Showing posts with label Leadership: Awareness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leadership: Awareness. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Grand Mound Rochester Horizons
May I remind you to keep a log of the hours you spend on any of the Horizons projects. These should be e-mailed to me ( waliddle@msn.com ) at the end of each month for our records. Many grants require a certain percentage of the total project funding to come from the local community. Each of your "in-kind" hours provide approximately $20.00 toward this local project funding when applying for many grants. You may download and print a log form by going to this website: http://www.rochester-wa.com/horizons_time_Sheet.htm
Monday, June 29, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Rochester Horizons Project "Visioning Event" Luncheon
************Mark your calendar***********
What:
1st Annual Rochester Community Potluck & BBQ!
Where:
Rochester Community Center Courtyard
(Old Primary School on Hwy 12)
When:
June 14, (right after church) @ 1-3pm
Hosts:
Rochester Water Assoc., Horizons & WSU
Menu:
Pulled BBQ pork, Shredded BBQ chicken provided.
YUMMY!
Bring your potluck dish and brainstorming ideas,
as there will be a short presentation of Rochester area improvement possibilities.
Help choose area projects to participate in.
YOUR INPUT IS NEEDED AND VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!
For more information: 273– 0707
Grand Mound-Rochester.blogspot.com
What:
1st Annual Rochester Community Potluck & BBQ!
Where:
Rochester Community Center Courtyard
(Old Primary School on Hwy 12)
When:
June 14, (right after church) @ 1-3pm
Hosts:
Rochester Water Assoc., Horizons & WSU
Menu:
Pulled BBQ pork, Shredded BBQ chicken provided.
YUMMY!
Bring your potluck dish and brainstorming ideas,
as there will be a short presentation of Rochester area improvement possibilities.
Help choose area projects to participate in.
YOUR INPUT IS NEEDED AND VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!
For more information: 273– 0707
Grand Mound-Rochester.blogspot.com
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Rochester Community Gardens
A Short History of the Rochester Community Gardens Project By Bill Liddle (May 5, 2009)
While manning the Grand Mound Rochester Park Association (GMRPA) booth during the Swede Day Festival last June, I was approached by Rochelle, a staff member of GRUB, (Garden Raised Bounty). GRUB is a non-profit group based in Olympia, Washington that is promoting organic gardening. She asked me if GMRPA would help them establish a community garden project in our park in Rochester. GRUB had a grant, which would provide materials to construct the garden plots.
Rochelle felt the GMRPA Park in Rochester was the most desirable location because of being near the center of town and several mobile home parks nearby with numerous low-income people. My initial response was it was a noble idea but I didn’t think it could happen. There were two prime obstacles that needed to be overcome: water availability and the fact the park was on land owned by the Rochester School District. We, GMRPA, had been totally unsuccessful in trying to convince the School District Maintenance supervisor to allow us to install an outside faucet so we could water the trees and shrubs we were wanting to plant in the park.
I did arrange for her to make a presentation to the GMRPA board of directors and also invited the maintenance supervisor to be present. We discussed the many hurdles that would need to be addressed. All agreed it was a fantastic idea that should be explored further. The maintenance supervisor agreed to present the idea to the school board for their decision. Most of us were quite surprised when the answer came back with their approval of the project.
Within a short time period other organizations were brought into the discussions and a collation of eight agencies was formed consisting of GRUB (Garden Raised Bounty), ROOF, WSU/Master Gardeners, Rising River Farm, 4H, the Rochester School District and the Rochester Water Association with the Grand Mound Rochester Park Association as the lead organization. The mission statement for this project is to “Provide help to people with limited space to grow their own vegetables.” An additional goal is to provide assistance in the form of education about how to grow, prepare for eating and to preserve for later use the vegetables from these garden plots.
On a Friday and Saturday in November a crew of local community members and GRUB workers gathered to construct nine 4 x 8 foot plots for wheelchair-bound individuals and thirteen 8 x 8 foot plots which were then filled with soil.
Fencing materials have been purchased to enclose the garden plot area. Gardening tools have been purchased and will be available for use by those who sign up for the plots and two water faucets have been installed. A shed to store the tools in will be built prior to the spring garden season.
