Visioning: Your Community Needs You

What's Happened?

On June 10th, the Grand Coulee Area Chamber of Commerce sponsored a community meeting at the Senior Center in Grand Coulee so community people could take control and offer ideas to reduce poverty and improve the community for everyone.

The Horizons Project is moving into the Visioning phase. The article Community center meeting calls for another bigger one --Momentum builds for a new facility

in the Star Online notes:

"The goal of the meeting is to gain an approval in principlel for the community center goal from as many facets of the community as possible.

Items up for discussion will include considering:

• what types of facilities should be included in the overall plan, such as a swimming pool/aquatic center, small convention facility, daycare, gym, skate rink,

• possible location sites,

• funding possibilities."


What's Happening?

Community members will address the ideas from the Action Forum and move forward with skills developed at Leadership Plenty to form partnerships (like with the Chamber of Commerce, Hospital, Government, etc.), form a 501c3, and apply for grants to achieve the community's vision.

Next week, Wednesday June 17 at 6:30 p.m. at the Grand Coulee Senior Center, come as a community member to take the next steps in moving towards a common vision for Nespelem, Elmer City, Coulee Dam, Grand Coulee, and Electric City.

Please bring your ideas and join the future.

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HORIZONS: Community Leaders Reducing Poverty
Working together to move from poverty to prosperity for all.


Mary Schilling at 633 3033 or email at mschilling@gcdsd.org


Learn more about the Horizons program http://horizons.wsu.edu/

An Opportunity for Thanks

From Leadership Plenty

Jesse, Nate, and Amanda thanked Cathy McMorris-Rodgers for her help and guidance in our local school issue.

Congressional aides, state senators and representatives, federal authorities, and school officials had gathered in our local schools on November 12th to tour and talk about the questionable status of our local school facilities. This is indeed one of our local needs as those officials agreed that:

• The district needs new schools.

• School building funding is difficult.

School district board Chair Donna DeWinkler, and Sheila Stalp, deputy director for U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, who represents Washington’s fifth congressional district in the nation’s capitol, arranged the tour and discussion.

Our HORIZONS Leadership Plenty Team took the opportunity to thank U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers after she spoke at noon on December 3rd to the attendees at the HORIZONS Conference in Spokane at the Washington State University campus.

For more information on the school building issue, see this article in The Star newspaper.

Public Relations Training: Take Control

From Leadership Plenty

Pamela Roberts of Washington State University, Jefferson County Extension 4-H Youth Development shared her expertise on blogging to the advanced bloggers of the HORIZONS Project. We learned to take control of our shots to create a story and history of our progress to eliminate poverty.

Photo credit: Pamela Roberts, Horizons-PR.