Compiled from facilitator notes and sticky notes

Emergency Preparedness

• EMO Directory Warming Center - Handout listing services in emergency

• Extensive package for Newcomers & Emergency Doc

• Information through Digby “The Coastline”

• EMO Coordinator / Team / Form Emergency care committee to assist with communication during storms / power outages

• Emergency network to check on people / Neighbourhood watch

Health Care

• Recruit Nurses

• Municipal Government to FUND Med Students with a contract to stay

• Encourage Students to enter Healthcare Profession

Healthcare team going to schools to encourage students to enter profession

• Push government to fast-track new immigrant health care practioners to be able to work as they are trained.

Communication

• Community Radio Station, Cell tower, Radio Transmitter

• Drone Footage of the village could be on website

• Weymouth Community Groups / Clubs / Associations are separate and don’t work well together

• Better promotion and collaboration for events that already exist – there is too much division between committees, they should be working together more.

• Improved communication would be beneficial, so that people know what is going on and what opportunities are out there to be involved in activities and events.

• FUND Weymouth Bridge / Weymouth website for more local communication – more news and notices, not just events

Black Communities

• Contact Paula

• Weymouth Falls Community Center / Langford Heritage Center

• Applying for grants etc.

• Community garden events

• Reunions, castles, Child Friendly, dances every 2 years

Beautification

• Maintain property fronts as a town initiative

• Hire an environmentally friendly beautification team

• Painting, clean up, landscaping

• Plant more trees in the community and get property owners involved

• Fix up the older houses in the town of Weymouth that are historical

• Roads - Erosion of Weymouth Falls Rd @ Irving Mill

• Clean ups should be organized – existing clean ups through the Lions Club could be expanded, need to include tree trimming and clearing

• Need to educate people about littering

Tourism

• Weymouth teas should be celebrated more

• Need attractive Highway signs

• Involve Electric City Committee

• Boat tours on the Sissiboo River, Talks about the tides / fish / environment

• Be more bicycle friendly - have bicycle friendly trails clearly marked, have bike racks in down town

• Develop festivals and markets

• Something needs to be done with all the empty buildings in the village – turn them into an asset rather than the liability and eyesore they are now

• Assets

Empty buildings

Sissiboo river

Nature

Fountain

• Needs better parking

• Pavement uneven,

• Very slippery in winter

Environment

• Drought – dry wells

• Greenhouse in the town (now available – contact us Wake up Weymouth)

• 10 years from now – local residents will need:

  • food security- local sources

  • Heat security – oil, wood, solar, safety

  • Transportation security – need for public transit, isolation

Tide Pole

• Pat Jarvis does carvings would be a recommendation to do the artwork (Call to artists to be released soon)

Employment & the economy

• New stores needed on higher ground

• Seasonal employment is a problem

• Seasonal infrastructure – tourism and services etc. close for part of the year.

• Mink farms and the mill closing are problems for the community.

• Need for full time, year round work

• Need for increased education levels for some - The library provides the opportunity for people to pursue on-line education – free wifi

• 13 Empty buildings in the community – could be an asset or a liability, depending on what is done with them. Could be used as market spaces, etc

• There are people with skills and talents in the community – these should be celebrated more.

Artists co-op?

• Ideas for employment

Make paper (cloth?) bags to replace plastic bags that will soon not be used anymore.

• Models in nearby communities

Shelburne – maker space at the library – sewing machines, people make cloth bags out of recycled fabric.

Could build on the local Frenchies – upcycling clothing, maps of local Frenchies should be available

Youth Engagement

• Young people leaving the community, for work, a sense that there are no opportunities for them here, and some return later as retirees

• Need for youth to get involved in activities and initiatives – would benefit from improved communication, many youth don’t know what they could get involved in. (see communication)