On Friday, February 13th several individuals from the collation, community members, potential gardeners, and Hart High School students gathered to place “hog fuel” in between the garden plots to reduce weed growth and give us a clean surface to walk on. Additional work parties will be formed to install the fence and build the shed. On April 25th five of us gathered to build the 8 foot by 8 foot garden tool storage building. It is now complete except for painting and placing the shingles on the roof, which will be done as weather permits. The fencing materials previously purchased, are waiting on good weather to be installed.
The people who have signed up for the garden plots have been low-income individual except for one person who will raise vegetables to be given to the area food banks. This is the first of many more projects planned to help reduce poverty in the Grand Mound Rochester area.
While manning the Grand Mound Rochester Park Association (GMRPA) booth during the Swede Day Festival last June, I was approached by Rochelle, a staff member of GRUB, (Garden Raised Bounty). GRUB is a non-profit group based in Olympia, Washington that is promoting organic gardening. She asked me if GMRPA would help them establish a community garden project in our park in Rochester. GRUB had a grant, which would provide materials to construct the garden plots.
Rochelle felt the GMRPA Park in Rochester was the most desirable location because of being near the center of town and several mobile home parks nearby with numerous low-income people. My initial response was it was a noble idea but I didn’t think it could happen. There were two prime obstacles that needed to be overcome: water availability and the fact the park was on land owned by the Rochester School District. We, GMRPA, had been totally unsuccessful in trying to convince the School District Maintenance supervisor to allow us to install an outside faucet so we could water the trees and shrubs we were wanting to plant in the park.
I did arrange for her to make a presentation to the GMRPA board of directors and also invited the maintenance supervisor to be present. We discussed the many hurdles that would need to be addressed. All agreed it was a fantastic idea that should be explored further. The maintenance supervisor agreed to present the idea to the school board for their decision. Most of us were quite surprised when the answer came back with their approval of the project.
Within a short time period other organizations were brought into the discussions and a collation of eight agencies was formed consisting of GRUB (Garden Raised Bounty), ROOF, WSU/Master Gardeners, Rising River Farm, 4H, the Rochester School District and the Rochester Water Association with the Grand Mound Rochester Park Association as the lead organization. The mission statement for this project is to “Provide help to people with limited space to grow their own vegetables.” An additional goal is to provide assistance in the form of education about how to grow, prepare for eating and to preserve for later use the vegetables from these garden plots.
On a Friday and Saturday in November a crew of local community members and GRUB workers gathered to construct nine 4 x 8 foot plots for wheelchair-bound individuals and thirteen 8 x 8 foot plots which were then filled with soil.
Fencing materials have been purchased to enclose the garden plot area. Gardening tools have been purchased and will be available for use by those who sign up for the plots and two water faucets have been installed. A shed to store the tools in will be built prior to the spring garden season.
On Friday, February 13th several individuals from the collation, community members, potential gardeners, and Hart High School students gathered to place “hog fuel” in between the garden plots to reduce weed growth and give us a clean surface to walk on. Additional work parties will be formed to install the fence and build the shed. On April 25th five of us gathered to build the 8 foot by 8 foot garden tool storage building. It is now complete except for painting and placing the shingles on the roof, which will be done as weather permits. The fencing materials previously purchased, are waiting on good weather to be installed.
The people who have signed up for the garden plots have been low-income individual except for one person who will raise vegetables to be given to the area food banks. This is the first of many more projects planned to help reduce poverty in the Grand Mound Rochester area.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Presentation to the Grand Mound Rochester Citizen's Group
The Rochester Horizons Project program outline was presented to the GRAND MOUND ROCHESTER CITIZEN'S GROUP at their meeting Tuesday evening the 10th of March.
It is hoped this group will agree to join the Rochester Horizons Project as a partner. They are already a 501 c (3) organization with a mission of improving the Rochester and surrounding community.
It is hoped this group will agree to join the Rochester Horizons Project as a partner. They are already a 501 c (3) organization with a mission of improving the Rochester and surrounding community.
Monday, March 9, 2009
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
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
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