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"Hi Ladies!,Can you post our show information.....and use that awesome graphic you found for the audition notice? Thanks so much for your excellent work!!!" Mark from Summerstage ___________________________________________________________________________ "Thank you so much for running such a nice add on your page for our annual Block Party! We served over 400 people that day! We gave out over 150 bags of school supplies, dental supplies, 12 backpacks and an MP3 player and oh the hot dogs and hamburgers we ran out and had to get more!!!!! Ha Ha! We started with 300 hundred hot dogs and 150 hamburgers! Just wanted to say thanks for helping us touch our community in such a profound way!" Victoria A. ____________________________________________________________________________ "I used your site for my sale and now my mom wants to advertise hers as well. I just love that you have it available at such a reasonable rate!" Lisa C. ____________________________________________________________________________ "You always do such great design work on the site that I'm confident that you will make us look great. Again, thank you for your help. Granite City Gossip has become a great community asset and we would be proud to be included on the site." Granite City TOPS ____________________________________________________________________________ "Thanks again for the great work – the website is always presented well, very informative and I know it isn’t always easy to do these things on a timely basis." Patty Rose GCAPA Fund Raising ___________________________________________________________________________ "You guys were so great to advertise the Montessori School Open House for me. We had several families visit us and say that they learned about the Open House from your website." ___________________________________________________________________________ "Thanks for putting the info about our Trivia on the front page of Granite City Gossip!! We truly appreciate all you do for our organization. Your support always generates more tables, thus more money for our critters!! Thanks Again,Christine WallaceVolunteer/VP GCAPA" ____________________________________________________________________________ "Thank you very much for the beautiful memorial you made for my mother. It's so expensive to do a memorial in the newspaper, and you do it for free and make them so very beautiful. We look at it all the time and have sent the link to many family members. My family can't thank you enough." ____________________________________________________________________________ "Wow, loved the pictures of the Santa Claus Parade. It was so great to see all our citizens making such a great parade for our town. Thank you." ____________________________________________________________________________ "We love the historic pages, and all the old pictures. We love the old advertisements too. Thank you for the memories!" ___________________________________________________________________________ "I just found this site, it was sent to me by a friend. It's great to see all the improvements that the mayor is making for the city. I don't live in Granite anymore, but check your site all the time to see what's happening in my old town." ____________________________________________________________________________ "Thank you guys so much for making this site for Granite City. It lets everyone know what good works we have going on here in our hometown!" ___________________________________________________________________________ "Thank you again for the Great Ad Advertisement!!!!!!!!!!! My Yard Sale was a Great Success!!!! Keep up the good work." ___________________________________________________________________________ "We are so excited to see the old pictures, etc. Thanks to anyone and everyone who have contributed to this site as it brought back many memories. Our family, the Morgers, resided in Granite City from 1948 until my father's death in 1977. My sister, Linnea Olivo, lives in the Dallas area, and I, Cheryl Duke, reside in El Paso, Texas. We have lost touch with our old hometown so this site really gives us that warm, fuzzy feeling." Thanks Again, Cheryl Morger Duke ___________________________________________________________________________ "I'd like to thank you for all that you've done not just for me, but for Granite City as a whole. Everyone that I've talked to has loved the site you created." __________________________________________________________________ "After finding this site I was surprised to see for the first time someone addressed this issue. Thank you GraniteCityGossip.com!! It's hard to say how this problem should be resolved. There must be a way. I have a few ideas. Make each merchant responsible. Why should they not be accountable for littering? When laws are broken there are penalties. Nothing works like hitting where it hurts, like the pocketbook!! Every cart that is left abandoned should be stamped by the police, the way we are if we park in a "No Parking Zone". After 24 hours if the cart/s is still there....ticket the owner/s. I'm not sure if trash containers are available around the bus stops, if not, they should be. Wouldn't the street department be responsible for the trash? After all, isn't that considered "City Property"?Wouldn't Granite City benefit from these fines?" _____________________________________________________________________________ "If you got together with Aldi's and made everyone pay a quarter to begin shopping it may help. Also merchants could consider giving a $1.00 off coupon to anyone who brings in their shopping cart when they come in. The coupon could be redeemed at the time of the visit or saved for future visits to the store. By not limiting the coupons, one to a purchase, people