The Fresno City & County Convention & Visitors Bureau is partnering with The Fresno Bee and Decipher to find out your perceptions of our community.
For years, the Fresno Area has lived in the shadow of the larger metro areas in Northern and Southern California. Often, mislabeled as a "cultural desert," it's time to figure out what we are good at and tout it to the World. But first we want to get the pulse of the community. It's important that we are honest about who we are. Do we have issues that we need to overcome? Certainly. But we also have assets.
- What are your favorite things about living here?
- What do you brag about?
- When friends and family visit, where do you take them?
The survey will be up only for a short time, so please take the survey today to give us your opinion.
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This was harder than I thought. Fresno seems like home because my parents live here. Them and an uninterupted education for my children through high school, are the only reasons I stay. It was hard to think of anything else that I like. I like the summer evenings, hot summer days spent in a pool, lake or stream. The Fresno State Library. It bothers me that I have no other attachments to Fresno than that. I have no perceptions of Fresno at all which may be worse than a bad one. I'm going to spend the next few months taking a hard look at Fresno and see if there is anything I like or could brag about. I hate apathy and my feelings seem apathetic. I will correct that.
1.Tri-tip and Boysenberry pie 2.Tri-tip and Boysenberry pie 3.Anywhere in the Sierra Nevada.
Watermelon and a bunch of children (or kids at heart) for a hell raising seed spitting contest. Ditto on the Sierra but with a tent, a campfire, and fire roasted hot dogs and stories, lots of stories.
Contests "spitting watermelon seeds" is indigineous to "cultural deserts". How do you compete with a swineflu mask over the spitter?
Not by any means Isabell. It is indigenous to societies that revel in good clean fun. Many watermelon seed spitting champions, myself included, frequent the Met, the symphony, all stage productions, and have a lifetime membership to freely use all CSU libraries. You my dear are a victim of a life void of seed spitting. Come over, we'll have you laughing till your sides split. As for the mask... seed spitters are the salt of the earth, we don't fear nature, we deal with it and move on. Strength and orneriness get us through.
I enjoyed the very humorously authored post. But I still find nothing clean and wholesome about spitting. So , I shall have to face my maker deprived of spitting things out of my mouth for entertainment. Some camel spit at me once. Propbably the beast was part of a spitting contest without the watermelon seeds.
Be careful that your pride does not shelter you from humanity. Seeing a child compete to shoot a watermelon seed farther than the rest is about as clean and wholesome as life gets. It does not make them any less than those who chose not to compete. Adults who wish to revel with a child in fun have no less class than those who refuse.