MacLevin's opened November 22, '98.
... We live and do business here.
LANDMARK EVENTS:
FOOD TAX:
During our time here, we have
twice (once in 1999 & again in 2003), spear-headed a restaurant
coalition in the protest and subsequent removal of a proposed food tax.
MAJOR EVENTS:
We have successfully produced, as
Jacksonville Events Guild, four major events for the City of
Jacksonville and created one on-going monthly event, the Jacksonville
Art Amble.
The first event, on
Feb. 3, 2001, was "Year of the Snake", a Chinese New Year
Celebration, paying homage to the Chinese workers who helped,
by their sweat, the development of Southern Oregon. They were the
railroad builders, the gold field laborers and the general work
force...and treated as outcasts! So, to our thoughts, a tribute
celebration was called for.
For the second event,
on Feb. 16, 2002, we produced our second Chinese New Year, "Year of the
Horse". It was very successful, both for the City and the merchants in
J'ville in both the attendance and the monetary returns gained by the
efforts of so many volunteers. This event is now held annually.
The third event, on
June 30, 2002, was J'ville's 150th Birthday Celebration,
"Americana Jubilee...what was here then"...with music, dance, Mountain
Men, horses, contests, a vintage baseball game and a street of displays
presented by the State and Federal agencies that manage our natural
resources (forests, land, air, volcanoes, ecology and waterways). It
was a rousing success, to be sure!
The fourth event
(sometimes the world outside invents the next undertaking) came in
March 2003, when we began a support system to boost the morale of the
1042nd Air Ambulance Medical Company of the Oregon National Guard in
Saudi Arabia & Kuwait. The effort was coordinated from all over the
Rogue Valley and materials were mailed every Friday for two months. We
shipped over 800 pounds of everything from golf balls to baked goods to
music, etc.: much of what was missing from adopted companies daily
lives. This project then grew to a "Proclamation" from the City of
J'ville on May 3, 2003, and the culmination of our "support" effort for
the 1042nd and "Military Rally" sending invitations to over 25 families
of military personnel on duty here and abroad.
... This event contained many different
elements: band music, singing, speeches, displays, a helicopter
landing, Color Guard and military personnel from allover the Rogue
Valley. It was produced and directed by MacLevin's and the Jacksonville
Events Guild. It was a tear-filled 3-hour event ... it was wonderful!
PETER BRITT STATUE:
We rallied the community yet another time
with the creation of the statue of Peter Britt. This
took one year from idea to completion. Working with artist Ralph
Starritt of Yreka, CA, we surmounted many obstacles from the finances
to the permission from the J'ville City itself. The statue is installed
beside the entrance to the Britt Festival grounds and stands 94 inches
tall. It is made from 18 gauge, cold rolled steel with a bronze plaque
of commemoration.
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Everyone has a duty to their
community.
Service to the community plays a great role in that community's
existence and how it relates to the people living there. So, at
MacLevin's, we have made community service an integral part in the
daily life of our business so that the community we are a part of
evolves and flourishes.