It’s true. Volume One just turned 20 years old. We can’t believe it either! For two decades now we’ve been doing our ever-evolving thing in this community with just one strategic plan: It’s called Doing Things. Things we think might be fun. Things we think the community needs. And things we think could play a role in moving this place forward.
new neighborhoods, businesses, amenities, and more. The stuff that literally makes up the community around us. In that regard we’ve seen truly incredible changes – developments and redevelopments, parks and trails, streets and plazas –with more on the way. But perhaps more importantly to any meaningful place, are the changes you can’t see – things like attitudes, mindsets, ideas, and collaborations.
With that in mind, over these twenty When we first launched, we years we’ve become a media were surrounded by a lot company with publications, of people complaining websites, social media “there was nothing to feeds, video and marketing BUT do here,” that many capabilities, and more. PERHAPS MORE good ideas “would never We’re an event producwork here,” or even that tion company creating IMPORTANTLY TO they “couldn’t wait to hundreds of community ANY MEANINGFUL get out of this place.” happenings for thousands Thankfully, we’ve seen of locals and tourists alike. PLACE, ARE THE this community’s attitude And we’re a downtown CHANGES YOU toward itself completely retailer with our placeCAN’T SEE – transform over these based shop, The Local last two decades as so Store, featuring thousands THINGS LIKE many people, organizaof products from local ATTITUDES, tions, and businesses makers and beyond. So have worked together to we’ve changed a lot since MINDSETS, redefine what’s possible that first black-and-white IDEAS, AND here. And we’ve felt very zine came out in 2002. lucky to be here to help COLLABORATIONS. But we’re not the only thing tell some of those stories that has evolved over these along the way. two decades. Obviously a Today, while there’s still plenty of work to lot can change in any community in the span be done, this is truly a bustling, growing, of twenty years. (Or at least one would hope and evolving community with a very bright so.) And in the case of Eau Claire and the future. Thank you for letting us be a part of broader Chippewa Valley, that is absolutely it for these last twenty years, and for your the case. And we’re thankful for that. Most generous support along the way. would take that to mean physical changes –
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| JULY 28, 2022
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