Activate Hope

As part of Lakeside's Activate Hope initiative, we've requested nominations for local businesses so we can recognize them and activate hope around us.

As our business-owner friends, family, and neighbors have journeyed and struggled through this pandemic, they’ve exemplified creativity, flexibility, and endurance. And, remarkably, many have even shown how to activate hope around them, despite their own struggles.

Orangevale Print & Copy is one such business. On Greenback Lane, and just about half a mile from the Folsom border, Orangevale Print & Copy has been in business for about thirty years. Owner Michelle Famestad says the pandemic “pulled the rug out from under them” since much of their business centered on jobs for events, schools, and Little League. Despite their own hardships, Michelle organized a fundraiser and printed T-shirts, sweatshirts, and stickers with all the proceeds going to the Orangevale Chamber of Commerce and the Orangevale Food Bank.

 The company has always been community focused, offering special pricing to its nonprofit customers—churches, charities, and youth sports leagues. Even with the challenges brought on by the pandemic, Orangevale Print & Copy has continued to offer those discounts and tried to innovate products that are helpful to the community, such as banners and yard signs for graduating seniors.

 Michelle has a soft spot for her customers, 90 percent of whom are repeat customers. “We know our customers on a first-name basis. They’ve always supported us so we do our best to support them as well,” she said.

 Whether providing free graphic design for struggling businesses or brainstorming with her customers on how to fulfill a job as cost effectively as possible, Michelle and her staff at Orangevale Print & Copy beautifully illustrate how to activate hope within our community.

“Our focus during this last year has been staying afloat while helping the community at the same time,” Michele said.