Hello again! Today is our last day together as interns here at Town Hall. Together we've gone around the Town of Greenburgh gathering video interivews as part of the "Think Globally, Shop Locally" project. We've posted almost 30 videos on YouTube highlighting Greenburgh's local businesses. At the beginning of our internship working with Mr. Feiner we were hard pressed to find any business that was willing to be featured in an interview. Even with the help of Paul Feiner himself many businesses were still reluctant to join the campaign. However after a few weeks Anthony and I got better at speaking on our feet; introducing ourselves to the businesses and encouraging them to play a part in our campaign.
The interviews allow shoppers to get to know the stores in their community. They also portray genuine people who truly care about their community and believe their business is a fixture and true part of Greenburgh. Many businesses have taken advantage of our program and we have started to see a positive response from the community.
Josh and I also worked on a variety of projects for Mr. Feiner including a New Residents Reception, creating a blog (what you're reading right now), co-hosting on WVOX "The Greenb
urgh Report", and researching ways to restore the 9/11 memorial wall on Central Park Avenue. For the New Residents Reception we again went door to door looking for food donations for the dinner. We managed to collect Pizza, Pasta, Sliders, and plenty of bagels. For the radio show we got to interview a variety of people rangeing from the New York state Obama Campaign director, to solar rock bands, to puppetiers.Finally we were able to create this blog which has cronicled everything we've done in the past 6 weeks. This blog has allowed us to connect with residents of Greenburgh, and publicise our message and goal for the "Think Globally, Shop Locally" initiative. Hopefully we've reached at least a few people and encouraged them to take advantage of the services and businesses in their community.
Thanks for reading,
Josh & Anthony
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