Great news! Boyne City has been named a winner of the Michigan Main Street Photo Contest sponsored by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. Boyne City was the winner of the Promotion category, which focused on photos that display Main Street community events and local downtown image-building campaigns. The city will receive $1,000 for its winning submission. The photo was taken by local photographer Kim Mettler during the Boyne City Harvest Festival.
“These photos visually represented the heart and soul of our Michigan Main Streets and gave communities an opportunity to showcase their downtown revitalization efforts and accomplishments as Main Street communities. MEDC received many strong submissions and the judges had a hard time deciding on winning images,” said MEDC Senior Vice President of Community Development Katharine Czarnecki. “Boyne City’s submission, which shows a unique community event that demonstrates Michigan Main Street communities’ aim to ensure and promote downtown as the heart of the community, best represented the Promotion category.”
In order to submit photos, a community had to be either a Select or Master Level Main Street Community in the Michigan Main Street Program. Administered by MEDC, the program provides technical assistance for communities desiring to develop their own local Main Street program by utilizing the Main Street Approach™ – a common-sense approach to tackling the complex issues of revitalization by capitalizing on downtown’s history and identifying the unique assets of the community itself. For more information on the Michigan Main Street Program, visit https://www.miplace.org/communities/mms/.
The Michigan Main Street Photo Contest was created to allow communities to showcase their downtown revitalization efforts and highlight their accomplishments as Main Street communities. The contest was an opportunity for Main Street communities to highlight the work they are doing and get local people interested in what their community has to offer. The contest ran from September 11 and December 22, 2017, and had five separate segments, each running for three weeks. Boyne City joins four other communities – Howell, Portland, Blissfield and Wayland – to be announced as winners in MEDC’s photo contest.
For more information, please contact Kelsie King-Duff, Boyne City Main Street Executive Director, 231.582.9009 or via email at mainstreet@boynecity.com.
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