Community
And so, my fellow West Virginians: ask not what your "community" can do for you - ask what you can do for your "community".
It takes a village to raise a child! We no longer are raising our children as a village! We barely know our neighbors - how can we be involved in the life of the kid around the corner. We must have a sense of community for our children to grow up to be valuable members of society. One that teaches them right from wrong, one that holds them accountable.
Once again there are many organizations working to improve our sense of community. Create WV is one such organization please read the following from their website:
Create WV is an independent grass roots organization launched by Vision Shared (www.visionshared.com) whose vision is to empower West Virginians at a local level to place themselves among the most innovative, dynamic, prosperous, creative communities in the world.
Our mission is to build creative communities for the new economy. Our strategies to achieve this include:
I also found this on their website. I had no idea!
West Virginia Needs a Bold Move to Grow College Graduates: Support Brains for Business
March 7, 2012
On behalf of Paul Daugherty and our friends at Generation West Virginia, we encourage you to contact your legislators regarding this bill. West Virginia is dead LAST in the percentage of adults with a college degree. It is crippling WV's ability to thrive in today's economy. We must make some bold moves to turn this around.
Bold Moves - I couldn't have said it better myself. We cannot keep doing the same things over and over expecting different results. Accountability is what keeps coming to my mind! I support helping others to improve their way of life but there have got to be some strings attached. Drug testing as a requirement for public assistance being an invasion of privacy. This should be a minimum requirement at best. Perhaps we should limit the right to vote to those who at least are willing to graduate from high school or get a GED, those who are working, going to school be it College, technical or trade, serving in the military or are disabled. If one is able to help himself then the expectation needs to be that he do so!
Some ideas:
Recognition - Our communities are full of volunteers working hard to better their communities. My father lives in Dunbar and has recently become home bound. Once a week their is a lady from the community, whom I have yet to meet, who stops by to visit with him, clean up a little and refresh a vase of fresh cut flowers. Every week new fresh cut flowers - what a blessing this is to my father, to my family and to me. Thank you mam for your love and care for my father!
Let's recognize and encourage these "servants" in a public setting. If you are serving in your community - I thank you!
Involvement - Get involved in your local police and fire departments. The City of Dunbar has an excellent police reserve program which introduces citizens of the community to the police force and allows them to come along side and increase police presence in our neighborhoods.
Creativity - Let's come together as concerned citizens for our local community, our state and our country. Together we can brainstorm solutions to our local communities to create environments that promote the betterment of all! We have so much potential in our communities - lets tap into already existing resources and make our communities better places to live.
Finally - We have got to maintain and create jobs! By creating jobs we will improve the lives of our children, our families and our communities. I have been working in manufacturing for 27 years. I know the capabilities of West Virginia workers first hand - I see it every day when I go to work at Toyota. We have so much potential! I am not content to sit around and wait to see what the future holds. Let's work together to create our own future - one full of opportunities for all of our citizens to reach their fullest potential.
As your representative in Washington D.C. I will make decisions that are in the best interest of our local communities.
It takes a village to raise a child! We no longer are raising our children as a village! We barely know our neighbors - how can we be involved in the life of the kid around the corner. We must have a sense of community for our children to grow up to be valuable members of society. One that teaches them right from wrong, one that holds them accountable.
Once again there are many organizations working to improve our sense of community. Create WV is one such organization please read the following from their website:
Create WV is an independent grass roots organization launched by Vision Shared (www.visionshared.com) whose vision is to empower West Virginians at a local level to place themselves among the most innovative, dynamic, prosperous, creative communities in the world.
Our mission is to build creative communities for the new economy. Our strategies to achieve this include:
- Empowering communities at a local level to build their own "create" team and build a new economy growth plan through training and consulting support
- Developing and launching commercial and social entreprenuership projects, businesses and initiatives that improve WV
- Supporting and initiating statewide policies for building creative community pillars: quality of place, diversity, technology, education and entrepreneurship
- Promoting West Virginia as a great place to create today to encourage artists, entrepreneurs and other creatives to live and create here!
I also found this on their website. I had no idea!
West Virginia Needs a Bold Move to Grow College Graduates: Support Brains for Business
March 7, 2012
On behalf of Paul Daugherty and our friends at Generation West Virginia, we encourage you to contact your legislators regarding this bill. West Virginia is dead LAST in the percentage of adults with a college degree. It is crippling WV's ability to thrive in today's economy. We must make some bold moves to turn this around.
Bold Moves - I couldn't have said it better myself. We cannot keep doing the same things over and over expecting different results. Accountability is what keeps coming to my mind! I support helping others to improve their way of life but there have got to be some strings attached. Drug testing as a requirement for public assistance being an invasion of privacy. This should be a minimum requirement at best. Perhaps we should limit the right to vote to those who at least are willing to graduate from high school or get a GED, those who are working, going to school be it College, technical or trade, serving in the military or are disabled. If one is able to help himself then the expectation needs to be that he do so!
Some ideas:
Recognition - Our communities are full of volunteers working hard to better their communities. My father lives in Dunbar and has recently become home bound. Once a week their is a lady from the community, whom I have yet to meet, who stops by to visit with him, clean up a little and refresh a vase of fresh cut flowers. Every week new fresh cut flowers - what a blessing this is to my father, to my family and to me. Thank you mam for your love and care for my father!
Let's recognize and encourage these "servants" in a public setting. If you are serving in your community - I thank you!
Involvement - Get involved in your local police and fire departments. The City of Dunbar has an excellent police reserve program which introduces citizens of the community to the police force and allows them to come along side and increase police presence in our neighborhoods.
Creativity - Let's come together as concerned citizens for our local community, our state and our country. Together we can brainstorm solutions to our local communities to create environments that promote the betterment of all! We have so much potential in our communities - lets tap into already existing resources and make our communities better places to live.
Finally - We have got to maintain and create jobs! By creating jobs we will improve the lives of our children, our families and our communities. I have been working in manufacturing for 27 years. I know the capabilities of West Virginia workers first hand - I see it every day when I go to work at Toyota. We have so much potential! I am not content to sit around and wait to see what the future holds. Let's work together to create our own future - one full of opportunities for all of our citizens to reach their fullest potential.
As your representative in Washington D.C. I will make decisions that are in the best interest of our local communities.