Group attends business council workshop

A small group of local folks attended a workshop in Thermopolis recently, presented by the Wyoming Business Council, called “Strategic Doing.”

The workshop was a follow up from meetings held earlier this year which resulted in reviewing various surveys that have been done over the last several years to determine what our community would like to see done in regards to improving our town.

The workshop’s main objective was to give a little boost in getting some of the projects finished that have been started, or at least further along, and responding to the surveys.

Facilitators for the day were Kim Porter and Amy Quick with the Wyoming Business Council.

They started things off with the question, “Imagine Thermopolis is a well-kept and beautiful city where tourists want to spend time and residents have a sense of community pride. What would that look like?”

Porter guided the group through discussion and the final takeaway from the workshop was that they needed to focus on the assets in the room. In other words, what could those people who attended the workshop do?

The group ultimately narrowed down the multitude of projects to planters and murals, finally deciding planters was the project to revisit and enhance right away.

As a result, Amanda Moeller did an inventory of the planters and flowerbeds in town and Kati McCumber and Suzanne Samelson attended a Rotary Club meeting to get some feedback from them.

Meri Ann Rush and others from the group will be talking with the town council at their October meeting to let them know how things are coming along.

In the meantime, the group will be meeting on Monday, Sept. 23 at noon at the Main Street office in the Central Bank and Trust building. Everyone is encouraged to bring their lunch and hear about what the group is planning and see if there is even a small portion of the projects others would like to volunteer to help with.

They will also discuss other issues and concerns folks have and look toward addressing those concerns and what additional steps can be taken.