Montrose, SD

Our second planning meeting went very well.  After an excellent meal, we were ready to create our objectives for the goals that were set at the first planning meeting.  Our goals were written based on community input from the study circles, leadership training, and the kick-off event.  The goals for our Montrose community include:  To improve the appearance of Montrose, to encourage growth in Montrose, to provide more opportunities for all Montrose-area residents, and to promote community spirit.

Our community shown here is putting together the objectives to improve the appearance of our town.  Some of those objectives include improving the park area and picnic shelter, work toward the completion of the biking/walking trail, and exploring the possibilities of giving the main street of Montrose a “facelift” - including the removal of vacant buildings.

We look forward to expanding these goals and objectives to include the implementation procedures.  Working together, we will realize our goals!

It was great to see more than 80 people show up this Sunday for the Kick-off Event of our last phase of Horizons. We had a great meal (thanks Irish Pub crew!!), an update on the Horizons project to date in Montrose, reports from our four action areas following the study circles, and an explanation of where we go from here.

 Better yet, we saw some new faces at the meeting and had some great new people sign up for the planning meetings coming up in October and November. It will be great to get the insight from a great mix of people. Thanks to everyone who came and helped make it successful. Thanks, too, to Martha, our Community Coordinator, for giving a good rundown of what’s to take place next and helping us stay on track!

 A big ‘thanks’ to our steering committee for their willingness to dig in and get this done, and to Dean, our school superintendent, for chipping in and helping set up and take down. As someone famous once said: “It takes a community….”

Amy was busy taking photos of the event with our new Horizons camera, so check back soon to see the Kick-off in action.