Evan Jones, President of SCB, received an email from Mayor Sammy DeMarco of the City of Shinnston. Below is the text of this email. Everyone associated with SCB should be extremely proud to be held in such high regard with the City Administration.

President Evan Jones
The Shinnston Community Band
July 3, 2008

Dear Evan,

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and the members of the Shinnston Community Band for sharing your talents in providing a wonderful evening for the citizens of the Shinnston area on July 1 at the Shinnston City Park. The Shinnston Community Band is a great asset for the city and provides us an opportunity to help obtain our goals. Recently the Blueprint Community team set goals and the city has adopted these goals. As you can see with the list of goals below this event touches all of our goals and thus aides the City in trying to fulfill its mission:

Goal #1. To improve the health and well-being of the residents of Shinnston.
Goal #2. To increase the skills, knowledge and ability of Shinnston residents to engage in community development activities.
Goal #3. To improve relationships and communications among Shinnston’s key stakeholders. Goal #4. To increase social capital by building relationships and strengthening the community’s capacity to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate collaborative efforts.
Goal #5. To increase cultural and recreational assets to improve the quality of life for residents of Shinnston.
Goal #6. To increase investments in community resources and infrastructure.
Goal #7. To improve the ecosystem of the Shinnston Community.

Again, please pass on to your members that the City of Shinnston is proud of them and we thank them for a job well done. The signs the City has placed on the entrances to town stating “The Home of the Shinnston Community Band” really shows our feelings on how proud we are of this group of fine musicians. Again, the City thanks you and your members for a job well done!!!!!!!!!!

Mayor Sammy J. DeMarco
City of Shinnston