John Gibson
John Gibson
asking extending hand money putting
Not only are we not asking for money, but we are putting our money into Wilson. We are extending our hand to the community.
folks gotten rebuild takes trying work
It takes folks with experience. What we have done is we're trying to rebuild and work a completely new approach, so we've gotten our folks in Augusta involved.
figured people stayed
A lot of the people -- a lot of the people who stayed wanted to do this destruction. They figured it out. And that's -- I'm not surprised.
manager succeeding tried
We had a manager that was from out of town. We tried that. We didn't feel we were succeeding there.
awareness elevate open spread
We wanted to get this out in the open and elevate the awareness of the organization in the Billings area. We're spread pretty thin.
ought
We've got about 300 members. We ought to have about 3,000.
area bring common community days feet folks open partner regardless square
We have 55,000 square feet of common area that's open 363 days a year, regardless of weather. We want to partner with the community and bring more folks in.
city hoping join ours smaller together towns
There have been a lot smaller towns than ours who have hosted this and been successful. That's what we're hoping for the city of Waukee - that our residents will join together to make it successful. We'll need a lot of people, and I think we'll get them.
days early levels site skewed trying
We think there were a lot of 'web nerds' trying out the site in the early days and that skewed the levels of interest.
access compromise hang land love proud work
We're pretty proud of what we have and we want to hang on to it. We'd love to be able to work out compromises to these problems, as long as they don't compromise access to our land and water.
until
Until I was 45 years old, I couldn't find what I wanted to do.
heard
We have heard a lot about Edith Clement. What about this Edith Jones?
area city library planned point public safety somewhere
We would like to at some point in time. If the city is able to find some land, it has been planned for somewhere in the area of the library and public safety building.
lots
We'd like to have a 100 people. There's lots to do.