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Mayors Corner

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

How you spend your hard-earned dollars is your own business. Where you spend those dollars goes a long way toward helping yourself, your neighbors and your community.

Shopping locally and keeping those hard-earned dollars working for you at home isn’t something to keep in mind only during Christmas or when the kids go back to school in September.

Committing to shopping local takes effort and research on how to spend wisely. Think a minute about your daily purchases; things such as your morning coffee, fill-ups at the gas pump, and lunch-hour meals; consider the money you spend on home projects, auto repairs, family dinners and parties.

Local businesses’ impact on the community comes in many ways. Sales taxes generated are used to compute federal and state dollars returned home for things such as sewer projects and parks improvements. Motor-fuel taxes paid

at the pump specifically fund local road improvements. If you are fueling up out of town to save a few pennies a gallon, you are probably costing yourself many times over what would be returned to rebuild the roads you travel in Willow Springs.