When dollars are spent outside the county, local jobs are lost, incomes go down, property taxes go up, families are pressured to seek two incomes, stress is added, civic minded organizations and local business suffer and our towns become nothing more than bedroom communities. Imagine keeping $5 you already spend each week outside the county, local ! If all residents of the county spent that $5 each week locally, it would...

o Add $520,000 more is sales tax per year the county government coffers

o Lower property taxes

o Generate approximately 100, $25,000-$30,000 jobs in the county (cencus.gov)

o Build stronger local businesses making the area more resilient to recessionary pressures and easier for them to support fundraisers

o Employ 100 people that could work AND live in the same community or area with lower fuel bills, car maintenance and more time to invest in family & community organizations like the fire department, Food Cupboards, etc.

Now imagine $10/wk. Just double the figures above.

The local choices you make has more of an impact than you may have thought.  Shop locally whenever possible to make this a stronger community.  Thank you for shopping locally.