What do kids want?

NARROWSBURG, NY — On July 13, the playground in the Flats—a residential neighborhood in Tusten—beamed with brightly colored slips of paper, pinned to chain-link fences and garden mesh.

Kids around the area had spent a little over an hour coming up with ideas for improving their communities and writing those ideas on the slips of paper. Twenty to 30 kids of all ages contemplated questions like, “What do you do for fun?” and “What do you want to see in your town?”

The evening’s discussions were part of a series called “Let’s Talk.”

The Tusten Youth Commission and the River Reporter co-hosted the event, which followed up on a booth the River Reporter set up at the youth commission’s Fourth of July festival.

The evening’s goal: to get kids’ thoughts on the shape of their futures, to help guide the adults who could turn those ideas into reality.

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