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sheboro Magazine is all about promoting and supporting locally-owned, independent businesses. It’s about making your hard-earned money go further, fueling the local economy, and helping to preserve the unique character of Asheboro. We would like to introduce Asheboro Proud, a shop local community effort to keep more of your hard earned dollars in the Asheboro economy and strengthen the small businesses that make Asheboro unique.
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Be aware of the impact of your dollars. A locally owned independent business returns approximately 73% of each dollar spent back to the community. Local, independent businesses assist the community through a “multiplier effect”: one dollar spent at a locally owned business will return five times that amount 1. Buy local to support yourself within the community through city taxes, employees’ wages, 2. Keep our community unique and purchase of materials and supplies at other independent 3. Be eco-friendly businesses. In addition, these businesses will turn that dollar 4. Create more jobs back into the community through school funding, social 5. Get better customer service services, and contributions to local non-profit organizations. 6. Put your taxes to good use Chains and franchises contribute roughly 43% and at times 7. Invest in the community as little as 20% of the store’s sales back into the community 8. Support community groups through employee wages, sales taxes, and property taxes. 9. Promote competition and diversity Frequently, a chain store's location is owned by the larger non 10. Encourage future investment local company, and the business is given tax breaks in order for shareholder profits to remain high. Locally owned independent We’re proud to be Asheboro business owners and we businesses do not receive such benefits and thus contribute a intend on keeping as much of our money local as we can and far greater proportion of revenues to local taxes. hope you will help us raise awareness of this initiative by doing the same. We are just in the beginning stages of the Asheboro Choice makes for a richer community Proud initiative, but we were so excited, we wanted to let Local, independent businesses are located all over greater everyone know about it. Stay tuned...there is much more to Asheboro. You can grab a coffee to go, pick up locally grown follow.
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Dr. David Jones Director North Carolina Zoo
proud to call the zoo clients and friends. We believe Asheboro is on the brink of explosive growth. In fact, I have dubbed Asheboro the Opportunity Mecca. Having a zoo of this caliber in our own backyard is testament to the quality of what Asheboro has to offer. I don’t think there is a better place to be as an entrepreneur. We were fortunate to be guests of the North Carolina Zoological Society at their recent fundraising event, Zoo to Do, the zoo’s largest annual fundraiser. This was the first time (and certainly not the last) that we were in attendance. From what we were told before hand, this is an event not to be Dave Johnson missed and now that we have been, we would concur. Running a zoo is Publisher an expensive endeavor running a world class zoo, even more so. If you have not been to this event, we strongly encourage you to - Nicole Kidman do so next year. Even though rain loomed on the horizon, and paid the Dear Readers, event a short visit during dinner, the e love the Zoo. It attendee’s spirits were dampened. was one of the I was impressed by the amount of reasons we moved to people that came because I really Asheboro. Our family thought the forecast would discourage vacations revolve around visiting zoos more people. The food, catered by and aquariums. Having a zoo in our Sodexo and Chef Bruce M. Enteen, was “backyard” and being able to go anytime outstanding and plentiful. There were we want (we have a family membership) some absolutely gorgeous items being is awesome. Unfortunately, as it is auctioned as part of the fund-raising with most things, some take the zoo event. My favorite part of the evening was for granted. For this reason, if you haven’t visited recently, I would strongly all the fantastic people we met and talked with. Also, it provided me with a encourage you to do so. Recently, the North Carolina Zoo was tremendous opportunity to take plenty named one of the best in the World by of pictures. I like taking candid photos the Association of Zoos and Aquariums better than posed, but this event (AZA). According to Wikipedia, the AZA offered an opportunity, as you will see, is active in institution accreditation, for both. The Zoo to Do fundraiser animal care initiatives, education and was a blast and I hope this edition of conservation programs, collaborative Asheboro Events Magazine motivates research and political lobbying in you to be there next year. Thanks again to the North Carolina order to achieve this goal. In fact, it was the AZA that originally granted Zoological Society, Dr. David Jones and accreditation to the North Carolina Zoo everyone else at the zoo for giving us in 1984. According to Jim Maddy, the such a wonderful event and a World CEO and President of AZA, “It takes Class Zoo!! hard work and dedication to meet AZA Accreditation Standards.” If it is that difficult to become accredited, just imagine what it takes to earn the classification of “One of the Dave Johnson, Publisher best Zoos in the World. I want to extend facebook.com/asheboromagazine kudos to Dr. David Jones and everyone else at the zoo for providing us with “One of the best Zoos in the World”. Asheboro Magazine, AsheboroEvents. com and AsheboroCalendar.com is
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