The R.M. of Wallace-Woodworth has recently created Community Action Reports for the Local Urban Districts of Elkhorn and Kenton, and the settlement centre of Kola. Council is now looking for three to seven energetic, positive, community-builders from each centre to form steering committees. These committees will work with staff and Council to implement the recommendations for community improvements.
The three Community Action Reports were created because of the Wallace-Woodworth Wants to Know… community engagement project. The community engagement efforts included zoom focus groups, surveys, interviews, requests for artwork, and community vision workshops. The entire community engagement initiative was built on three questions: What do we want to preserve? What do we want to change? And what do we want to create? These questions provided a vision for what each community wants to achieve in the next 20 years.
Each Community Action Report is unique but has recommendations in the general categories of getting organized, promotions and branding, supporting volunteerism, supporting art and history, beautification, business growth and housing, recreation, and infrastructure.
Volunteers on each steering committee will need to be collaborative and work with existing organizations towards the community vision.
Empire-Advance will provide detailed coverage of the reports prepared for the three communities in future issues.
Anyone interested in reading the Community Action Reports or submitting their expression of interest for being appointed to a steering committee can visit the Wallace-Woodworth website and search for “Wallace-Woodworth wants to know.”
