Bison, SD

The 4 Perkins County Master Gardeners (MG) are an outreach from the Extension Service Office. The 4 MGs are working on Community Garden project involving a half acre site at the fairgrounds. The purpose of the Community Garden is to makke available land to people of limited curcumstances for gardeninig. The Community Garden has been measured and mapped into plots of various sizes. A public meeting is planned for 7:00 p.m. Friday April 4 at the Bentley Building in Bison for those interested in renting plots. The MGs have made plans for installing a water pipeline to facilitate irrigation of the plots and have submitted a grant to help cover the costs.

As many of you know the HORIZONS project held a community event at the Bentley Building in December of 2007. Three committees were formed as a result of that event: Town Beautification, Economic Development and Community Activities/Youth Involvement.  The Beautification committee met february 27th to discuss ways in which we can help the community look more appealing to visitors in town for the Centennial. Short and long term projects were discussed. In the short term, Coleman Avenue and Main Street were to be the focus and, in addition, it was decided that we could offer general services to residents that are unable to conduct such activities on their own such as tree pruning, mowing and general cleanup. We could repaint the façade of the old bar and remove the sign, possibly paint a house, and offer the Master Gardeners some financial support towards their ‘barrel’ project.  Long term projects might include moving junk vehicles to the landfill and have them crushed and removed, paint another house or two, tree plantings or anything else within our limits that might possibly come up. If you or your property could benefit from the short term projects described above please contact Terry Hall by April 7th at 244-5222 ext4 (w) or 430-0877 in the evening.

Bison area residents have been working fervently for some time now.  The results are starting to show.  Our big Celebration Event was a success!  The night was put together to share with community members, what the Bison Strategic Planning Committee has been up to.  Members of this committee were well diversified with young adults, as well as young and older parents and teachers that included:

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Mission Statement for Bison

The Horizons Strategic Planning Team is committed to the growth and development of the Bison area.  We will pursue our goals to improve the community and engage community members in a cooperative improvement effort, by linking local assets to the goals of our plan. We will consider the opinions of all community members and respect the views of all people to make the plan a reality.

Vision Statement for BisonThe Bison Community will be vibrant, thriving, progressive, attractive, and inviting.  Revenue generating businesses will provide an environment that maintains and improves the infrastructure and provides a foundation of sustainability for the community.  Programs and activities will be available for people of all ages.  We will provide a safe, beautiful community and support a quality family life which encourages the next generation to raise their families in the Bison area.    

Bison’s Strategic Goals

·        Develop and support community activities.

·        Develop an After School Program Committee to set up program for kids k-6th grade.

·        To provide job opportunities for the Bison Community. 

·        Improve the appearance of Bison.

Kevin Weishaar did a series of 4 weeks of training on how to create a web-site. I attended training sessions. He was very informative and helpful with everything from how to create a story-board, to taking pictures and uploading them to your web-page to making our videos more user-friendly on-line. He also set each of us up with a web-site of our own off of the Bison web-site. Kevin also sent us each home with some software to help us along the way.  All of this was done to help us get one step closer to bringing our community to the rest of the world.  One of our goals was to establish an Internet business (or call center).  In this goal, we hope to bring more jobs to the Bison area.