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SHEDG Goals and Projects
Support for Beautification
- Projects to improve the downtown appearance
- Flower baskets and cement planters
- Street trees and median strip beautification
Tourism and Recreation
- Supports tourism
- Mural Campaign
- Oregon Jamboree Country Music Festival
- Promotes local retail to tourists
- Participated in funding the public restroom at Shea Point
- Continues to promote the Oregon Jamboree
- Supports the Scenic Byway - Over the River - Through the Woods
Business Development
- Supports implementation of the Strategic Plan
- Business recruitment, retention and expansion
- Encourages downtown development partnerships
- Marketing plan for business recruitment
- Creates commercial downtown market flyers for community events
- Works proactively on the downtown revitalization plan
Quality of Life
- Supports the Sweet Home Community Foundation
- Encourages and supports leadership training
- Project endorsements
- Supported the School District with the prompt installation of their underground sprinkler system by agreeing to an advance rent payment for the fields SHEDG uses for the Jamboree event
Overall Benefits of the Oregon Jamboree
- Fundraiser for SHEDG community economic development programs and projects
- Each year the Jamboree infuses the region with money derived from the economic impact from the event
- Provides fund-raising opportunities for service and school groups
- Creates jobs
- Instills a sense of community pride
- Involves over 400 volunteers
- A percentage of the annual profits go to the Sweet Home Community Foundation
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