Monday Mailing
Year 20 • Issue 18 13 January 2014 1. Sauvie Island Rural Plan Update: Multnomah County Survey Asks Participants to Define 'Rural' 2. Toolkit for Working with Rural Volunteers 3. Renew Rural America (Resource) 4. Oregon LNG: State Delays Decision, Frustrating Everyone Involved 5. Interest Revived in Natural History Park 6. State Ignored Plan for Tougher Chemical Oversight 7. New Trains Making First Runs 8. Ease Up On The Throttle 9. Oregon Small Farms Conference 10. At This Coworking Space In A Climbing Gym, You Can Do Pull-Ups At Your Standing Desk 11. Funding Opportunities 1. Sauvie Island Rural Plan Update: Multnomah County Survey Asks Participants to Define 'Rural' If Sauvie Island's future matters to you, here's your chance to shape it. County planners who are working to update the island's outdated land use and transportation plans want to know what "rural" means to you and the other million-plus people who use the island each year. Until Jan. 17, anyone with Internet access can give their opinion. Taking a cue from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology project that uses visual cues to capture impressions that can be hard to describe with words, county planners have created an online survey to gauge how island residents and visitors view the island's rural character.
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They hope the results will help guide discussions among community advisory groups tasked with making recommendations to the County Planning Commission. A large focus of their recommendations is maintaining the island's rural character for the next 20 years. To access the full story, click here. 2. Toolkit for Working with Rural Volunteers This is a toolkit for little places, the ones that don’t have a Volunteer Coordinator or a Development Officer or even a full-time Director, the ones that depend almost exclusively on volunteers. These communities are the sum and substance of both the Appalachian Coal Country Team and the Western Hardrock Watershed Team and it was these rural communities that provided the research base for this project. You will find three basic sections, each of which can provide significant insight and ideas for rural volunteers. The first is Rural Volunteer Statistics, an extensive survey of the volunteers themselves— learn just who our rural volunteers are, what they do, where they associate and how best they can be reached. Page 1 of 5