Host Families Needed for MN Design Team Visit

The Minnesota Design Team is coming to Cold Spring on the weekend of June 9-12 and community members will have the opportunity to host a Design Team member. The Design Team is a group of professional volunteers invited to the community to meet with residents and community leaders to help identify the community’s strengths, unique characteristics, challenges and goals for the future.

Host families are important one-to-one links between the community and the Design Team giving both hosts and guest a chance to exchange ideas about Cold Spring and what they hope to achieve from the visit. Many communities have discovered hosting is a good opportunity to involve community members who want to participate in the visit but may be uncomfortable in more visible roles.

The ideal host family can be young or old, long-time residents or newcomers, rural or town residents. Host families offer Design Team members with a place to stay on Thursday, Friday, and sometimes Saturday nights. They provide a private bedroom, breakfast each morning, and may extend other services such as transportation.

Several weeks before the visit, team member profiles will be made available to the host families. The profiles serve two purposes: they introduce the Design Team members to the host families and they help the host families choose a suitable match as some team members will have special requirements such as smoke or pet free homes or dietary considerations like vegetarian meals.

The Design Team members will arrive on Thursday night around 7 pm and will be excited to meet their host families. A relaxed gathering will be planned for that evening to help introduce Design Team members to their host families.

If you are interested in hosting a Design Team member or just want more information on this exciting opportunity contact Host Family Chair- Laurie Elvig at 685-3455.
Help Cold Spring roll out the welcome mat and show the Design Team what hospitality really means.