HELP US GET A GERERAL DOLLAR STORE IN ODIN!
Starting today,
12/18/24 the ORDC and the Odin Village Board have started a campaign to
convince the Dollar General Corporate Office to place a store in Odin.
Last month the Village Trustees wrote a letter to the corporation
and officially asked for a store. A Dollar General representative
contacted Mayor Greg Smith several days later and said they would
consider it but that it is unlikely to happen because the Salem DG store
is 4.6 miles away.
The Dollar
General Corporate website states, “DG is proud to be America’s
neighborhood general store.”
Our response is – Then please give us a neighborhood store, in
Odin!.
The people of
Odin do not claim Salem or Sandoval or Centralia as their neighborhood.
Odin is our neighborhood and we have a site picked out on Highway
50 that is perfect for a new store.
We have a large enough population to support a store. Odin has
people who want to work in the store. We have many people who would
willingly shop at an Odin DG store for food and household items.
We are going to
convince them to give us a store. Today we began circulating petitions
for signatures and personal written stories that we will mail to the DG
Corporation the first week of January.
There are 1565 residents off Odin Township. We urge everyone join
our campaign by signing one of the petitions OR writing a personal note
about why you want a store, how it will impact your family etc.
Here are the two
forms if you want to print your own. There are many copies at the
Village Hall and Pam will be encouraging everyone who enters the
building to sign it. The form is going out to the churches and ORDC
members have forms. We need your help.
Please return
the forms to Odin Village Hall by 10 am on December 30. Our team will
then send everything in a certified letter to the Dollar General CEO. If
you have questions please contact our team leader, Vicki Vaughn at --
618-231-5322 or send a message in Messenger.
**Come out and Support Odin!
ORDC--Odin Community Needs Survey
Click Final Report below for PDF of Report
Community Needs Assessment of the
Village of Odin
&
Odin Township
by
Odin
Renewal
& Development
Committee
O.R.D.C. - Caps for
Benches Project
This year ORDC decided to bring back the “Green Tree Plastics
Caps Program” to gain enough caps to make benches for Odin school.
We
are accepting all clean, dry caps from most containers shown below.
