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About Love Local

Celebrating the heart of Lake County.

A community movement to help the businesses that make the Mission Valley not just survive, but thrive.

POLSON · MTTHE VALLEY
Our story
You can't support a business you don't know exists.

Love Local Lake County is a community initiative highlighting the local businesses, events, and organizations across the valley.

Through seasonal campaigns like the Shop Hop, community highlights, and shared promotion, we turn online engagement into real-world visits, one stamp, one shop, one neighbor at a time.

— Jessica & the Love Local team
Why it matters
When we lift local, the whole valley rises.

Discover

Shine a light on the shops that make the valley worth exploring.

Support

Keep our dollars, jobs, and character right here at home.

Grow

Build a year-round movement, not just a once-a-season event.

More than a campaign
What's next.

The Shop Hop is the big, exciting event, but the work doesn't stop there. Year-round, Love Local features a business of the month, shares the shops worth knowing, and grows a community of locals who put their dollars where their heart is.

Who's behind it

Love Local is a project of Positively Unabashed Events & Creations, Jessica Dauterive's Polson-based community marketing and creative studio. Helping Montana shops, nonprofits, and neighbors get seen is her everyday work, and Love Local is where it goes community-wide. Same belief behind all of it: when we lift local, we all rise.

Join the movement
Be part of it.

Get the next hop, featured businesses, and ways to support local, straight to your inbox.

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