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Some things you can do right away to help bolster our local economy

Shop local! Every dollar you spend in a locally owned store stays here longer. For every $100 spent in a store with a local owner, $45-70 stays in the local economy to be spent again.

For every $100 spent at a corporate owned store like Walmart or dollar stores, only $ 10-20 stays in the local economy to be spent again. e rest goes to their corporate headquarters.

For every $100 spent online or out of town with vendors like Amazon, Zappos or Menards less than $1 stays in our local economy to be spent again.

https://bealocalist.org/local-rst

Ask local retailers to carry locally produced goods whenever possible.

For every $100 spent on locally produced products $75-100 stays in the local economy to be spent again!

http://goo.gl/3OzcT

Get to know your neighbors and share resources.

Sharing things like tools, lawnmowers and other things that are only used occasionally, keeps more money in a household to be used for other things.

http://transitionsc.org/resource-sharinghttp://www.shareable.net

Learn more about regional self-reliance.We have an enormous opportunity to move in the direction of regional self reliance, building our local economy in the process.

http://www.ilsr.org/http://goo.gl/nJRlDM - Marthas Vineyards Self Reliance Plan!

Start making & fixing things again!Our society has become to reliant on throwing things away and buying new. Fostering repair will give people access to aordable products, make a huge dent in the e-waste problem, and create jobs.

https://ixit.org/revolutionhttp://goo.gl/3OzcTz

http://makerfaire.com/

Find a gap or niche and start your own business!

For this movement to be sucessful, we will need lots of of people to catch the entrepreneurial spirit! What busisness do you think we need to be more self-reliant?

http://ww2.wisconsin.gov/state/wizard/app/LoadIntro

Be willing to spend a little more on locally produced goods!

The trickle order is still in effect!

How do we calculate your water bill with the trickle order in effect?

For customers that have less than one year of user history. We have estimated the amount of water that was used for trickling purposes based on recent averages and applied a credit to your account.

For customers that have a year or more of user data.Your current usage has been compared with your average usage over the past two years (excluding the summer months when usage is generally higher). is has allowed us to customize the credit for each household based on actual water used during the trickle order. In all cases, the benet of the doubt has been given, and the lower water usage amount has been applied. e City of Washburn sta appreciates your patience and understanding during this cold winter. Several days of sta time have been spent helping to unthaw frozen mains and laterals. Your trickling helps to keep utility rates in check by reducing even more sta time being spent on utility matters. We hope to be able to provide an update on the trickling order within a couple weeks.

Please continue to trickle water until further notice.

Washburn EMS needs YOU to

become an EMT!e next course begins in

August. Contact Dan Clark for more info.

373-5883

Our economic bucket can overflow if we actively strive to plug the leaks!

e eects of our spending decisions

$75-100 stays in our local economy!

For every $100 spent on locally produced goods

$45-70 stays in our local economy

For every $100 spent in a locally owned business

$10-30 stays in our local economy

For every $100 spent in a

corporate owned chain store

Less than $1 stays in our

local economy

For every $100 spent with an

online or out of the area retailer

(this does not include locally

owned franchises)

Our local economy

Want to talk more about a Self-Reliant Regional Economy? Come have Pizza with the Mayor at DaLous Bistro --Thursday, April 10th at 6pm

compiled from multiple sources: civiceconomices.com, amiba.net, bealocalist.org