University Place shops take part in Small Business Saturday [Video]

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – People across the country are flocking to local businesses for their holiday shopping. Here in Lincoln, the city has been celebrating Small Business Saturday for over a decade.

Earlier this week, Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird urged the community to show their support for the day by shopping at the locally-owned stores found around the city.

One of the best places to find deals in town was University Place, where a locally-owned shop is on nearly every corner.

That’s where you’ll find places like Copper and Wax Co., a candle store whose products are made by its owners in the back of the shop.

The two friends who started the shop during COVID are the ones who still run it, handling orders, customers, production and planning themselves, working to give customers a completely Nebraskan product.

“We source our beeswax from Nebraska,” said Mindy Horn, Copper and Wax …