Citizens’ Voices Minutes
August 8, 2007
Present: Malda, Tom, Mike,
David E., Tony, Dave B., Jeanne
What an adventure we had
today! I arrived early at Coffee Hag to discover a note on the door, Today we
will open at 8:30. Shortly afterwards Tony (on bicycle), Tom, Mike & David
E. also arrived. We made a decision that we would adjourn to the Wagon Wheel.
Since the Hag's sign was taped to the outside of the door, Tom added a message
on the bottom where we were going.
We get there to discover
that it is closed for vacation. (Tony arrived about the same time as the rest
of us in cars.) We then decided to go to the Fillin
Station. Tom wrote a message on a sheet the stuck it in the door & we were
off.
Amazingly Dave B. &
Jeanne found us there. Our apologies to others who got lost
on the way.
Echoes From the Valley - a
great start with the meeting at
The residents were very
interested and 12 volunteered to be interviewed.
Many thank you's to the management who prepared the residents for the
visit.
This first set of interviews
would not happen without the active support of the management of the facility.
These people have wonderful
stories, though with time strictly speaking they may not be completely true. If
they are not, they are so good they should be.
(A Dakota medicine was
teaching the boys the tribe's history from creation.
He told them that he might
not have all the facts right but the story is
true.)
These interviews will be the
subset, Echoes
From the Edge.
The web site is
MNSU.edu/echoes.
The archiving issues is not yet completely resolved. Mainly the format and
the process remain to be finalized.
Mike, David & KMSU will
meet one more time to each consensus on the name.
2020 - at
last it is falling into place. The leadership is in place for the community to continue
this project/process. The next meeting of the Implementation Committee is set
for September 19, 3-5PM.
Dave & the Forum group
have set the next meeting for September 20. The topic is Single Pager Health
Care for All. One of the speakers will be from the Mayo Clinic.
October 18th topic is
"How Do We Deal With the Abuse of Power."
November 15th topic is
"Greening of the Valley". Tom Hagen is on the program.
Later in February or March
the program will be on "do we want to keep the electoral
college system?"
Another topic is on
neighborhood formation.