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   We are pleased to share with our Change.org supporters, that with the help of your support, Downtown Ellensburg ended 2008 with a net increase of 13 new downtown businesses and at least two of our downtown retailers reported that this was their best year ever!
   
    Our Brown Bag Business Basics small business education program received a Washington State Excellence in Downtown Revitalization award, and we made great strides in working with the City to address the complex code compliance issues that often hinder adaptive reuse of downtown’s historic buildings.   
   
   We also successfully funded our first 2 change.org supported projects.  The installation of two functional art bike racks, (two more have just been funded and will be installed in May 2009 during national bike to work month) and production of a kids art calendar featuring children’s drawings of Downtown’s important historic buildings.
   
   Thanks to supporters like you it’s been a good year for Downtown Ellensburg and we'll be working hard to make 2009 an equally great year and appreciate your support. please invite your friends to join our efforts.

   Posted by ELLENSBURG DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION on 01/03/2009 @ 11:45AM PST

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   Kathrin,
   
   Thank you for supporting the Ellensburg Downtown Association.  We are a grass roots local non-profit working to preserve and revitalize Ellensburg’s historic Downtown using the National Main Street Center’s 4-Point Main Street approach. 
   
   We are very excited about change.org and it’s potential to help us build a stronger community and more vibrant Downtown.  While we are still pretty new to change.org we are accomplishing great things with the help of our supporters like yourself.  You can find more information about the Ellensburg Downtown Association and our efforts at www.myspace.com/ellensburgdowntown or www.ellensburgdowntown.org   Please invite a few friends

   Posted by ELLENSBURG DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION on 01/02/2009 @ 08:36AM PST

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   Kathrin,
   
   Thanks for adding me as a friend.   I am very excited about Change.org and the opportunity it provides to  support the important non profits and charitable causes that make a difference in our communities and the world we live in.
   
   
   I have started the action Support Downtown Revitalization to help build awareness of the important community building work that local non profits are doing in communities across the country to create and maintain vibrant and  healthy downtowns. 
   
   
   I hope you will consider taking this action and if you have a favorite non profit working to revitalize your downtown please recommend them to change.org
   
   
   Timothy Bishop, CMSM
   www.change.org/ellensburgdowntown 

   Posted by Timothy Bishop, CMSM on 11/26/2008 @ 10:59PM PST

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