Big thanks to PC Home Center, which performed a last-minute chair delivery for Lloyd's Landing. It was our first occasion to use the new and evolving outdoor area, and early returns look positive.
Brendan Zubrowski of Crossroad Vintners offered samples from the Willett line of bourbon and rye. He went non-stop from 2 - 5 p.m., after which Chef Matt executed a stupendous Willett Bourbon Dinner.
Weather was ideal, and a very small number of volunteers pulled off a first-year event with the minimum of support from the city. Pardon me for editorializing, but it would have been nice for a few elected officials to observe the principles of localism put into practice in an event like this one, but in the end, New Albany's indie businesses will continue to walk the walk even if the CM CeeSaws of our city can't grasp that it applies to them, too.
I'm proud to be associated with NA First, and if you are an indie businessperson in New Albany, it is time to get with the localism program, so that just maybe we can progress through the exercise of collective action in a manner seldom possible through supposedly rugged individualism.
Folks, that's not socialism. If you're an independent small business owner, it's just plain common sense.
As a board member of New Albany First and an independent personality with an independent business I will be the first to admit my success in the past derived from an independent spirit with my own sweat and tears. As I have grown both as an individual and business I have learned the value of joining with others to accomplish or hopefully accomplish a spirit of community.
ReplyDeleteWhere I live and my business propspers is critical to the local communities future. Not as a pat on my back but as a place where others will want to live and thrive with their heads held high in pride.
Economically this can be achieved in the long run by our community and independent businesses co-operation in getting involved.
New Albany First does not exsist for its own benefit or claim to fame, but for the love and care of our brothers and sisters with the spirit of being independent and sharing with our community the benefits of a strong LOCAL economy. As individuals this is impossible to achieve, but as a whole it is a true possibility.
So please consider joining us.