Viewpoints Board
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Archive for June 18th, 2008

HOPE

2 comments June 18th, 2008

At last evening’s Community Viewpoints Board we talked what
Rockford needs to make this the kind of community in which we are proud and happy to live. After a great deal of discussion, Ray Garcia summed it up as “you have to have HOPE”. I felt as if I was struck by a lightning bolt … could it be if we identify what hope means to each and every of our citizens that would it lead us to the answers?