02-04-2025
Remarkable Women: Meet your 2025 winner!
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — During Women's History Month in March, WesternSlopeNow introduced you to four remarkable women living on the Western Slope who make our community a wonderful place to live. We asked you to nominate outstanding women on the Western Slope for an award — one of those submissions stood out the most.
Tonya Maddox is this year's Remarkable Woman.
Tonya Maddox is the founder and CEO of Our Town Matters, a marketing, PR and events firm that works with small and mid-sized businesses.
'This is America and entrepreneurship is something to be valued and put on a pedestal,' Maddox said.
Our Town Matters has worked with about 45 total companies over the last seven years, most of them on the Western Slope.
'It has been the most rewarding experience ever.'
She is also the founder and publisher of the Montrose Business Times.
'Publishing and journalism is in my blood. And it is something I haven't been able to get away from. So my history is when newspapers are in trouble, they call me.'
Maddox says Our Town Matters has allowed her to help businesses in ways she never thought possible, especially during COVID.
'There were five of us that got together and said, we're going to create this program that would put revenue back into restaurants and allow people to still go out and enjoy meals, whether it's out there in the restaurant with limited capacity or to take home. And this little group of ours, we raised, I think, a quarter of a million dollars, and all of that went back to restaurants… It's more than marketing, PR and events, it's just it's… it's a culture.'
Maddox tells WesternSlopeNow her favorite part of Our Town Matters is its impact on the businesses it serves.
'When we find that business that said you made a difference, I wouldn't be here three years later, five years later, or whatever… that just means a lot to me.'
Maddox says being named Remarkable Woman has inspired her.
'All I want to continue to do is to recognize other people, to help businesses, to make a difference in my community. And this has given me like, I don't know, this energizer pill to keep doing that for another nine years, and then another nine years, and another nine years.'
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