Closing Metal Monkey Brewing 'Probably The Right Call': Owners - Romeoville, IL - Dan Camp says closing the popular heavy metal brewery in August is a last resort but has been encouraged by Romeoville's community support.
Facebook Boost event helping GR businesses rebound efficiently
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IONIA, Mich. â After 15 months of lockdowns, many businesses that survived the pandemic have little time to waste in getting back to where they were before March 2020.
So to help, the city of Grand Rapids partnered with Facebook recently in hosting a âBoost with Facebookâ event, walking entrepreneurs through the most effective methods to reach potential customers.
Russ Oakley is the owner or Metal Monkey, a metal sign company that started in the Spring of 2018 out of Ionia.
He was invited to be part of the event, a free training for Grand Rapids small business owners. It taught Oakley and other business owners like him to determine who is most likely interested in his business and how to make his advertisement spending more efficient.
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Friends, fellow brewers, and restaurant and bar owners come together to help Skeleton Key Brewery after Sunday s tornado. (Emily Slayton)
WOODRIDGE, IL After a tornado damaged Skeleton Key Brewery in Woodridge Sunday, regular customers and members of the local brewing community banded together by donating their space, time and funds to help the beloved brewery. In the days immediately following the tornado, local brewers and bar and taproom owners bought out Skeleton Key Brewery s remaining beer, stored their raw materials, scheduled fundraisers, shared their facilities and offered food, hugs and moral support.
Emily Slayton, who co-owns Skeleton Key Brewery with her husband, Paul and brother, John Szopa, told Patch it s hard to put into words how grateful we are for the support we ve received since their world was turned upside down by Sunday s tornado.