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Community Like I said it’s your community and the
money stays here and comes back to you. It doesn’t go someplace else to a different
place and convenience is not something you need to look for. You need to look at quality.
When people come in and see each other and start talking to each other and they’ve
just got this history of and especially when people come in and say I use to come in here
with my grandpa and they’re an adult now it’s like “Whoa that’s great, you know
that you’re still doing that.” That’s the importance of local business and what
a local business can do. You know people just feel a part of us and we hope that continues.
Being involved in these two businesses it’s not just about coming here working and going
home it’s really about making sure that everyone around us is succeeding and when
see businesses going out of business and store fronts are empty that affects us. So of course
we just really want to see the whole community thrive
People need a place to go, they need a safe haven, a place to eat and a place to meet,
a place to strategize, a place to calm down, a place to cry. So we’ve always served that
purpose as much as we can. If you focus only on the bottom line then
you don’t have a consciousness about the environment that you’re in, the community,
the way you treat people. You know, in the end it’s just not very meaningful.
There’s a loyalty and a camaraderie here that you don’t get in other things. People
stick around It’s the unique small businesses that make
your community different from any other community in the country. Rather than the sort of bland
landscape with the same stores, same chain stores that you go to.
You know, who lives in your community, who owns a business in your community, how can
you help those people get along in a way where you can kind of change the landscape around
you to create what we feel makes a better definition of home. Like how can we make that
identity our own instead of something that was shipped to us in a box?