Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Bumps


Here is another telling photograph. It's a photo of a small failure. This is my meeting for the Pesticide Free Everett group. No one came. Just me and my knitting. The second reason it's a failure: I was going to treat myself to a latte, instead of grabbing my wallet, I grabbed my camera.


I need to come up with a new strategy. I hung flyer's and sent emails about about this meeting, apparently, that does not work in this town. I need to do the opposite, go to other people's meetings to gather support. Still, I've got several devoted volunteers, and I know we'll have a successful work weekend and the city has agreed to make my neighborhood park pesticide free, so I've got a good start. This was just a small bump in the road. If you've had a roadblock recently, just keep going on. Every stumbling block is a stepping stone, right!

4 comments:

P. Mookie said...

Did you let the media know about the meeting? Do you have a community paper? Radio station? Library bulletin board? Just suggestions....

P. Mookie said...

Can you print up some flyers for workers to hand out while they work? That's another way to spread the word.

Kel said...

Megs-- is there some sort of online community you could participate in, a Seattle mother's online community forum? Jasmine uses the Golden Gate Community Mother's one and it's really useful and a targeted audience.

Megan said...

Thanks for all the great ideas. I'm saving media for the big event-a kickoff work party. I emailed local env groups, moms groups and hung flyers at the co-op, library and crunchy coffee shops. No bites. But, I do have neighborhood volunteers, so my next tactic is to go to other meetings, instead of calling my own!

Thanks, though!