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would make themselves heard. But the process was too carefully planned. The facilitators were professionals who had recently been trained to keep these small groups in focus and on task; and the polling of ideas provided even tighter focus. The "Aha!" moment was real. It was one of those rare moments when almost 100 people from all different cultures, ages, economic and educational backgrounds felt joined by their shared values and visions. This moment defined the organic growth of EnVision Downtown Hilo 2025. Workshop #4 After this successful workshop, the committee was eager to plan the next one. October and November were spent consolidating the mountain of data collected in the third workshop and integrating the data from the first two workshops. And, in the meantime, the logo was finalized with the pl-o bono assistance of a graphic designer and a Web site www.hilo2025.o[g was developed by a volunteer. The Workshop Content subcommittee tallied all the comments and drafted mini vision statements for each focus area. The Workshop Content subcommittee also reviewed and recorded the cards collected at Workshop #3 on which participants wrote the one thing they valued most about downtown Hilo. From this information and some applicable comments collected at the other workshops, a Values Statement emerged. These draft values and vision statements would be presented to the community at the next workshop for review, revision, and validation. Community Workshop #4 would produce the community's shared vision for Downtown Hilo 2025 and would become the basis of the Living Action Plan. The Workshop Content subcommittee drafted a vision idea matrix, which broke down the vision ideas for each focus area. The fourth community workshop took place on December 4, 2004, at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. It was a blustery Saturday and turnout was lighter than the steering committee Facilitator Barbara Lively makes • would have liked, but it was not a surprise since report—Workshop #4 there were several very popular competing events in the community that day. Despite the light attendance, workshop discussions were insightful and productive. Once again, with Steven Ames' expert guidance, the community validated the vision ideas from previous workshops by polling its top vision ideas and by adding new ideas to the matrices which had been reproduced on large easel pads. As in previous workshops, public input was recorded on these large easel pads and also e ~~ on private evaluation forms. Finally the community e 19