discussion.

The first round of community meetings was held last night and I'd have to say it was a success.  There could have been a lot more people there.  I would have liked to see more city leaders there and business owners, but the discussion we had about our beloved community was productive.  I appreciate those who took time to get involved and take interest in the city's future.  It is up to us as community members to see our city thrive in an ever changing world. 

You still have a chance to give your input about Windom's future on Monday, July 11th from 4pm-6pm at the Windom Community Center.

Along with helping with these community meetings, Finding Windom is getting ready to launch findingwindom.com, Windom's very own community portal website.  This website will not be content driven, but will serve as a directory for all our residents, potential residents, visitors and businesses.  It will be a way to link all the great aspects of our city into one user friendly website and making Windom extremely accessible to anyone and everyone interested in seeing all the great things Windom has to offer.  Findingwindom.com will include links to local websites, including businesses and community organizations (to name a few), a community wide calendar, and local social networks. We are very excited to launch this website and hope this website will increase communication within the community and market our great community to others...just another way we are becoming the little city that would.  Stay tuned!

you talkin' to me?

Yup, that is me in the refletion.  I was the nerd in the parking lot taking a picture of a bumper sticker. The sticker was so appropriate that I had to share.

I hope to see a bunch of people at the upcoming community meetings to talk about Windom's future. 

Wednesday, July 6th from 6pm-8pm

Monday, July 11th from 4pm-6pm

at the Windom Community Center.

See you there!

i'm hungry.

I wish Icould tell you everything in this one post.  I wish I could tell you the beginning of River City Eatery, the present of River City Eatery and the future of River City Eatery right here, right now.  What I can tell you is that when I write the book, The Tale of River City Eatery, someday, this interesting story will be organized into lovely chapters of laughter, tears, blood and sweat.  But for right now, I want to give you a sneak peak into what Chapter 32 (just a guess as to what chapter I'm on at this point in the novel basd on the series of events it has taken to get to this point) is all about...the day the State of Minnesota decided to shut down...

Now I don't want to turn this into a negative post--I don't believe in dwelling on the negative--I just want to tell you how interesting things can get when trying to open up a business in the State of Minnesota.  But somewhere on someone's desk at the Department of Labor and Industry are River City Eatery's plumbing plans waiting to be looked at and approved. 

So I wait...I have to wait until those plans are approved before I can keep working to make River City Eatery a licensed food establishment. 

Isn't that exciting? 

Yup, The Tale of River City Eatery will definately make a wonderful book some day.  I'm sure you are all waiting to here the 31 chapters before this one too...believe me...it will be a fun read.

And just to keep the record straight...just because it hasn't been easy, doesn't mean it has been hard, it's just been interesting...yeah, that's the word...very interesting.

Cross your fingers this shutdown doesn't last long because I'm hungry for River City Eatery!

community meetings.

Next week is the beginning of good things for Windom.  It is time to start hearing what you, the community of Windom, would like to see the city council work on.  This is your chance to tell us what would make Windom an even better place to live.  I know you all have ideas, so bring them to the meeting.  You don't have to come to both, we are just trying to make it possible for as many people to come by offering to different times.  If you can't make either one, you can leave your ideas on Finding Windom's facebook page.  The city council is asking for your help, so let's help...

The community meetings are scheduled for Wednesday, July 6 from 6 - 8 pm AND Monday, July 11 from  4 - 6 pm at the Community Center.

See you there!

next question.

What do people feel are the issues and challenges that the City is facing?


Check us out on Facebook or leave a comment on my blog, but just give us some feedback!


Watch for further details about community meetings coming up soon.  This will be the community's chance to talk about Windom, give feedback and ideas for the City to accomplish, change, edit, continue, you know, all the things that make this town a great place to live.  This is our town--let's make it what we want it to be!


Right now, we would love to hear from you via Social Media--what a wonderful tool.