Social media is often a sounding board for some people and oftentimes, the ideas and issues stop there.

Curt Homann, the Director of the DeWitt County Development Council, saw some conversation among a young group of individuals in Farmer City on social media and wanted to do more for them. That's why he's started a focus group of individuals under the age of 40 in Farmer City with another forming in Clinton soon.

In Farmer City, the conversations centered a lot around housing and Homann was surprised to find out the absence of a grocery store in Farmer City was not something that this group felt strongly about. 

Homann has been impressed by the community focus of the group in Farmer City. He explains they are going to be doing some fundraising intending to take up projects to improve the community this spring.

Homann notes the Clinton under-40 focus group should be getting off the ground soon. He encourages anyone interested in that group to keep tabs on the DCDC Facebook page as that will be where information is released as the details roll out.