could save them and use multiple coupons on a larger purchase." ____________________________________________________________________ "I, like you, am appalled to see the amount of trash found on our streets and public places. I live on Maryville Road and am compelled to pick up at least twice each week from my front lawn empty beer cans, beer bottles, cigarette packs, candy wrappers, fast food wrappers, etc., from what I assume to be drive-by litterers. I suspect that those who have no pride in their town have first and foremost no pride in themselves. The solution? I'm not sure. But I think your website is a definite step in the right direction; though I fear that those who might most need to read it won't. Nevertheless, let us keep bashing away!" ____________________________________________________________________ "I agree with you regarding your shopping cart article. I moved to GC in 2000 after growing up in KY and moving to Missouri to attend school at SLU. My husband grew up in MO and I finally convinced him to move to IL. We do like GC, but sometimes the parking lots are so trashy that it is embarrassing. I think GC's reputation is uncalled for, but when I see stuff like this--it makes me wonder. I am proud of the progress that GC has made, but until everyone is responsible for their trash and shopping carts; our shopping center are going to look awful!" _____________________________________________________________________ "When I drive on Nameoki Road it almost embarrasses me. When asked where I live, it's almost shameful to say Granite City. I then feel the need to back it up with, 'It's not as bad it used to be.' But is that honestly true? You just showed images of shopping carts, there is still trash and all of the debris from the storm. There are still gigantic pot holes and quite honestly it just looks dirty. Drive to Alton and look at the main road there or Edwardsville, ours looks much worse than any of those. What can we do as a community? Where are the programs or dollars allocated in order to fix our community up? I'm sure they are out there; I just want to know where the money is going." ___________________________________________________________________ "I must admit that our Family Dollar carts have made it to that spot as well. It seems like the more we bring them back, the more some customers feel that our carts are their very own carry-all. From what I understand, the strip mall owner(s) won't allow the different companies to install cart fencing or deposit-type racks. I'm sure this is why there are so many carts from the businesses everywhere but where they should be:) A solution to this eyesore would be to put more pressure on the owners of the strip mall to allow the businesses to individually install something to stop this, or, if the owners are afraid that this will detract from the style of the strip mall the owners could install something themselves. Cart fencing, where there is a thick metal fence with openings to small to allow carts to get through would be a simple, inexpensive idea the owners could install with a minimum of fuss and expense. Believe me, as manager of one of the businesses there, I would love to get a workable solution from the mall owner(s), and I'm sure the other businesses would as well." _______________________________________________________________ "Hey, I thought I would comment about the stray cart's everywhere. I worked for shop n save and big lot's and I have rounded up carts for both, more than my fair share of time's. It's hard to keep track of all the cart's but also the store managers wouldn't allow us ( the employees ) to go very far to retrieve the cart's either. I guess they assume someone will push them back on to the property, so the carts out of reach were a lost hope to us. I agree something needs to be done one way or another. Aldi's has a wonderful method, if only other stores could see that. Plus, I would like to add ,I for the longest while rode the bus to and from work, and during the day I was embarrassed to stand at the bus stop with all the carts full of trash and all the trash on the ground. I would actually walk a bit down the road and catch the bus as it was coming towards me. Thanks for your time!" ________________________________________________________________ "The trash and shopping carts have been there for a few years, besides no one is going to clean it up, unless you will, because of people's carelessness and laziness. So unless you pick it up or have a team with you to clean up the community, then it will probably stay there or get worse." ________________________________________________________________ "Thank you so much for your support of the arts in Granite City." ________________________________________________________________ "Thank you for your service to the community. This is great and will help out our Hockey club a great deal. Thank you from everyone at Granite City High School Warrior Hockey. (Midstates Team)" ________________________________________________________________ "I heard about this site from a friend who had ran across it. I really like it, and think it has great potential to inform our community, and surrounding communities!!" ________________________________________________________________ "WAY TO GO! I just found out about the web site when a friend sent me a link. I'll be checking out this web site VERY often, you can bet. And I'll probably join the forum too. Keep up the good work!" _________________________________________________________________ "Will ad you to my links. Great site." __________________________________________________________________ "Thank you for the wonderful tribute to my son, I was so moved and honored by all the support we received." _________________________________________________________________ |