Richland County-wide conference was start of process - Economic survey offered to area residents

March 30, 2008

The conference ended. The boards, the slides, were torn down. But the information on those boards, the numerous stickers of community members names pushed on the board containing what part of the community's health is most important to them, even the remarks made during each of the discussions and round tables, they have not been packed away. And they have certainly not been forgotten.

Currently, the men and women of Richland County's http://www.richland.org/ Health Department, including the hard-working AmeriCorps VISTAs, have made a database containing the names of all the people and what area of the community they would be willing to volunteer to help better and change our community and give it a strong future.

"We won't be gathering the troops until we have compiled all the information from the conference," Communities in Action [CIA] director Melissa Boyer said.

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(Many thanks to Ray Trumpower for passing this along. Russ)

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Economic survey offered to area residents

By Bill Vander Weele

Sidney Herald

The Richland Economic Development hopes the public is interested in providing its input for the area's economic future.

Leslie Messer, executive director for Richland Economic Development, says the idea of a survey came about when Dave Reetz, developer in Powell, Wyo., visited Sidney in February. Reetz served as the keynote speaker for the Sidney Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture banquet. "One of his suggestions was to get a pulse of the community for what we need," Messer said.

Individuals can answer the questions for the survey by logging on to http://www.richlandeconomicdevelopment.com and click on 2008 survey.

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