What's New
May 2013
Last Friday I received a call from the
new CEO of the Naperville Chamber of Commerce, Mike Evans. He informed me that
the Anderson Family had been selected as this years recipient of the Chamber’s
Lifetime Achievement Award. I think my response was something like Wow! Really?
He assured me that they had indeed selected our family.
After hanging up I began to reflect on
our families ties to our wonderful town. My great-great grandfather W.W. Wickel
began our heritage in Naperville in the late 1870s. He was followed by Louis
Oswald who bought the store in 1915, followed by my grandfather Harold Kester
in 1952 and then my dad Bob Anderson in 1977. Each generation left its mark on
the business, but more importantly also left a legacy of community involvement
that has helped Naperville grow and prosper. Our family is humbled and grateful to the
Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce to be selected for the award. For six
generations our family has had the extraordinary opportunity to do business in
our hometown of Naperville. We have endured through good times and bad thanks
to the wonderful support of this community and its citizens. Being involved in
Naperville is our way of giving back and thanking a community who has given so
much. We thank the Chamber, its staff and
most of all our customers who have supported our business for over 135 years.
