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What is your dream for Quesnel?

  • To believe in the beauty of Quesnel. To inspire vision within our community. This community has a profound depth within the arts and culture, which is the common thread of all communities. Believe we can overcome the pending falldown through the depths of the beauty within.
  • For Quesnel to welcome everyone … to drive into town, hear a band playing in the park, walk in into the information center and be able to get a list of events going on, hop onto a website and be able to type in my profile and get a list of community organizations that would interest me.
  • To be awesome.
  • For my beautiful hometown to become the tourist capital of Northern BC.
  • Tidier back alleys with no holes in the pavement. Maybe painting vines on the back entrances to the stores. Make the back alleys not so scary! They should reflect prosperity.
  • That this will be a community which welcomes and recognizes the contributions of its seniors and disabled citizens.
  • To make more use of Lebourdais Park - to make this city 100% user friendly.
  • More parks, greenery and all stores full, no empty stores fronts. Clean windows on the businesses.
  • To have a community in which we can grow old gracefully. A place where young people can stay and receive a quality education and be the next generation for a strong vibrant community.
  • A city where we embrace our diversity and encourage our youth to feel proud of Quesnel! I have traveled in Europe and Central America and still feel awed with all that Quesnel has to offer. We need to promote our City, include our youth and all ethnic groups to contribute more, receive access to, and feel proud to call Quesnel HOME!!!
  • A new Museum.
  • The Hallis Lake Cross Country Ski Facility is becoming a well-used non-motorized recreational site; skiing, hiking, snowshoeing, cycling. To enhance this, I would like to see a nature trail around the lake. The lake has an abundance of wildlife. The trail would give nature lovers a wonderful place to observe nature and a place of serenity. I would love to see this happen.
  • A time when young people won’t be stopped from participating in sports and arts activities because of cost.
  • To become a cultural Mecca!! We have so much to be proud of with our museum, drama, art, dance, music, sweet downtown core, film club, live arts … Go Q Go!
  • Bike trails leading to Two Mile Flat. Walking/biking neighbourhoods that allow local shopping (small local markets, etc.) Limit driving – local parks/green spaces (seniors' developments that are green, like Victoria’s development along the gorge.
  • To be the manufacturing centre for a “well balanced sharing” of the post-beetle forests among woodlots, community forests, First Nations tenures and tree farm licenses rather than just one of two large corporations.
  • To see our community stand proud an celebrate the fabulous talent in town! We are not just a forestry town! You look for and reward the diversity we need.
  • To have a real theater for members of the City to enjoy.
  • A centre for Western Canadians to retire to.
  • In order to fulfill Quesnel’s dream of becoming a greener city, let’s have a bypass and use the waste heat from pulp/sawmills to heat greenhouses and provide food locally grown for the people in this area.
  • A community rich in economic diversity, educational opportunity, and community spirit. Quesnel can and should be a place people choose to settle because of its attributes as well as career opportunities.
  • Model city for energy efficiency, clean air, low taxes, top retirement center north of Kamloops.
  • To stay as it is in size. - Don’t let big corporations take over – just help us.
  • That it will remain as friendly as it is now and the Foundation will be part of the reason it is because it make small as well as large dreams come true for every part of the community and surrounding area.
  • Would love to see a proper theatre in town. We have so much talent in our small community.
  • A community that is open to all and supportive of every citizen – a well-rounded lifestyle with healthy activities that support the arts.
  • To have a better recycling program and promote a more carbon neutral community.
  • Prosperity and growth. Expansion of the CC campus. More diversity. Keeping our children close.
  • A theatre where Quesnel arts and culture activities can have their own home.
  • To have a sustainable community with a diverse economy that supports small, medium, and large businesses. It should be able to feed itself. It should use renewable energy. It should support itself.
  • Full-service garbage trucks. Trucks with a split body that will pick up recyclables as well as solid waste.
  • Make Dragon Lake accessible for youth and those who don’t live on the lake. A wharf to fish from. Only Legion Beach is available. We really need accesses opened up. All points are overgrown and blocked by private properties – think about all lakes – fishing with kids is valuable and with such a great lake it is a shame only some can access it.
  • Must not lose the old Fraser River Bridge! (x2)
  • We really need more activities for wintertime.
  • I want to see a huge theatre here in our city. Our children are all so talented, and this is needed the most.
  • A place without prejudice, homophobia and lack of acceptance so that all our citizens feel safe and loved.
  • A safe crossing for bikes and walkways into Southhills (over or under the highway). Extend the river walk.
  • To be a better community without bullying.
  • Quesnel is my town now. We moved here eight months ago from Romania. We chose Quesnel because we like to live in a small community where the relationship is better and the people are friendlier. Also, we like the outdoor life, and BC is paradise for that.
  • A safe trail from Milburn Lake to Quesnel that horses and/or a horse and wagon can go to town and back without fighting with cars – to save gas!
  • Continue in its community growth. Have the City and CRD work in unison.
  • I want an art centre so every person in Quesnel (or traveling) could draw, paint, and sketch.
  • Clean air, sustainable forestry jobs, and more organic food grown locally.
  • Beautiful city and wonderful people.
  • How about a new arena?
  • A new skate park to ride my bike.
  • Idle free!!
  • For everyone to consume less and to recycle and for Quesnel to get an organics recycling program.
  • My dream for Quesnel is that it help people to find housing and jobs for people on low income.
  • Reduce the pollution and waste being made in this community. Keep it clean!
  • For Quesnel to grow and be a bigger community.
  • For us to prosper and to become environmentally friendly. For our children to be safe.
  • Need a bigger place (like the arena and arts centre to accommodate more than 300 people.
  • My dream is to have these kinds of fun things and fairs every day!
  • A Garden Club, a birdwatchers’ group, lots of community events.
  • My dream for Quesnel is to have better places to shop. More variety! Because right now we have to drive to other places and with high gas process and all the pollution, it’s not good.
  • Representatives from all the various countries of origin to bring their flags and put them where the books are that we signed that indicated where we were born.
  • Put up a plaque in recognition of the Scandinavian people who came to Quesnel, helping to build the community to where it is today.
  • A bike-friendly city. Extend the River Walk. An international airport.
  • To be a community that is strong, healthy, “Green,” and sustainable, where we reduce our carbon foot=print, support our local economy, and encourage real food production, reduce our use and dependence on fossil fuels, and do more with less.
  • Healthy, active people.
  • Build a bypass and clean up the problem on Front Street and 97 north through Quesnel’s downtown.
  • No more stinky air – pulp mill smell gone.
  • Anything that supports the arts and social structure of our community. Performing arts centre, fireworks on Canada Day, or Halloween … maybe New Year’s?
  • More for children, sports, skateboard, church foundation, kids’ camps.

