This is the Week that Was
is giving all the Elmwood community an opportunity to help. Our community now consists of those in current residence, and those not present but here in spirit. We are a bigger town, than we think.
It was quite a week for everyone in Elmwood. It seems so much longer; Strawberry Festival seems almost a year ago. I attended five meetings in four days slept about four hours a night. I had to remove all my stuff from my office of ten years. Yes, I’m a pack rat. My life like so many others has changed. I can look back and remember how quiet, reflective, and beautiful it was to be in my office. My office window looked out to Central Park’s majestic trees, beautiful gazebo, and inspiring sculpture a great work environment. I could remember and wistfully recount how it used to be in Elmwood before nature, man, and time took away my idyllic world. What good would that do? I must dedicate my efforts to remaking Elmwood in the 21st century. Making a modern vibrant small town community with the same values as the Elmwood that helped shape my two sons. It requires a new outlook forged by reaching out and gathering ideas from new perspectives. So I am inviting everyone who loves Elmwood to find a role in building a new model for the twenty first century. I have proposed to the Elmwood Community Foundation that it coordinate a committee structure of community volunteers based on this outline. (pdf)
Why a picture of my sons, it's just small town family pride. Also, they are at church presenting the new proposed building plan. Erik has been heavily involved. The type of community leaders Elmwood has always helped develop.
Elmwood has in the past and could in the future be different. Elmwood can be an exception. Elmwood has the opportunity to be a model all across the Midwest of a new path for building a sustainable vibrant community. We have the right mix of resources, the right talent, and it is the right time. Saturday, June 12, 2010 6:22 AM
