McMorris-Rodgers Recognizes HORIZONS

From Leadership Plenty

Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, Representative for Eastern Washington, spoke to the participants of the Leadership Plenty Training Conference in Spokane.

She acknowledged the excellent work of local communities whose grass-roots organization has been driven by the HORIZONS grant and training.

She recognized the local efforts in communities, such as Northport and Springdale, whose area residents understand that each person holds a capacity for leadership. These community members added their own leadership role and invited more members to share their leadership to solve the needs of each community. Community parks, farmers markets, and community centers were the result of ordinary citizens believing they could make change for the better, thus allowing extraordinary results.

Representative McMorris-Rodgers pointed to the possibilities for growth in Eastern Washington based on what already exists: excellent medical records facilitation and new energy resources, as examples. By building from what we have using the people resources of communities, our prospects for the future will grow. The HORIZONS Project proves this to be true. Click on “Community Mobilization” in the sidebar for recent news of our community to see how our residents have begun the HORIZONS Way of grass-roots solutions to community needs.

Please come to the next meeting, December 11th, 5:30-8:30 PM, in the Community Church in Coulee Dam to help begin our action process for our community.