JunqueFest starts Friday!

The Webster City Area Chamber of Commerce has been planning all year for the third annual JunqueFest to be held at Wilson Brewer Park May 27th through May 29th.  The park will be jam packed with over 80 merchants from all over the state and as far away as South Dakota, Nebraska and Illinois.  There…

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Rule Breaker Award

I’ve been nominated for the Rule Breaker Award!  That’s pretty exciting stuff. Just what is the Rule Breaker Award? It’s awards that are given to entrepreneurs who do things differently, who don’t exactly follow the rules as we know them.  The website says it best: We think entrepreneurs should be celebrated for the things they…

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Let’s Create Our Own Town

What kind of town do you want to live in?  I’m talking about a small town – what are your ideas that make a small town a great place to live in? I have an idea!   Let’s share articles and images from the internet on a Pinterest board for one month.  I’ve created a…

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Sunday Update: Friends

I spent the weekend in Grand Marais, Minnesota with a group of friends who like to walk.  They don’t care that I walk a little slower, they just slowed up their pace to match mine. They also didn’t mind it when I would say “turn around everyone, let me take your picture.”  They just turned…

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Two Boys Two Nights

My great nephews spent the weekend.  It rained all weekend.  It didn’t matter – we still had fun.  All it took was a plan, and patience. Friday night we went to the store around 9:30 when it was pretty empty.  They had to test the cars to see which ones were the fastest.  Saturday morning…

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5 Stories Session 8

This was a fun week!  Becky McCray and I share 5 stories relevant to small towns and discuss them on blab.  Here are the links along with my short commentaries.  You can also watch the blab video below. The state of South Carolina is using official road signs to help rural businesses thrive:  http://buff.ly/1qIOZF5  TODS Tourism Oriented Directional…

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Five Stories: Session Seven

Once a week Becky McCray and I of saveyour.town blab about 5 stories we’ve read online and I share links here. Normally I share the video too – however, there was a glitch with blab this week.  We are working to rectify it, but it’s not fixed yet!  Once it is, I’ll come back and…

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Sunday Update: Me

Spring, thank God.  March is here, in fact – tomorrow is the first day of spring.  Winter is hard for me and when spring arrives I feel like I can breath again. So the good news is the bright clothes can come out.  Yes, I know it’s 39 degrees out today.  Who cares?  Next week…

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Blab 5 Stories – Session 5

Blab Session 5 of SaveYour.Town of our Weekly 5 Stories happened tonight – we snuck it in early this week!  Next week might be early too – so keep your eyes posted on our Facebook page, we will announce it there.  I’m traveling next weekend and it looks like we will be blabbing on Saturday.…

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