Photos combat birthday blues at Caribou Chamber of Commerce

    We had such a good time this past month! All summer was really too much fun, and then the two weeks leading up to Labor Day weekend were great. The weather worked out, and we had so many visitors, calls, and crisis! Such a hoot, I have to tell you, I was hoarse Saturday evening and on Sunday morning after the parade, and couldn’t think of why, when I first got up! Whewhua!     The ladies named my problem this past Thursday: “the birthday blues.” Downright sad.
    Tuesday after Labor Day was a frenzied day of people calling/or bringing in photos, buying things before they went home etc, and stopping in to say nice things before they left. Can you remember what it felt like after your birthday or Christmas when you were very young? I can remember thinking I didn’t know why everyone was always in such a hurry to take the tree down. I haven’t felt that way in quite some time, but this last week, yep: we’re there. One of the ladies said she felt how she’d felt after her wedding. We’re muddaboo. It’s official.
    On the up-side, we’re collecting quite a few very good celebration pictures! So many folks have taken such a bunch of good photos! Our theory is if we take entirely too many, a few are bound to be good ones. We do occasionally get pretty lucky, but I’m positive now, the public at large is taking more than our fair share of really good ones! We’re so happy to have everyone coming in to share with us, it’s been the happy spot in an otherwise fairly sad week.
    We are going to do another banner for the corner; we’ve had so many remarks about it, it seems like too good an idea to be finished quite yet. So while the first two were our own pictures, I have to tell you, the next one will have many more of yours in them than ours! We had a great time, and we’re getting serious about the Arts and Crafts Fair, and our Holiday/Shop Local campaign, but it still seems sad.
    Thank you so much to everyone who helped, and to everyone who’s called or stopped in to chat! The lists of each are long! We’re still feeling lucky to have been a part of it all, and we hope to see you at the fall Craft Fair next month. Take care.
    Wendy Landes, MPA, is the executive director of the Caribou Chamber of Commerce & Industry. She can be reached in person at 24 Sweden Street, Suite 101; by telephone at 498-6156 or via e-mail at wlandes@cariboumaine.net.