In October 2004, the local school children were asked what they would like to see in Chignik's future. The following summarizes their input as provided by them, the future the leaders:
*Improve airport runway for cargo jets to land
*Establish a local flying service to have direct flights to Anchorage
*Develop a business that community members can work during the winter months - perhaps this business would attract people to stay and work in Chignik
*Community Co-op store - this would provide jobs
*Elder facility (to keep elders in village like a nursing home) this would create jobs
*Mini campus/dorms
-- take college courses
-- get training
*Beauty shop/Espresso shop
*Factory where fishermen and women make their fish into a product like smoked packaged fish
*Veterinarian clinic, animal kennel/shelter for the Chigniks and surrounding villages
*We need a STORE all year; We need a tsunami shelter
*Starbucks
*Widen the airport, lengthen the airport, ski lodge, hunting lodge, new airport building
*New post office, new dock, new community hall, beauty shop and nail shop
*Roads connecting villages, better airport, tsunami shelter, grocery store, teen center, movie theater, skate park for BMX, roller blading, skateboards, first care hospice for elders
*Apartment building, Starbucks with a beauty salon
*Tsunami shelter across the bay with a road
*Swimming pool at the school, ammo store, pet store, Taco Bell, bigger playgound, hospital, Chucky Cheese
*Walmart, raise the price of fish, bigger school, more food for the elders
*Dog pound, horse ranch, flower shop, Pizza Hut, Burger King, McDonalds, mall, AC store, Chinese restaurant
*Merry Go Round - Trampoline; A swimming pool for everyone a restaurant
*Make a program for the youth in the winter time so they can make some money and a summer program to make money; Get real cement roads; Have a basketball and volleyball court open year-round
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