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Bekah Kate's opened on May 7th, 2004, and is owned and managed by Rebekah and Mark Stelling. With the help of family and friends, they have lovingly restored a historic 1886 building at 117 3rd Street in Downtown Baraboo, just off of the square.
Rebekah earned a degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in Botany and Conservation Biology in May of 2000. She found work at Douglas China as a buyer for over 3 years. Bekah learned to appreciate good food and wonderful cooking from her Mother Gretchen and her beloved Grandma Annette. Bekah's love of the kitchen inspired her to open a store specializing in quality goods for the Kitchen and Home.
Mark earned a degree from the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater in Finance and has been working for Unity Health Insurance as an IT Analyst in Sauk City for the past 5 years.
The couple resides in Baraboo with sons Luke, George, and Will.
Bekah Kate's Philosophy:
As owners, my husband Mark and I, chose to locate not only our business, but our family, in Downtown Baraboo because of our love for the historic Downtown community. As a part of our business philosophy, we strive to enrich our community in any way we can.
Bekah Kate's actively participates in our downtown organizations such as DBI and BID. In these organizations, we are involved on many committees. We are helping to plan; marketing and image advertising for the downtown area, events, and the overall appearance of the downtown. We have done many improvements to our own building both inside and out to preserve its historical integrity.
We support and donate to local organizations that strengthen our community such as: school groups, senior citizen centers, the hospital and hospice centers, the historical society, humane society and the food pantry.
Bekah Kate's is trying to minimize our impact on the environment in any way that we can. We have become a certified "Green" business in 2008. We support and donate to organizations that promote the health of our planet such as, the Aldo Leopold Foundation, Nature Conservancy, and the International Crane Foundation. We recycle all glass, plastic and metals that we use in the store. We reuse packaging materials that we receive with products. All of the packing peanuts we receive are donated to our area shipping facilities for reuse. We recycle all cardboard and paper garbage items and have separate dumpsters for garbage and recycling materials.
We hold a bi-annual recycling sale to encourage our customers to bring in their used Bekah Kate's bags to be re-used. We offer our own reusable canvas bags for our customers and give them a discount incentive when they use it. We participate in Earth Day by helping in community clean-up projects with our staff.
In an effort to support like-minded businesses, we have tried to buy products from businesses that are pro-active in helping both humanity and the health of our environment.
We would like to thank all of our customers for helping to support your locally-owned Downtown Baraboo businesses.
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