🌱 How Mount Vernon hopes to score big from World Cup visitors
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- How Mount Vernon hopes to score big from World Cup visitors
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📰 News we're reading
• World Cup windfall? Skagit businesses bet on overflow tourism (king5.com) — Mount Vernon is gearing up to welcome World Cup visitors, with Mayor Peter Donovan touting downtown as a hub for fans exploring Skagit Valley between Seattle and Vancouver. Local businesses and tourism leaders are banking on overflow crowds, adding big screens, extra seating, and soccer-themed signs to draw travelers off I‑5 and into local shops and restaurants. 
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