Neighborhood Businesses Need Your Support
Photo: John Hammond
Now that we have mostly dug ourselves out and helped our neighbors dig themselves out, there is still another group that needs our help. We have heard from many of the businesses in Mt. Washington Village that they are still feeling great pain. Many of them are not able to sustain themselves for multiple weeks without the normal volume of customers. A front page article on the Baltimore Sun’s website today focused on Mt. Washington businesses specifically.
During the breaks between the storms, the business owners worked hard to make sure that there would be parking available and that there would be no impediments to anyone who wished to patronize them. Unfortunately, while some neighbors braved the elements to visit the salon or eat a meal out, not enough have done so. This has become a critical situation for our local businesses, and they need your help.
If you usually eat out once a week and ended up being homebound for six or seven days, don’t wait for next weekend — head on down to the Village and eat a meal at one of the restaurants one night this week. Then go again next weekend (you already budgeted for it, right?). It will make you feel good just getting out of the house, and it will help to ensure that we continue to have a wonderful variety of cuisines available to us within walking distance.
Apply the same theory to your shopping habits too. Treat yourself to a massage to relieve your aching shoulders and back (that snow was heavy!). Also, you really shouldn’t let your personal (or pet) grooming needs wait a day longer. Oh, and take a yoga class while you’re down there to rid your mind, body, and spirit of cabin fever.
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