• Create community theme Experience Rochester (As a group - discover what Rochester has to offer.)

• Home based business, etc.

• History & resources

• Recreational opportunities that currently exist

• Organizations

• Compile findings and update Resource Book

• Newspaper (but here)

• Contribute for existing newspaper

• Distribute via website, electronic newsletter, visitor center, signage, community information fair, existing newspaper

• Pictorial history @ visitors center/Historical center

• School Admin (the existing) building for visitor/Historical center

• Use of school facilities for education about community issues

• Theater - Movie/Stage

• Burma shave type "Welcome to Community" signs

• Concert in the park

• Arcade

• Something interactive to incorporate community history

• Bike trail/walking trail

• Sidewalks & road shoulders

• Combine college & Library center

• Farmers market/business fair

• Collaborate with schools/GRUB 

• Collaborate with community center (ROOF, Library, groups)

• HIEFER Project (commercialize Swede Hall kitchen)

• Youth & Senior Citizens involvement

• Mentoring Church action groups

  • Adult mentoring

  • Parenting

  • Cooking/baking

  • Outdoor activities

  • Building repairs to Swede Hall

• Business listing (Billboard)

• Bartering Co-op

• Bus system

• Satellite system for services - DSHS, etc .,senior, college, feed banks, & counseling

• Continued diligence against illegal drugs

• Community signage (where things are, ie, parks, Lucky Eagle, freeway)

• Electronic newsletter

• Singles club

• Resource training/education liaison

• Center to include satellite offices for DSHS, Work Source, Food Banks, Senior & College counseling, Social Security)

• Farmers market/business fair

• Safety

• Workshops for ethic education

• Return of WIC to Rochester

• Personal invitation helps build relationships to gain more involvement by other people

• Build volunteer base for Library

• Neighborhood watch

• Buy locally

• Resource/exchange (helping those who are hurting but don't show it outwardly)

• Involve high school students in community activities

• Low-cost meals and additional state support for schools that pass levies

• Entrepreneurship fair to educate people about potential apprenticeship programs

• Local senior center has only 6 to 11 people show up for "senior meals"

• Personal invitation helps build relationships to gain more involvement by other people

• Community forum on "work ethic work-shop"

• "Cash flow for Kids" game as a means of teaching financial responsibility

• Make Rochester the Folk Dancing capitol of Washington State using Swede Hall as the focal point.

• GIS partnership to train kids to be analysts

• Fire department to use GIS for their trucks on way to a fire

• We need to adopt a mission statement to incorporate technology teachings into the community

• Block Watch

• Involve middle school students and staff in some activity at the park

• Small groups needed to start "lending Circle"

• Discrimination - age, language culture etc.

• Unite various community groups

• New businesses/grow existing businesses

• Grow local jobs

• Guide local growth

• Art Tours

• Increase volunteerism

• Community pride - Flag at Post Office not displayed on holidays and other times

• Use of schools for community events

• Rochester Leadership

• Resource case-worker training

• Visitors Historical Center type of central information resource

Additional Things we can do to increase our ability to convince people/groups to invest in our community!

• Build a resume of successful small projects

• Keep track of volunteer hours on community projects which can then be used as matching funds

• Look at an organizational structure that will form the basis of getting started