Congratulations, Fertile!
After 18 months of planning, organizing, great conversations, and hard work, your work plan is complete! Click the link below to find details of the Horizons Team organizational plans, focus areas, and projects. It has been great seeing the projects. The flowers are looking great and I can’t wait to play frisbee golf! Great work!
This week we showed the Youth Council video to all 8th & 9th grade students in Mr. Solie’s class, 7th graders in Mrs. Burke’s class, and 10 & 11th graders in Mr. Steffes’ class. Stacey Morvig, along with Tyler Rice & Kassidy Lehman, created the video in Mrs. Halvorson’s Advance Comm class. We showed the video and asked the students to take a survey to let us know if they think we should start a Fertile Youth Council and what types of changes they’d like to see here. We got a lot of really awesome surveys from those classes and great ideas to move forward with. A Youth Council would be a great way for the youth of Fertile to get involved with their community and create more opportunity for Youth here!
Happy New Year! A new year, new ideas, and a new regular meeting schedule.
The Horizons Team met at Deevine Dining on Wednesday, January 23. The goal of this meeting was to connect with eachother and connect ideas for the seperate future squads, as well as setting regular meeting times. Squads had outlined objectives previous to this meeting at individual meetings.Each group reported on squad goals and progress of current projects.
The three “Future Squads” are: 1. Vibrant Downtown, 2. Welcoming/Hospitality, 3. Events, Recreation and Youth. The vibrant downtown squad is working on planning for a city wide art festival inclusive of all ages, types of work and with all businesses involved. The welcoming squad is finishing up plans for welcome baskets to be in place when anyone new arrives.(If anyone would like to contribute any goods or services please post a comment and we will contact you) The event, recreation, and youth squad is working with the city on making the city website all inclusive of all aspects of Fertile (businesses, things to do, places to stay and eat, churches, education, etc.). Squads discussed timelines if any and mentioned if they would be needing funds for any of their plans.
There was a unanimous sense of progress, good use of time and support for the various work being accomplished.
The next meeting will be at Deevine dining in Fertile @ 6 PM, Tuesday February 19.