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Local News - Local News - May 24, 2012
Sandpoint economic-development effort focuses on foodies
Economic development initiative also highlights area beverage makers

By Mike McLean
Of the Journal of Business

Stephen Meyer pours a sample of cabernet franc produced by Pend d'Oreille Winery, which will host three Wheelbarrow Wednesday events this summer as part of the Savor Sandpoint initiative.
Stephen Meyer pours a sample of cabernet franc produced by Pend d'Oreille Winery, which will host three Wheelbarrow Wednesday events this summer as part of the Savor Sandpoint initiative.
- Staff photo by Mike Mclean
In his search for ideas to spark economic development in Sandpoint, Idaho, Mark Rivers, a Boise-based real estate and marketing consultant, says he discovered that local food and beverage purveyors, individually and sometimes in cooperation, had led him to one conclusion: Life tastes good in Sandpoint.

With that in mind, Forward Sandpoint, the economic vitality team Rivers consults, has launched the Savor Sandpoint initiative to promote the city's potential to become a regional dra...


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