Publisher’s Note
We encourage you to “shop local” this holiday season: to support Jacksonville and the Beaches’ terrific locally owned businesses that make up the identity of our communities. Spend $100 in a chain store and only $14 goes back into the local economy. But spend $100 at a locally owned business and $45 goes back – so shopping at local businesses is a bonus for your community. In this issue, we bring you twenty pages filled with gifting ideas from some of our area’s best locally-owned businesses.