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Cities in America have begun to look more like each other in recent years. Every place is beginning to look like every other place.
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Imagine another kind of city on the shore of a beautiful lake where walking has been rediscovered, where streets and sidewalks invite people to stroll, linger and socialize, not just to move on through.
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Imagine a city with locally owned businesses with their own character and style, where you can get to know the owners by name.
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Imagine buildings that aren't interchangeable with those built by some other developer in another town, but whose look and function are related to their place.
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Image a lakefront park that is the highlight of the city, where the community gathers for its civic, cultural and social functions. Imagine a place where there is a melting pot of culture from Puerto Rico to Chinese to Italian. |
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Image a lakefront performing arts building having an impressive cultural and economic impact on the community by attracting area visitors to the lakefront during the summer and fall seasons.
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Imagine a municipal airport designed to leverage time and talent. Our airport makes rapid access to our city possible. Minneapolis St. Paul thirty minutes.
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Imagine a beautiful lake. One must see an October moon come up over the lake, listen to the quavering cry of a loon from out of the mist in the early dawn, hear spawning fish breaking water at night or hear the sleepy quacking of a nesting mallard duck to appreciate what the lake means to most of us who live here.
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These are the thoughts that come to mind when we think about our exciting, livable, progressive, up north community, the city of Shell Lake.
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