Anna Says Thanks

Hey Joey!
Just wanted to say thank you so much! It’s official! We received our email from Chase Mission Main Street that we officially reached the 250 Facebook votes we needed to be eligible to have our grant application considered for a $150,000 grant!
We could not have done this without the help of you, Good Morning Gloucester and EJ, Sista Felicia, Donna, Craig, Hannah and Alicia P and all the FOBs who voted for us – I want to thank them so much for supporting us and taking the time to vote for us. We told EJ about the grant and she graciously offered to include it in the blog, if anyone has ever had the pleasure to talk to EJ they know what a smart, kind generous person she is, for those who don’t know her she is a positive driving force in our community and we are all lucky to have her here, she is a very talented artist, author and all around wonderful human. When EJ’s blog post went live on September 30th we had 46 votes and that was about 4 days after we initially posted the link on our Facebook walls, by that evening, in less than a day, we had about 156 and it just steadily kept going up from there. A couple days later we reached 250! People may have thought, 250 votes what’s the big deal that’s easy to get – that’s what I thought when we first applied too, “oh this will be a piece of cake” I said to myself, but actually it’s not that easy to get 250 Facebook votes, eventually people get sick of hearing you beg for votes, my high school friends helped out and were awesome about it (go Lakers) but I thought at some point they are going to start unfriending me – the majority of the businesses that initially apply don’t make it to 250 and those that do don’t make it to 250 in just a couple of days! Chase actually gives you about a month and a half to get the 250 and even then some don’t make it – we were lucky to have the support of our community thru GMG. So between the blog post and Felicia, Hannah, Craig, Donna sharing it on Facebook, you tweeting the direct link for us – the votes rolled in. So for the 100th podcast beer, wine, soft drinks and pizza are on us for your help with this and to express our appreciation for everything that you do not just for us but the whole community and also just because you are a fun guy to be around. We appreciate you and all that you and your merry band of very talented contributors do! And hopefully we will send you an email in January that we won the grant! Thanks for helping us get the chance.
Sincerely,
Anna Baglaneas Eves
Cape Ann Giclee