NEWS & EVENTS

Sip to help lead CVP initiative
By Mike Christopherson, Managing Editor
Crookston Daily Times

March 11, 2005 - The Crookston Vitality Project steering committee has hired Angie Sip to take the reins as the CVP works toward a strategic planning document that maps Crookston's next few years.

Sip, originally from Crookston, moved to Fisher when she was 16 and graduated from Fisher High School. In high school, she was a post-secondary enrollment option (PSEO) student at UMC. She graduated from the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities last year with a bachelor's degree in communications. She has family living in Crookston, Fisher and Ada.

The Vitality Project sector groups continue to meet with the goal of crafting priority lists in various issue areas by the summer. Sip is currently getting acquainted with the sector groups and the CVP's history and process. When the sector groups finish their work, she will be the lead writer of a strategic planning document for the community that encompasses the top priorities identified by the sector groups.

"I'm excited, because I think it's a great opportunity to bring the community together," Sip said. "We need to get young people to want to come here, and we also need to keep the people that are already here."

Sip succeeds Carrie Bang, who led the CVP's information-gathering phase last year and coordinated the September CVP kick-off event at the high school.