Lakewood Beautiful encourages residents to Spring into action!

Aswe round the corner of winter and begin to see the early bloom of spring take hold with blooming flowers and plant growth, it is a perfect time to recognize your house or a neighbor’s house.

The Lakewood Beautiful program honors Lakewood residents who take extra care to keep their homes and yards (and local neighborhoods) looking great.

Studies show that home upkeep and beautification by caring, committed residents keeps crime rates low and property values healthy, thereby benefiting the whole community.

You can help honor those

Lakewood residents who go “above and beyond” to keep their home and yards looking beautiful by submitting a nomination form by March 29, 2023.

There are four ways to honor your home or a neighbor’s home in the Lakewood Beautiful program:

• Beautiful Home Award. This is the city’s most traditional award, which has honored hundreds of Lakewood homes over three decades. This award rec-

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“We appreciate everyone for joining us today, but we need you as business owners to let us know what you’re dealing with, please do not hold back,” she said, encouraging business owners to take advantage of this opportunity to speak directly to the City and the Sheriff’s Station. Eventually, said Osborn, these Crime Prevention Meetings will be held at businesses. “We eventually want to take these meetings to you, out there in the community, this was just a first one, but it’s important for us to take these out into the business community.”

The City’s new Public

Safety Department started in 2018 to help city leaders form strong working relationships between the department and the community, maintain those strong relationships in a positive manner and connect community members with resources offered by the City and by the Sheriff’s Department.

Co-sponsored by the GLCC, Chair David Arellano, opened the meeting by giving a brief description of the Chamber of Commerce, its benefits and its services. “More importantly,” he said, “the Greater Lakewood

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New LCN Special Section to promote business community

Lakewood Community News readers this month will be surprised when they open their newspaper and find a new Quarterly Advertising Special Edition inside of their regular paper.

The Quarterly Advertising Special Edition is a new 8-page special advertising promotional section within the newspaper created by the Greater Lakewood Chamber of Commerce to put a spotlight on businesses in Lakewood and surrounding cities. Businesses in Lakewood were invited to advertise in this Special Edition by email in January and early February. This Special Edition was designed to sell only ½ page ads and 5x6 ads, which would be accompanied by an advertorial, or a feature story and photo(s), about the business. While written by a GLCC staff writer, every feature story is part of the advertising package for the Special Edition.

The Lakewood Community News is a publication of the GLCC and has often featured stories provided by the City of Lakewood. The LCN in February started also featuring stories about the GLCC, its members and about the local business community. With this new Quarterly Advertising Special Edition, the GLCC aims to highlight the business community it serves, along with giving readers a little glimpse into the business community and the people who own them.