to uncover their stories, better appreciate the work being done all around us to make our town special, and to record this all for future generations.