Earlton Farm Show 2016
Friday April 15 from 10 am to 9 pm and Saturday April 16 from 7:30 am to 4 pm. Free admission (please bring a donation for local food banks). Join us on Friday from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm for a kick off lunch including a buffet of salads, sandwiches, soup, desserts, tea and coffee for only $5! Youth Ag Talk – Northeast, Friday 6 pm, and view the annual Forage and Seed Show, students’ art show and over 60 exhibits downstairs!
Strategic Planning
Have you wondered where your organization is going? Do you think about where your group or community will be in five years? Is your association or council equipped to operate successfully in the future? And how will you be affected by: environmental trends; reduced resources; new demands of members, clients or residents? If your organization has pondered these questions, the strategic planning process may help guide you towards choosing your path into the future, versus having to deal with situations as they happen. Strategic planning is a tool that any organization of people, such as a municipality, association, government body, business, agency, council or special interest group can use to proactively plan their future. It is a process that: examines where your organization or business is now, where you want it to be, and how you are going to get there; involves your community or group in visioning your preferred future; produces a flexible plan or road map of strategies derived from internal discussions and external sources of input; steers your county/region in a focused direction for future success; allows proactive thinking beyond your current activities and traditions; deals with change positively by responding to it effectively; involves making decisions that consider changes or anticipated changes in the environment; sets priorities for action that are reflective of all aspects of your association or municipality. Strategic planning is different from long-range planning. Long-range planning builds on current goals and practices and proposes modifications for the future. Strategic planning, however, considers changes or anticipated changes in the environment that suggest more radical moves.
