Tonight one of our local towns celebrated a milestone. Back in 2008, they started a project that honestly was truly amazing and just as amazing was to have completed this summer. What they did was to take their small town of 25oo people, and completely reconstruct not only their streets, but also how they think about rain water, and geothermal heating. Now I’m sure that there are a million statistics about the project, and I’m also sure that there are almost as many opinions on this topic. So without getting into the political side of this conversation, I’d just like to write what I saw tonight. I saw a lot of people wearing the town’s shirts with pride, people enjoying the nice landscape of the Civic Plaza, and just enjoying the town and their neighbors. It was a great reason to not only witness the ribbon cutting of the town’s project, but just to come out and see what was going on in their town. The reason that I was in town tonight was because the group that Daryl sings in was performing at the Civic Plaza and it was sure a nice night to enjoy the entertainment.
Fusion group singing tonight at the Streetscape Project
The sun was shining, they were serving all different food, but my choice was some white cupcakes with raspberry filling. Yum! After a fun night just hanging out listening to music, I realized that some people are so good on having a vision, and then the strength to try to get that vision accomplished. West Union hasn’t been updated since the 1970’s and now in 2013 their town is not only an example of future cities to come, but also a beautiful city that was able to be given a second breath in life. Congratulations!
A different view from the Court House of how nice the town looks!