Saranac Lake Community Store

The Community Store Project of Saranac Lake, New York

***THE ORANGE SOLUTION***

This is not some guy from India writing you about a long lost inheritance…This is from Saranac Lake, so read on…

OKAY FOLKS…THE RIBBONS ARE OUT AND ABOUT…

Put up an orange ribbon of your own or you can find them at Major Plowshares and Books and Baskets in Saranac Lake. (They will be available in more places soon)…just ask for an orange ribbon or two. No cost or you can give a donation if you want to. So read on, get a ribbon and pass the message on to others.

Orange is appearing everywhere.

Read on to know why:

THE ORANGE RIBBON SOLUTION

This idea arose from a “late afternoon rocking on the front porch” discussion. The conversation centered on the sometimes cruel statements that have been tossed around regarding the BIG BOX STORE in Saranac Lake issue and how to rise above the “trench warfare”. It was during the “Front Porch” discussion that several people came to a solution:

THE ORANGE RIBBON SOLUTION

The ORANGE RIBBON means COMMUNITY FIRST…without a BIG BOX STORE

This is not an organization…it is a movement.

While we all may see this issue from a different perspective…simply indifferent to the store but want it smaller, pro retail size cap, pro community store, anti Big Box, …we all shared two similar core beliefs:

We believe in (one) COMMUNITY FIRST…Without a (two) BIG BOX STORE

We are urging people to pick up an ORANGE RIBBON 5’ long.

Hang the ribbon on your mailbox, building, tree, your car antenna, out your window, etc.

Put lots of ribbon to express a greater emotion. Give ribbons to your friends.

Why you choose to hang the ORANGE RIBBON is Self Determining … Whether you are anti Big Box, pro size cap, pro community department store…SAGA, SSL, CDS…or indifferent…it doesn’t matter. This is a SYMBOL to the Village and Town Boards, as well as to the community as a whole...without having to say anything, that we have a unified goal of COMMUNITY PEOPLE dedicated to a COMMUNITY without a BIG BOX STORE.

For more information contact the Community Store.