[Vision2020] Safe Lefty's

[Paul Rumelhart]

They do have excellent shakes.  I'll be buying a raffle ticket or two.  
I hope they find another location.

As Keely pointed out, it takes more than just a cookie cutter and a 
bottom line to be a community business.  Where else am I going to get a 
buffalo burger?

Paul

Angie Doe wrote:
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> *Cut and Pasted in its entirety from an online bulletin.*
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> WHAT? Protest. But the weird, uncommon, positive type.
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> "Save Lefty's"
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> WHERE? Palouse Mall Enterance/Lefty's
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> WHEN? May 2nd, 5pm
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> Come, carry a sign for 5 minutes.
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> Get a free shake!
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> The details:
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> By now the word is officially out. The Lefty restaurant located in the 
> Palouse Mall, the home of the vandalizer (a now famous burger eating 
> challenge) and the best shake on the Palouse for many years is being 
> forced to close its doors in the mall...
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> The owners of Lefty's originally moved to the area with the vision of 
> running a small town restaurant. They bought Eric's Cafe and changed 
> the name to Lefty's. Over the years they have done huge amounts of 
> renovations, repainting, adding lighting, and just recently they added 
> booths to make the environment even cozier.
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> Now the Palouse Mall Corporation seems more interested in large 
> corporations than small local businesses. This seems to have in part 
> been also responsible for the closure of other small shops, like the 
> flower shop, S&P Hobbies, etc. The sad thing is that it is the small 
> local places that are really a part of culture.
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> The word on the street is that the mall plans to put in some large 
> corporate pizza joint.
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> Exactly what we need more of in our college town *weary smile*
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> In talking to the owner, Ken, he really wants to keep the restaurant 
> going… and he is looking for another location, but he needs to raise 
> some money to help in that transition.
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> There are two ways that you can help out:
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> Come to the Protest. There will be free shakes provided to everyone 
> who participates. There will be fun signs, etc. So come and have a 
> good time. The message of this is to be a positive message of helping 
> save the restaurant as a Moscow icon. So, not down with the mall or 
> anything like that. Instead, come and have a good time.
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> Buy a Raffle ticket: In an effort to raise some money to help with the 
> search and transition to a new place, Ken is hosting a raffle contest.
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> The raffle tickets will cost $10 each, and the prizes are as follows:
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> 5 Grand prizes
> >> 1 year of free food, every day at the new Lefty's.
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> 10 Second place prizes:
> >> 1 year of free food, once a week at the new Lefty's
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> 20 3rd Place Prizes:
> >> $25 gift certificates.
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> The raffle tickets can be purchased either in the Lefty's store or in 
> the next couple of days, they will be available for purchase via 
> Paypal at which point the link will be posted.
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> In the unfortunate event that Lefty's is unable to find a new 
> location, the money will be given to the Community Action Partnership, 
> Christmas for Kids, or some similar charity.
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