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Since the snow is melting and finally revealing the beautiful blacktop of streets and driveways, I figure I better reveal number 4 reason to be the little city that would:

Embrace our uniqueness! Our businesses distinguish us from others.  More than ever people are choosing to live in places that preserve their distinctive character—let’s use it to our advantage. 

      I am so proud of our community for putting us on the map with our "cheers" and ideas for Windom on readersdigest.com.  It was great to see!  We managed to round up 44,016 votes.  We ended up in 50 place, but there were a lot of cities cheering and for a population just shy of 5,000 we managed to make a statement.