The year 2025 seems like a long way off, but then again, it’s hard to believe it’s 2006 already. So really, 20 years down the road isn’t too far away.

The folks in Hansville and its surrounding communities have realized this and are doing what they can to make sure the area retains the charm that attracted them there in the first place — small town, quiet, quaint, rural and friendly.

For the past year, representatives from various groups and neighborhoods in the Greater Hansville Area have been researching what currently exists in the area, from utilities to health and human services. Now it’s up to you, the resident, to help this planning committee determine whether its work is going to pay off. Representing Hansville, Cliffside, Eglon, Little Boston and all communities in between, the group wants to know if it has done its work properly.

Take a few minutes this weekend to go over the documents at www.hansville.org under the Hansville Futures Project link. You may learn something you didn’t know about the very community you live in.

Then take your findings, questions and comments to the public workshop at 7 p.m. April 6 at the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribal Center and put forth your two cents about where you think the GHA should be in 2025. Current and future generations will thank you.