“make the best with what you’ve got…”

I want to share something I read today with you. It’s a post from New Geography, titled “A Local Graduation: How Small Towns Can Come Back.” The post, written by Sylvia L. Lovely, describes that we might best help our communities not by looking out, but by looking in. She deems this movement “localism,” and further defines it as the desire to “make the best with what you’ve got.”

I’m encouraged about the work we are doing together in Faulkton–it feels like we’re on the right track. We’re working hard to realize opportunity that is rooted in the local community, to “make the best with what we’ve got.”

I encourage you to read the article in its entirety (it’s good stuff), and leave you with another great phrase from Lovely’s article… “We need to embrace what we’ve got and not try so hard to be something we’re not.”

Thanks for all your hard work. We’re off into a new year together!