Business View Magazine | June 2019

356 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 Community Development Director adds, “As a transplant, I’m envious of people who have lived in this community all their lives. It is just that great. It is everything that you want within a community. We thought we would be going to St. Louis on a regular basis; we get to St. Louis two or three times a year if we need anything. It’s just that type of place - great people, great institutions.” “We’re a wonderful place to live and to raise a family,” Patton says in conclusion. “We’re a very family-oriented town. We have great people here, great neighbors, the kind of community that you open and hold the door for one another and greet people that you don’t even know at the grocery store. We don’t have a beautiful beach or islands, we don’t have mountains, but we do make it very comfortable for individuals to live here and feel safe and we have a really strong education system, as well. Those are the kind of things I think make Edwardsville a comfortable place to move to, and a place where people want to stay.” PREFERRED VENDORS n Gori Julian & Associates, P.C www.gorijulianlaw.com n Whispering Heights www.whispering-heights.com