Waterville Horizons Community Connections board April, 2011

The Waterville Horizons Community Connections board met at the Singing Hills Coffee Shop in Waterville on Mon., April 11th at 10 a.m. Present were Cindy Kennedy, facilitator; Karen Bauer, blog recorder; Diane Munson, Friends of the Waterville Library rep; Bev Brown, Barrels of Hope rep.
There was discussion on several matters, including: flower watering; need for youth community center; need for alternate areas for library activities; area for a firepit for youth, possibly by the Episcopal church; it’s use by boy and girl scouts. No action was taken on these ideas.
We discussed Bullhead Days, coming up in June. Cindy has talked to Jay Schneider, and we will have an area to set up on the corner of Main and 3rd St. S., same area as last year. We would like to have all our committees represented there, with posters, pictures, and information. Cindy has a canopy we can set up to provide shade, and we will have tables and chairs there for workers.
(For further discussion: We will have to set up a work schedule so someone is at the “booth” during the 3 day weekend. We should have donation containers for WCC, Library, and the Barrels of Hope. Books for sale from the library, as well as brochures, that are in the works, for the FOL. How about a suggestion box for ideas for projects in the city and area? We should also have some giveaways for kids, or a sign up box for donated prizes. Sign up sheets for people interested in helping with downtown flowers and for membership or interest in the WCC projects. Possibly members could have some prizes, purchased or “white elephant” items from home or business. Suggestions: a book from the library, an item from “Barrels”, a gift certificate donated by a member of WCC, etc. This all needs to be co-ordinated and set up to look nice and make us look neat, busy and helpful….Just some mind streaming here by the blogger.)
Community garden, not much info, but later I talked to Jane Cummiskey and she is willing to help keep this project going. We were wondering what our vision is for the garden, renting out spaces, doing all the work and donating the produce? We will discuss this further at the next downtown beautification meeting.
We discussed general fund raising, and there are grants available from SMIF that Jane mentioned in an email to us, so we will pursue that at the Downtown Beautification meeting later this week. There are grants for economic development and early childhood development. We agreed there is a need in the economic development area here and had ideas for business ventures.
Meeting concluded.