From: Becky McCray
Sent: Fri Oct 18 13:57:54 2019
To: Leota Childress
Cc: Christie DeSantis; Dan Huff; DeLise Palumbo; Elizabeth Klein; Gerald Fisher; Alice Cannon; Chaunee Seifried; Frank Schoenfeld; Jody Newland; Keith Swigart; Terry Shankle
Subject: Re: One year after my visit, Colfax has a new shared space!
Importance: Normal
Leota, this is awesome! So many positive steps. And even when you have a setback, Molalla keeps going!
Combining the new celebration with the existing festival was so smart! You’ve breathed new life into a tradition and started a great new thing.
Amazing to stop and realize just how much has happened. Thank you for the kind words about my talk at RDI. I’m thrilled the information has been useful. Hope to find an event and be back in Oregon soon.
Cheers,
Becky
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 11:51 AM Leota Childress <leotachildress@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Becky,
Thank you for sharing the story of Colfax. It is exciting to see what small towns across America are accomplishing. And, thank you for asking us to share. I am a City Councilor, Co-Project Manager for Community Visioning, and Community Builder. It is often easy to get bogged down in the present and plans for the future that we fail to look at the past. There have been so many exciting things happen her in Molalla over the past year or so.
Molalla is a rural town in Oregon with a population of roughly 10,000. Portland State University will provide their bi-annual report soon so we'll have updated numbers. We are a crossroads in that two State Highways intersect in Molalla. One, Hwy 211, is Molalla's main street. We are fortunate to have a City Council and City Manager who have no political agenda and work very well together. Each one is dedicated to Molalla and the community.
I am copying the City Council and Management staff on this email. Like me, they may not realize how much has been done. I'm sure they'll have even more accomplishments to add!
Again, thank you for your updates. I heard you speak at a Rural Development Initiatives conference a couple of years ago and still refer to my notes. You further inspired me to revitalize downtown.
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 2:14 PM Becky McCray <becky@saveyour.town> wrote:
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Becky McCray