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Profile Information
- Name or User Name
- Belinda
- Population of Your Town
- 15,000
- What is Best About Your Town?
- The variety of people, events, and restaurants. We are in a tourist area where people have moved in from a lot of different places. They have brought businesses and interesting ideas to our region.
- What does Your Town Need Most?
- An understanding of collaboration.
- Tell us a Bit about Yourself
- I am partial to small towns. After living in places like Portland and Seattle, where the traffic alone increases my stress level, never mind random crime, people who ram my grocery cart and decibel levels in fine restaurants. Maybe I’m just too old to enjoy those particular challenges anymore. It’s true I would rather spend a morning listening to the birds and figuring out how to build a business in the back of beyond than try to get across any urban town.
I have mostly lived and worked in small towns from populations of 800 to around 20,000 as a grant writer, community development and economic development professional. My goal is to see members of non-profits and residents of small towns to build capacity and create sustainability.
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James Reams & The Barnstormers
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Shoot the Moon Music & Auction
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Belinda's Blog
Bear Watch
Well, we moved across the valley to a small town-estimated size 4600 residents--not including the bears. I can't believe I'm living in a place where bears frequent the backyards. Neighbors say things like, "Oh yes, the bears can be a nuisance if you don't keep your garbage cans tied d… Continue
Posted on July 5, 2008 at 8:45am —
Time and Stories to Share
I don’t embrace life—I struggle with it. I find it precarious and I’m sure the fault lies with my third grade teacher, who read us John Steinbeck novels at nap time and graphically explained there were no absolutes anywhere in the universe. Grandma 
Banta, my 70 year-old small town neighbor,… Continue
Banta, my 70 year-old small town neighbor,… Continue Posted on March 25, 2008 at 9:00am —
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