The groceries purchased during the Mayor's Grocery Showdown showed the local impact of tourism and benefited North Fulton Community Charities.
Even though Roswell Mayor Jere Wood technically beat out Alpharetta Mayor Arthur Letchas during the first annual Mayor's Grocery Showdown, the real winner was North Fulton Community Charities (NFCC), which received more than $1,000 in donated groceries as a result of the event. "The real winner is North Fulton Community Charities," said Alpharetta Convention & Visitors Bureau President Janet Rodgers, at the end of the event. To show the impact of tourism on the local economy, the Roswell and Alpharetta Convention & Visitors Bureaus challenged the mayors to purchase exactly $498 worth of groceries in order to emphasize the figure the tourism industry saves each Georgia household. According to the Georgia Department of Economic Development’s…
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Roswell Patch editor, Christine Foster, finds out some of what Mayor Jere Wood considers the city's best qualities and the direction it's headed in by going straight to the source.
As a lifelong resident and mayor of Roswell since 1997, Jere Wood, knows a thing or two about the city. An avid cyclist, Wood can tell you about the best places to ride a bicycle. Or perhaps he might share stories of a boyhood spent roaming forests and fields when the city's population was only 2,000. How times have changed. Today, Roswell is approximately 41 square miles, it's home to around 85,000 residents and oversees more than 900 acres of parkland. Under Wood's mayorship, the city has consistently been named one of the top places to live, raise a family and retire by a plethora of different organizations. Within these past 13 years, the city's police and recreation departments have received accreditation, Roswell has been awarded …
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