Frankenmuth

6 The partners at the City, Schools and Chamber are expanding the reach of the Frankenmuth Living Magazine by offering a new way to share information. Those who live, work, or go to school in the Frankenmuth School District can join this new group, appropriately titled "Frankenmuth Living," to participate in two-way dialog and engagement with our local community. The group is not intended to duplicate other individual pages such as the City of Frankenmuth, the Frankenmuth page that promotes tourism of our fine city, the Chamber group, the local buy-sell-trade group or others. To keep the group focused, the content positive, and the resource valuable, there are a few rules members need to follow in order to join. Interested people will first need to set up a Facebook account if you don't already have one. Once you navigate to the group and request to join, you'll be prompted to answer a few simple questions and read the rules of the group. These group rules are in place to help maintain a local vibe and protect the group from being overtaken by visitors. Visitors to our City are important, but it's equally important for our local people to have a safe place to have community conversation as well as share information. This new forum is exactly that; a great place for locals to gather online and have conversations about the things we love about our City. It's also a place to share information between issues of the Magazine or Frankenmuth News so we can all be more "in the know" about local happenings. It's a place to share ideas so maybe someone will join you in moving the idea forward or to share a struggle so others can lend a hand. Neighbors helping neighbors... that's Frankenmuth Living! We have received questions from people who are concerned they don't "qualify" as a local. If you live, work or have children in the local school district, you are without a doubt a local! But that is not where the line is drawn! This is a general guidance for our distribution efforts. Many of our neighbors also consider themselves local to Frankenmuth because they do much of their business, shopping or hanging out here. If you feel local, you are local! While the distribution of the Frankenmuth Living Magazine is limited to people who live, work (distributed to businesses not individual employees), and have children in the Frankenmuth School District, anyone that feels "local" is welcome to pick up a magazine at the Chamber Office or City Hall. And the mailing list is complicated, so if you know someone who has been missed, please have them email Ashley at projects@frankenmuth.org or stop into the Chamber of Commerce office. Frankenmuth Living G O E S S O C I A L What's a Local?

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