Community Conversations to be Held in Dayton

Community Council is seeking input to identify important “community treasures”

DAYTON – The Community Council, a nonprofit organization that works throughout the Walla Walla Valley, is beginning a project to “identify community treasures that represent shared values and regional assets.”

According to the group’s executive director, Mary Campbell, the new project will begin with a community survey, and two “community conversations” to be held in Dayton, Walla Walla and Milton-Freewater in May and June.

Campbell said the purpose of the project is “so that we can make sure that we pay attention to what we treasure as we plan for the future. We hope to develop a vision for the region, with prioritized goals, and activities related to those goals!  All of the work will be done by community members.”

Community Conversation workshops will be held in Dayton on May 25 and June 22. Both are Wednesdays. The sessions will both be held at the Dayton Elementary School multi-purpose room at 302 S. Park St. They will run from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served and childcare will be available.

During the second workshop, Campbell said in a press release, “findings generated at the first workshop will be reviewed and refined into more narrowly-defined topic areas and community priorities will emerge. A third workshop, designed to bring everyone in the region together in one location, will be held in the fall. At that workshop, the findings will be approved by community members, and the vision and priorities will be organized into actionable work.”

The community survey form can be completed at http://goo.gl/forms/czQW1nJs6P.

The Community Council began in 2008, “to inspire a citizen-driven, consensus-based, problem-solving process to prepare the region for future growth, change, and challenges and to enhance the quality of life in the region between Burbank and Dayton, from the Snake River to Milton-Freewater.”