“Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.”
— Henry Ford

Building Local and Regional Networks (Saturday AM)

Participants

Facilitator/Scribe: Jerelyn and Cindy

Lynn Barrett Jared Flynn
Charles Ranney Paul Stone
Bill McKim Christie Herbert
Larry Cassidy Melanie Chamberlin


1) Create regional Vision to Action “Y2C” group
To convene 2 x yr event
ID Dummerston people who are already connected
Connect to already existing event—Grange supper

2) Communication—Coordination of
ID what we have:
Handbook
Dumm Views
Websites
Calendar
Sending out Press Releases
Assess what we have and ID ways to enhance and make more effective

3) Promote Dummerston events
Build on existing events
Arts
Tradespeople
Create new ones


Problems

We don’t know what exists—inventory of local/regional assets and services
Need set of criteria to prioritize actions and/or to determine what is local and regional
How to use regional services and maintain local assets

Regional

Legislature
Economic community
Economy of scale
Making ties
How do we get to our goals
Where to connect to existing resources:
Local
Regional
State, national
Membership in larger community
Retaining Dummerston identity
In context of greater community
What do we provide for the region?
Need to identify Dummerston (image) identity


Local Image

Expand local communication channels
Volunteer opportunities
Local activities
School curriculum
Services
Regional opportunities
Local events
Enhance pie festival
Arts—exhibits, performances
Local expo
Enhance Grange suppers
Expand Center area by including g town garage area
Trail system
Involve youth


Share with Region

Health care
Recreation
Transportation
Regional land use
Arts
Housing
Telecommunications
Education
Energy
Fulflex field
Mountain bike/ trails club
Integrate arts and crafts people with each other and parts of region Arts community—Dummerston Artisan Collaborative

Transportation—needs own group
ID people who are connected with regional effort
WRC—local commissions
Legislators event? Hamlet night?
Calendar—information—get word out
Dummerston reporter?
Nature walks with local naturalist
Hamlets: neighborhoods—enhance/identify
Town Picnic
Town dance
Organize the hamlets
Activities:
Monthly hamlet party

 
Low Feasibility
Moderate Feasibility
High Feasibility
High Impact •Intercommunication with hamlets working with rivers and mountain
• Expand preservation of hamlets
• Neighborhood suppers
• Town picnic
• Town dance
• Once-a-month hamlet party
• Identify hamlets • Organize hamlets		 Expand center
• Dummerston Artists collective
• Gallery
• Brining local aartists to regional groups—how to make and party regional arts community
• Expand apple pie festival —food and music functions
• Expand and promote grange events		 Expand local communication and awareness • Working on Dummerston calendar—get the world out • Who are already connecting us: WRC commissioners (Lew S. Roger Turner) • Create a group to move whole list forward regional commission • Transportation, create transportation council
Moderate Impact      
Low Impact      

Most of the stickies came off in a big clump that looked like it belonged in the lower right region, a bunch looked like topic headings. I just include them below:

Expand trail system & involve youth in natural world
Recreation: Mountain bike club trails and connecting trails
Involving youth in civic education engaging youth
Lobby for Dummerston Reporter
Preservation of lands, local and regional land use
Housing
Energy local communication
Not a local historic district
Church, grange, school or state historic district
Tourism:
Scott Farm
Landmark Trust
Kipling

Create a council to discuss with legislators
Invite legislators to Dummerston event—a regular event (Hamlet Night)
Lobby for Dummerston Reporter


Projects

1) Create/convene group to focus on “Regional Vision to Action”
a. ID people who are already on regional comities i.e. Windham Regional Commission
b. Bring locals together/connect with existing events
2) Coordinate and enhance communication within dummerston
a. ID what vehicles we have
b. ID ways to enhance and make more effective
c. Get more coverage in other media

3) Build in other activity to existing events and promote them better
a. Include art displays
b. Include tradespeople’s work, etc.