David's BlogMonday, December 17, 2012Lifting Up One Business, One Family at a Time
A
recent article in our outstanding community newspaper, the Duluth News
Tribune, highlighted the twelve new stores, restaurants and bars that
recently opened in downtown Duluth. The article pointed out that these
new businesses provide us more reason to shop downtown and to buy local.
It is my privilege to know most of the men and women who own and
operate these new businesses. They believe in our beloved community.
This is why they were willing to invest their family's time and treasure
in their business and in the area.
What
you may not realize is how you, too, are connected to these business
owners and operators. They are your neighbors. Their children attend
your neighborhood schools. They support your favorite charities. They
pay taxes that help fund our city's police officers and fire
fighters. After the great flood this summer, they helped
rebuild our treasured hiking trails. They are a part of our community.
The
Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce helps to highlight these grand opening
celebrations to draw our community's attention to these new businesses.
We invite the public and our Chamber Ambassadors to join us at
these ribbon cuttings. We herald the opening of these member businesses
in our publications. We gladly do these things to help the women and
men that have placed it all on the line to get their business off to a
strong start.
At
these celebrations, I am often afforded the honor to meet the families
of these business owners. Family members, three and four generations
deep, often attend the festivities - excited toddlers, proud parents and
grandparents are all an integral part of each business. Again, these
are our neighbors. They contribute to our downtown in many beautiful and
necessary ways. These new businesses are supporting families and
growing our community.
Their success
is our success. So, let's support them in a way, and to an extent,
that illustrates to them that we are glad they chose our Zenith City on
the Hill to stake their claim. By doing so, we will lift up one business
and one family at a time.
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