Two weeks left to vote for the best

We have a little over two weeks left of the Best of the Valleys voting, the votes are adding up. Make sure to cast your before June 8 so you will be counted. Winners will be announced in the July 4 issue!

This is the third year we have sponsored the Best of the Valleys. Our 2017 intern Micah Drew proposed the idea, helped us create it and helped us produce the first “Best of the Valleys.”

Our intent has been to help promote local businesses by encouraging people to visit area businesses, recognize those that rise to the top in a popular vote through the publication mid-summer and a plaque that can be displayed in the business and, yes, foster a little healthy competition.

Each of the categories is left blank and open to the imagination not promoting one business over another. Each year we consider newly suggested categories, carefully weighing if it meets the above intent and it is a broad enough category to include more than a few businesses/groups.

Help us recognize all the hard work our communities’ business owners and local groups do to make the Blackfoot, Clearwater and Swan Valleys the best place to live and work.

The survey is available online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MXKPW8R. We also have paper copies in our office in the Bison and Bear Center open Mondays and Tuesdays 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. (except we will be closed Memorial Day).