What is your dream for the Quesnel Community Foundation?

  • The size of the endowment will be able to sustain itself in perpetuity.
  • To welcome and support the dreams of the people of Quesnel – to be the light that guides these dreams … that helps realize them.
  • To reach $1Million by 2010.
  • To create grants for the minority groups in the city.
  • To listen to our youth, then act appropriately on the ideas. Let young folk know the are our future.
  • To support our future by acknowledging our past through a new Museum.
  • To reach 1 million in assets
  • To continue supporting not only sport but art societies – without the arts there is no music, color, imagination or joy …
  • Sustainable fund for future generations. So far so good – keep up the good work!
  • To continue to grow the legacy and to continue helping the small community organizations not only in Quesnel but throughout the district that is centered on Quesnel.
  • To continue to find the wonderful organizations to support – that struggle to survive – those groups that make our community rich and diverse. The last 10 years have shown such amazing growth in the arts – Front Street brass, After Eight, Kersley Musical Theatre, new life in Gold Pan City Dance, new and emerging artists.
  • To reach any goals they have so they can keep supporting the people of Quesnel who want to make a brighter future.
  • Keep supporting community groups big or small because the benefits these groups have on Quesnel society are immense.
  • To adopt a high-profile position promoting fine arts, career opportunities, and lifestyle benefits for our youth. This can be accomplished through assistance and promotion of organizations or groups that provide youth experiences they might not otherwise have the opportunity to experience.
  • Accumulate enough funding to start funding program costs such as ice time, instructor fees, etc., for kid and adult programs.
  • Bigger !! for all the volunteers in each club – that make Quesnel the place to be and give them support for their projects. Go Quesnel!
  • A huge pile of money that generates lots of dollars of income to be presented to community groups to allow non-profit groups to grow and serve the community.
  • A large enough encapital endowment so that all facilities can be supported.
  • To keep the people together, and organize different acitvities for this reason. Many people don’t want to be active in community work, so the first thing is to change their mentality.
  • That it is able to fulfill all their dreams in whatever they do.
  • Spread the money around.