New Lo Sto owners Cecily and John Mathis noticed a need in the Eagle Lake community after buying a camp there a few years ago.

There were so many great people, John said, but nowhere for everyone to congregate outside of their own homes.

“There wasn’t really anywhere to go,” John said. “There was a country store, but if you wanted a hamburger, you had to drive 15 to 20 miles or cook it yourself. There wasn’t really anywhere to go for social purposes or you had to create it yourself.”

The Mathis family decided to take matters into their own hands and fulfill that need, buying an old, historic building and turning it into Lo Sto, a sports bar and restaurant.

Now Eagle Lake residents and visitors can come by and grab a drink or a burger and play pool or darts while enjoying the company of others in the community, many they may not have met otherwise.

“We have met some of the most wonderful people,” Cecily said. “They’re people we wouldn’t have met if we didn’t have all this. We have our own little circle of people we dealt with, but since we opened this, we’ve realized there’s a lot more good people out here at Eagle Lake.”

Lo Sto is an example of what two determined entrepeneurs can accomplish if they set their minds to it.

The couple had never owned their own business, but they, like many other area business owners, saw a need in their community, and they set out to do something about it.

Sometimes you can’t just wait on someone else to act, but rather, you must be that catalyst for change in your community. All it takes is one person to do something great.

We applaud the Mathis family on this venture and wish them and the new Lo Sto many years of success and good fortune.