MAIN STREET-CRISES & RESTORATION
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MAIN STREET IS ONCE AGAIN THE FOCUS OF COMMUNITY PRIDE, SOCIAL ACTIVITIES, AND THAT SPECIAL PLACE THAT REPRESENTS PAST HISTORY AND PROMISES FOR THE FUTURE.

MAIN STREET BEFORE

 We urge & challenge ALL small communities to:

SAVE YOUR MAIN STREETS!!   WE DID IT—SO CAN YOU!

The following poem was sent to us by Ed & Delores Scieszinski after our massive Main street restoration (which they helped to complete). We ask that you read it CAREFULLY and PONDER this powerful message.

 ARE YOU A BUILDER ?

  I saw them tearing a building down- - - - - -A gang of men in our busy town.

With a ‘yo-heave-ho and a lusty yell.- - - - - - - - They swung a beam and a whole wall fell.

And I said to the foreman,  “Are these men skilled?"- - - - - -As the men you’d hire if you were to build?”

And he laughed & said, “Oh, no indeed,- - - - - - - - -The commonest labor is all I need.”

For I can easily wreck in a day or two- - - - - - - - -What builders have taken YEARS to do.”

And I thought to myself as I went my way,- - - - - - - Which of these roles have I tried to play?

Am I a wrecker who walks my town,- - - - - - - - - -Content with the labor of tearing down;

Or am I the builder who works with care- - - - - - - - - -That my town may be better because I’ve been there.

Anonymous

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