Action Items Identified during the Study Circles Phase of the Rochester Horizons Project

• Rochester Horizons Project
  
  Action Items Identified during the Study Circles Phase of the Rochester Horizons Project
  
  Create community theme Experience Rochester (As a group – discover what Rochester has to offer.) Home based business, etc.
  History & resources
  Recreational opportunities that currently exist
  Organizations
  
  Compile findings and update Resource Book
  Newspaper (but here)
  Contribute for existing newspaper
  Distribute via website, electronic newsletter, visitor center, signage, community information fair, existing newspaper
  Pictorial history @ visitors center/Historical center
  School Admin (the existing) building for visitor/Historical center
  Use of school facilities for education about community issues
  Theater – Movie/Stage
  Burma shave type “Welcome to community” signs
  Concert in the park
  Arcade
  Something interactive to incorporate community history
  Bike trail/walking trail
  Sidewalks & road shoulders
  Combine college & Library center
  Farmers market/business fair
  Collaborate with schools/grub
  Collaborate with community center (ROOF, Library, groups)
  HIEFER Project (commercialize Swede Hall kitchen)
  Youth & Senior Citizens involvement
  Mentoring Church action groups
  
  o Adult mentoring
  
  o Parenting
  
  o Cooking/baking
  
  o Outdoor activities
  
  o Building repairs to Swede Hall
  
  Business listing (Billboard)
  Bartering Co-op
  Bus system
  Satellite system for services – DSHS,, etc .,senior, college, feed banks, & counseling
  Continued diligence against illegal drugs
  Community signage (where things are, ie, parks, Lucky Eagle, freeway)
  Electronic newsletter
  Singles club
  Resource training/education liaison
  Center to include satellite offices for DSHS, Work Source, Food Banks, Senior & College counseling, Social Security)
  Farmers market/business fair
  Safety
  Workshops for ethic education
  Return of WIC to Rochester
  Personal invitation helps build relationships to gain more involvement by other people
  Build volunteer base for Library
  Neighborhood watch
  Buy locally
  Resource/exchange (helping those who are hurting but don’t show it outwardly)
  Involve high school students in community activities
  Low-cost meals and additional state support for schools that pass levies
  Entrepreneurship fair to educate people about potential apprenticeship programs
  Local senior center has only 6 to 11 people show up for “senior meals”
  Personal invitation helps build relationships to gain more involvement by other people
  Community forum on “work ethic work-shop”
  “Cash flow for Kids” game as a means of teaching financial responsibility
  Make Rochester the Folk Dancing capitol of Washington State using Swede Hall as the focal point.
  GIS partnership to train kids to be analysts
  Fire department to use GIS for their trucks on way to a fire
  We need to adopt a mission statement to incorporate technology teachings into the community
  
  o Block Watch
  o Involve middle school students and staff in some activity at the park
  o Small groups needed to start “lending Circle”
  o Discrimination - age, language culture etc.
  o Unite various community groups
  o New businesses/grow existing businesses
  o Grow local jobs
  o Guide local growth
  o Art Tours
  o Increase volunteerism
  o Community pride - Flag at Post Office not displayed on holidays and other times
  o Use of schools for community events
  o Rochester Leadership
  o Resource case-worker training
  o Visitors Historical Center type of central information resource
  
  Additional Things we can do to increase our ability to convince people/groups to invest in our community!
  
  o Build a resume of successful small projects
  o Keep track of volunteer hours on community projects which can then be used as matching funds
  o Look at an organizational structure that will form the basis of getting started