LETTER: Remember to support Madison Co. businesses

John and Pat Dunleavey are the owners of Pine Bush Nursery. John was one of the original founders of the Madison County Rotary Club. He and Pat were also the first financial supporters of the Rotary Club’s dynamic new literacy plan, jumping in and sponsoring the first 50 pre-kindergarten kids for this great “books into the home” program, getting this initiative off to a fantastic start. I know they’ve put a lot of years into growing their community as well as their nursery.

As if the drought weren’t hard enough on the nursery business already, this heavy snow took its own toll. But here it is now springtime and many of us are looking at doing a bit of landscaping to herald in the season. What better time, and what better place to find what you need than to cruise over there and support the local businesses of our county.

Pine Bush is just one example of the many businesses in Madison County that give back so much to their community. And it is just one example of ways we can sustain our own community by buying locally when we can. Groceries, gas, hardware ... anything we need, let’s make buying locally our first choice. In doing so, we can have an effect on our own prosperity and help insulate our community from the economic storm of this time.

Sincerely,

Chris Young