Style Magazine Folsom El Dorado Hills: October 2019
Fifteen years ago, we produced our first Readers’ Choice Awards issue, which was the community’s opportunity to vote on who they believe is the best. It is the single most read and referenced issue we produce each year and we owe a very special group of people special thanks for making this issue happen–you, our readers! Thousands of readers cast more than 120,000 votes for local businesses and organizations this year. It’s hard to believe how much this contest has grown and how much it means to the winners and to the readers who source this issue (both in print and online) when making all types of buying decisions every day. We are proud to say that our Readers’ Choice Awards is the largest awards contest of its type in the Sacramento region. What’s most important to our readers is knowing their votes count, we don’t choose winners because they are advertisers. We don’t choose the winners at all. This is truly a contest voted on by the readers alone. We want to take this opportunity to let you know how much we appreciate your readership and support of STYLE. And for all the winners who chose to say “thank you” for voting for them by placing an ad in our special section, well, we very much thank you, too! Congrats to each and every one of you! — All the Best, Terry Carroll & Wendy Sipple Publishers
Fifteen years ago, we produced our first Readers’ Choice Awards issue, which was the community’s opportunity to vote on who they believe is the best. It is the single most read and referenced issue we produce each year and we owe a very special group of people special thanks for making this issue happen–you, our readers!
Thousands of readers cast more than 120,000 votes for local businesses and organizations this year. It’s hard to believe how much this contest has grown and how much it means to the winners and to the readers who source this issue (both in print and online) when making all types of buying decisions every day. We are proud to say that our Readers’ Choice Awards is the largest awards contest of its type in the Sacramento region. What’s most important to our readers is knowing their votes count, we don’t choose winners because they are advertisers. We don’t choose the winners at all. This is truly a contest voted on by the readers alone.
We want to take this opportunity to let you know how much we appreciate your readership and support of STYLE. And for all the winners who chose to say “thank you” for voting for them by placing an ad in our special section, well, we very much thank you, too! Congrats to each and every one of you!
— All the Best,
Terry Carroll & Wendy Sipple
Publishers
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| arts & entertainment |<br />
HLN: HOW DID YOU CREATE THE VYBE<br />
CONCEPT?<br />
JB: VYBE started as a challenge to staff at Lakeside<br />
Church to do something that would inspire and<br />
encourage our community, and so the original<br />
group of three or four people started dreaming<br />
about the project. We all love music and the idea of<br />
a <strong>Folsom</strong> area compilation album quickly jumped<br />
to the top of our list. Then someone mentioned the<br />
idea of an album release party and the idea for VYBE<br />
was formed. Knowing we had to assemble some key<br />
community influencers, we invited several more<br />
onto the team. The energy at that first meeting was<br />
electric!<br />
HLN: HOW ARE YOU COLLABORATING<br />
WITH TWIN LAKES FOOD BANK?<br />
JB: We knew there had to be more purpose than<br />
just music—we also needed to give back to our<br />
community. Twin Lakes has a mission to nourish<br />
lives in our community and that’s a mission we<br />
could all support. They do this by providing basic<br />
needs of nutritious food and social assistance—while<br />
VYBE [carries out a similar mission] through the<br />
inspiration of the arts. We hope that through this<br />
partnership, there will be hundreds, if not thousands,<br />
of lives made better because of the resources raised.<br />
HLN: CAN YOU SHARE MORE EVENT<br />
DETAILS?<br />
JB: The evening at Harris Center kicks off with a<br />
VIP dinner provided by longtime <strong>Folsom</strong> staple,<br />
Visconti’s. There will be vendors and sponsors<br />
outside and in the lobby including album sales,<br />
VYBE merchandise, and photo opportunities, with<br />
every single dollar in profit going directly to Twin<br />
Lakes. The concert will then be held in the main<br />
auditorium featuring 10 bands throughout the<br />
evening.<br />
HLN: IN WHAT WAYS DO YOU HOPE TO<br />
NOURISH THE WHOLE COMMUNITY?<br />
JB: When you buy your ticket to VYBE you are<br />
supporting not only the music and the arts, but also<br />
the food bank. While the music will be diverse, the<br />
purpose is unified. We hope this sentiment is shared<br />
throughout all aspects of the event and that the<br />
album will be a reminder of that unity. Even bigger,<br />
VYBE wants to display what our little community is<br />
capable of when we work together. It doesn’t take a<br />
large corporation or millions to make a difference in<br />
the world—all it takes is using the resources that you<br />
have and giving them to others.<br />
folsomvybe.com<br />
(Top to bottom) Eazy Dub,<br />
Platinum Cake, Jessica<br />
Malone, Short Trip<br />
Photos courtesy of <strong>Folsom</strong> VYBE.<br />
44 stylemg.com | OCTOBER <strong>2019</strong> | /stylemg /stylemediagroup /stylemediagroup /stylemags
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