LET’S OPEN FOR BUSINESS!
Hope Hobbs talked to Potlatch about vacant buildings and found out they will sell them, so they are available for potential businesses.
We are working to establish a gas station/minimart in town. There is one in Centralia that is funded through different grants. We sent four community members to the Idado Nonprofit Development Center’s grant writing workshop to find out how to find and apply for grants for a new minimart and for the nonprofit daycare. The grant writing instructor encouraged this and says it’s very possible. A new minimart would address poverty in several ways: it would open up jobs; it would save on gas (now when you need a gallon of milk in the evening, you have to drive ten miles to the next town) and it would keep money in town. Bovill loses dollars every time someone drives out of town to find services.
Our action teams have the arrows going in the same direction! The Economic team’s work is connected to the community pride team’s work because a clean and green town is more welcoming to new business and activity.