Before and after pictures
Chronology
I added "WWW.MARROWSTONE.INFO" to the Marrowstone Island Welcome sign on 4/27/2011. Below is a chronology of events leading to that moment.
- 1999 - I started the Island Net on Yahoo Groups.
- 2003 - 2010 - I played with various platforms for a website about MI.
- November 2010 - I discovered Google Sites and started building this website.
- 2/13/2011 - I posted this note to the Island Net describing a sign that contained a very cryptic URL created using Google's Short Url. It was a fiasco. I took the next six (6) weeks to do it right.
- 4/6/2011 10 AM - I presented a proposal (see below) to the Nordland Garden Club Board and around 10:20 AM, the Board unanimously approved a motion to add the link "WWW.MARROWSTONE.INFO" to the Welcome sign.
- 4/20 - I presented the same proposal to the MICA Board and they unanimously approved a motion to add the link "WWW.MARROWSTONE.INFO" to the Welcome sign. My presentation to both Boards proposed adding a fifth board
in the middle. I said I would do my best to make that sign board look like it
was part of the original sign. Both Boards authorized the MI Sign Advisory Group (made up
of Joan Anliker, Ralph Rush an Pete Hubbard) to use their discretion on how the
link would be added and what it would look like.
- 4/21 1 PM - I posted this note to the Island Net informing subscribers about this decision.
- 4/22 The MI Sign Advisory Group approves the "weathering" of the board and the stenciling I will do.
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4/27 1:15 PM The new sign has been installed.
- 8/28/11 - Added holder on far right to hold filenames for web pages like "/island-net"
- Approx. Feb. 2012, the Nordland Garden Club Board asked me to me the added holder, and I did.
Filenames/web pages (to be) added to the sign URL- /yardsale
- /island-net
- /mica
- /micie
Proposal to the Nordland Garden Club Board
I
was recently honored with the Marrowstone Island Citizen of the Year
award for my efforts to use Internet based tools to help Islanders share
information. Specifically, the award said “Probably the most important
and long lasting volunteer effort he has contributed to our island
community is the setting up of our “Island Net” and the Marrowstone web
site.”
The
award is presented to someone who “... has (had a) widespread and long
lasting effect on Marrowstone Island and/or Jefferson County.”.
I
do not consider my “effect” to be that “widespread” because at this
moment there are only 245 subscribers to the Island Net and that is less
than 30% of the Island’s population of 837. I want everyone on the
Island (who has access to the Internet) to be subscribed to the Island
Net so neighbors can help neighbors day-to-day, or when an emergency
happens.
I
am often asked “How can we get more Islanders to join and use the
Island Net?”. Currently, the only way that Islanders learn about the
Island Net (and the Island websites) is by word of mouth from neighbors
and friends. I’m here today to ask your permission to offer Marrowstone
Island another way.
The
MI Welcome sign in the triangle contains four (4) boards. I wish to
propose the addition of a fifth board in the middle under the second
board that says “To MARROWSTONE ISLAND”.
Before
I go any further, I want you to know how proud I am of the work some of
your members have done and continue to do to maintain the triangle
area. I’m sure other Islanders, visitors, and the county are also proud
of your work. I will do nothing to detract from that.
I
will do my best to make the fifth board look as authentic as the other
four. My goal is make the fifth board board look like it was part of
the original sign. To insure this, I would like to ask a small group of
Islanders (mostly Garden Club members) to offer advice and approve of
the size, shape, and color of the sign. We might call them the “MI
Info Sign advisory group”.
The
sign will simply say “WWW.MARROWSTONE.INFO”. That is the link to the MI
Information portal website which contains links to other MI websites
like the Island Net, the Hellow Pages, Emergency Preparedness and other
web spaces that have yet to be developed.
Once
the sign is approved by you, the MICA board and the MI Info Sign
advisory group, I will move the top two (2) boards up high enough to fit
the new board underneath. If it doesn’t work out, this can easily be
reversed.
My work effort on this sign and the websites has three (3) audiences.
- Most (about 60%) of my work effort is intended for current Island residents
- 30% for new or potentially new residents, and
- 10% for visitors.
WA
State DOT defers to Jefferson County for management of the triangle
area who in turn defer to the Nordland Garden Club and MICA. The
Jefferson County planning department says that no permit is required to
modify the sign.
I hope you will approve this proposal. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Pete Hubbard hphubbard@gmail.com 385-0105 Cell: 360-808-0766
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