Comments by cheryl
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Posted on September 5 at 5:54 p.m.
I was in Hartford yesterday. Theda Wolford at Bill's Hardware mentioned that she sells embroidery thread.
On Shop locally
Posted on September 2 at 7:41 a.m.
Thanks for the good wishes, create and neighbor. And madpoet, I'll give the backwards-up-the-stairs a try one of these days. Maybe. Mostly I avoid steps. They're just trouble.
Posted on July 26 at 10:39 a.m.
Two thoughts on the closing of Hastings:
1) If Emporians don't buy locally, Emporia stores go away. When we support Amazon, Barnes & Noble in Topeka, Borders, etc., our hometown stores can't make it. Sure it's fun to shop online and in other towns, but it's to our benefit to spend most of our money in Emporia.
2) OPM. Other People's Money. Emporia may not be a tourist mecca, but we do get visitors -THOUSANDS of them - a year. If we promote "tourism," recognize this gift we have of the vistors' presence, treat these people kindly, they will be more willing to spend their money HERE.
These visitors are parents of ESU students who come for a weekend. They are sports teams and their families that come for soccer meets, wrestling meets, baseball at Soden's Grove, ESU basketball/football games.
We are lucky to be at the junction of several major highways. Some of these visitors are people who just stop in town, resting overnight during a long journey. They stay in our motels, eat at our restaurants, buy gas at our stations. If they are treated warmly, if they feel Emporia is a good town, they may stop again, they may tell others about Emporia.
And as weird as it sounds to Emporians, some of these visitors come specifically to see and explore Emporia. Heck, I go to Newton, Hutchinson, Olpe, Admire, Council Grove - just to see those towns. Some people come - on purpose - to Emporia, They are interested in the history here, the WAW house, seeing our Veterans Memorial, the Marsh Arch bridge, the Zoo, the Granada Theatre.
When out-of-towners spend $10, $20, $100 here, that helps keep our businesses alive, and they pay sales tax that helps our community. That is money that Emporia residents don't have to come up with.
These tourists/ESU parents/soccer families may be invisible to many of us, but we need them.
Maybe it's not the right time for a tourist center, I don't know, but I do hope that as a community we recognize the financial value of these visitors - their purchases provide sales tax money and their purchases help support Emporia businesses like Jock's Nitch, like Hastings.
Posted on July 22 at 7:45 p.m.
Irishemporia brought it up: Bluestem Farm and Ranch Supply.
We are not getting the mileage out of that store that we could. We see it every day and take it for granted, but it is, or could be a tourist attraction. It's a unique shopping experience. And it could be marketed as such.
Women like it too, but it's a place that men would be willing to pull off the road for.
Just like the hundreds of Wall Drug Store (SD) and Ruby Falls (TN) billboards, we could blanket the state with Bluestem billboards. Get people curious, make them want to find out what it is.
Posted on July 1 at 7:12 p.m.
Let's hear it for self-initiative, for the organizers who recognized the community's need and desire for a July 4 celebration and did something about it. You guys rock.
Posted on June 15 at 9:21 a.m.
Well, now I have to wait until 7:10 a.m. tomorrow to go stand at 6th and Merchant to sniff around! :-)
Maybe one of the folks in Broadview prefers his/her toast black?
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Posted on September 30 at 6:14 p.m.
Here's the link to the 3-minute video that played on USA network tonight at 6 p.m.
http://www.usanetwork.com/highway50/vide...
On NBC piece postponed