On Saturday I attended a community visioning discussion that was sponsored by the Kenaitzes, the Community Action Coalition and the Mobilizing Action through Planning and Partnerships. A group of about 60 people reviewed what we have in our community that is positive and healthy, what we’d like to see to make our community healthier and then what we can do to realize what we’d like to see.
It was a good exercise that led to a a lot of thoughtful discussion. I enjoyed hearing peoples’ perceptions of our schools and the need for the district to play a role in promoting a healthy community. While I agree that the schools should work toward helping our children live a healthy lifestyle, I feel that it is equally important to promote ideas that will lead to healthy adults. Our students need the security of living with healthy adults and the foundation of good schools.
Thanks to the three groups for bringing folks together for this, it was a good start to a long process.
On another sadder note, we lost Kenai Middle 8th grade student Rylene Oskolkoff last week in a car accident. This was a big blow to the school and the community. I send her family the very best during this difficult time.
Improving our Community
On Saturday I attended a community visioning discussion that was sponsored by the Kenaitzes, the Community Action Coalition and the Mobilizing Action through Planning and Partnerships. A group of about 60 people reviewed what we have in our community that is positive and healthy, what we’d like to see to make our community healthier and then what we can do to realize what we’d like to see.
It was a good exercise that led to a a lot of thoughtful discussion. I enjoyed hearing peoples’ perceptions of our schools and the need for the district to play a role in promoting a healthy community. While I agree that the schools should work toward helping our children live a healthy lifestyle, I feel that it is equally important to promote ideas that will lead to healthy adults. Our students need the security of living with healthy adults and the foundation of good schools.
Thanks to the three groups for bringing folks together for this, it was a good start to a long process.
On another sadder note, we lost Kenai Middle 8th grade student Rylene Oskolkoff last week in a car accident. This was a big blow to the school and the community. I send her family the very best during this difficult time.