Choteau Community Input
Employment
- Improve wages—food and housing costs are too high for the amount of money that can be made working here
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Chester Community Input
Economic Development (private business)
- New Main Street businesses (restaurant, motel, tire repair services)
- Access to affordable business financing
- Industrial parking
Growing Leaders Youth Summit in Havre Needs You!
In response to the number of folks that were unable to attend the 2013 Summit because of the traveling distance involved, this year, we will be having FIVE regional Growing Leaders Youth Summits. It’s been nearly two years since the last Growing Leaders Youth Summit, and you’re going to love the ideas that have been cooking since then. The response to this event was overwhelming that this year, we are planning Regional Growing Leaders Youth Summits across the state in target areas around the Flathead, Helena, Livingston, Billings, and Havre. This is no small task, and we can’t do it alone. We need your help to make sure that this event is truly a success, and inspires young Hi-line residents to have an active role in the future of sustainable agriculture and local food systems.
Lend an ear (or more appropriately, an eye) about this opportunity for creating a truly transformative experience for high school students along the Hi-line. This is a request for your involvement in making the Growing Leaders Youth Summit a reality. The task is to put together a solid foundation of steering committee members, presenters, workshop leaders, and tour sites for an event in October 2015 that will build high school students’ sense of leadership and capacity to educate and organize their peers and communities around healthy eating and living.
This event is a collaborative effort between the Growing Leaders Youth Initiatives at the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) and Opportunity Link, Inc.
If you are interested in this event or would like more information, please don’t hesitate to contact Rosie Goldich at vista@opportunitylinkmt.org or (406) 265-3699 or Demetrius Fassas at demetrius.fassas@foodcorps.org or (859) 200-6861.
Montana Building Active Communities
The Montana Building Active Communities (BAC) webinar and resource guide offer information and strategies for creating safer and more accessible pedestrian and bicycle travel networks. BAC focuses on creating local infrastructure that encourages healthy behaviors and increased mobility for community members.
MT Farmers Market Directory
The Montana Farmers Market Directory is a publication of the Montana Department of Agriculture. This document contains information on farmers markets throughout the state and who the contact person is for each market. It also includes the location and times that markets are held and whether the market accepts SNAP and/or WIC benefits.
Chinook Community Input
Economic Development (private business)
- Lower water and sewer rates
- Develop more retail, perhaps a cooperative store
- Expand child care
- Remodel Cy Courthouse, City Hall, Police Dept
- Upgrade water treatment/sewer systems
- Seek access to affordable business loans
- Promote community attractions, events, businesses, and services
- Improve rest area, fair grounds, walking path
Blackfeet Community Input
Economic Development (private business)
- Need better customer service; fast foods/Wal-Mart.
- We need family oriented business.
- Lack of funds for public infrastructure improvement-to keep our town clean.
- Lack of economic availability: bank loans, jobs, assistance filling out applications.
Big Sandy Community Input
Economic Development (private business)
- Create job opportunities for young people, year-round, wages higher than minimum wage
- Improve presentation of Main Street area to entice highway traffic
- Improve quality of older housing to attract new residents
- Improve water and sewer infrastructure to attract new businesses
- Keep current businesses on Main Street
Improving Streets and Trails
Opportunity Link and partners held a technical assistance workshop to provide communities with information and resources on improving the safety and accessibility of city streets and recreational trails. Topics covered included health and the built environment, planning for improved street and trail networks, bicycle tourism, building trails on a local level, and funding for projects. The Street and Trail Resource Packet contains handouts and contact information for technical assistance providers, bicycle tourism opportunities, Montana Department of Transportation resources, and funding source options. Below are some links for additional information: