Lynne Scheible of Big Rapids, Michigan writes:<\/p>\n
“Leadership Mecosta, our community leadership program, is sponsoring a community art project.<\/p>\n
“Area businesses and organizations are sponsoring fiberglass statues of more than 30 bulldogs, 3 by 4 feet.\u00a0 We chose a bulldog because it’s the mascot of Ferris State University, our local college.<\/p>\n
“Our job now is to promote the heck out of this so that people will come to Big Rapids and the surrounding area to see these dogs artistically designed by local artists.\u00a0 Our web page is at http:\/\/www.yearofthedawg.com<\/p>\n
“Other communities have done similar projects.\u00a0 Chicago did cows.\u00a0 South Haven, Michigan did bears.\u00a0 And Midland, Michigan did Trolls.<\/p>\n
“Can your Hounds come up with some promotion ideas to pull tourists to Big Rapids to see these dawgs?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lynne Scheible of Big Rapids, Michigan writes: “Leadership Mecosta, our community leadership program, is sponsoring a community art project. “Area businesses and organizations are sponsoring fiberglass statues of more than 30 bulldogs, 3 by 4 feet.\u00a0 We chose a bulldog because it’s the mascot of Ferris State University, our local college. “Our job now is\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":0,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[427,607],"class_list":{"0":"post-1469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-marketing","8":"tag-promotions","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41546,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/41546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}