Heart & Soul of Essex
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Host Fran Stoddard, Liz Subin, Heart & Soul of Essex Project Co-ordinator, Lori Houghton, Essex Village Trustee, Irene Wrenner, Essex Town Selectboard, and Kahyl Cooper, Youth Volunteer.
Heart and Soul of Essex is a community conversation for envisioning the future. What are we doing? ENGAGING the community in dialogue about the future.
Creating a VISION based on what people are saying. ACTIVATING lots of people from our community to take ACTION to move towards our vision.
What do we believe? Everyone deserves a say.
Planning for the future should be guided by what’s most important to the community.
Our community will be more successful if people from the town and village have a chance to talk together about the future and discover our shared interests.
Why does it matter? Essex is growing and changing. We want to hold onto what is special about our community and we want the changes that do happen to reflect what matters to the people who live and work here. Is this about merger? No. Past merger conversations have been about changing our governance structure. Heart & Soul is about discovering areas where we have similar interests and identifying ways to work together to accomplish our shared vision.
This is a different way to approach government, to explore new ways to communicate about what matters to us and to make sure our planning decisions are guided by our shared values.
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Summer Video Production Internship - Applications Open
Town Meeting TV is hiring two paid interns to join our production team for the summer! The program will run from Monday, June 24th until Friday, August 16th (8 weeks). $17 an hour, approximately 8 hours per week. We are looking for folks who have basic or intermediate experience with video recording and editing on Adobe Premiere. Interns will work with the Town Meeting TV Co-Directors to pick stories or events that they would like to cover in our community, practice outreach skills, then shoot and edit video that will be broadcasted on Town Meeting TV's YouTube and cable channels. Interested applicants should send their resume and cover letter (including why they are interested in this position and any relevant experience) to Jordan at jmitchell@cctv.org. Applications close Friday, May 24th at 5:00PM. For more information, please contact outreach@cctv.org or call 802-862-3966.