Come Visit the Rockford Community Center

The Rockford Community Center is open. We are located at 229 South First, just behind the Methodist Church. Current hours of operation are Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM and evenings from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. The center is currently staffed by volunteers. If you would like to become a volunteer and help staff the center give us a call at 291-3605. The more volunteer staff we have the more hours the center can be made available to our community and of course, kids are always welcome.
If you are looking for a place to hold a meeting or teach a class, give us a call. If you have other questions please call me at 220-6779.

Rockford Horizons Receives Community Award

On November 18, 2009 the Town of Rockford received a Community "Hometown Heroes" Award from Inland Northwest Partners. We were nominated by Paul Kimmell of Avista for the stream bank work (funded by local donations) as well as the Rockford Horizons program. The award was presented at a luncheon in which Mary Lou Benson (pictured) received the plaque from Joe Tortorelli, Board member of INP. Our group sincerely appreciates this recognition for our community and it is stimulating that the our endeavors are being noticed.

Stategic Poverty Reduction Plan (2009-2012)

The following is a summary of the visioning sessions which identify the strategies that were most likely to succeed.

Short Term (2009-2010)
Grow a flourishing community garden
Improved nutrition and food quality in the community
Create/update community calendar
Identify wireless/broadband customer base
Create community access center
Sponsor venues to show what town wants and will support through a
"floating" center
Create the Rock Creek Internet Cafe

Intermediate Term (2010-2011)
Educate people to use garden produce in nutritious and affordable ways and to
preserve the surplus
Create/expand town website
Identify wireless/broadband suppliers
Keep Horizons Blog up-to-date

Long Term (2011-2012)
Grow surplus food to be given to area food bank to help others and for
sale at Farmers Market
Negotiate a mutually agreeable boradband/wireless contract
Create a town placemat
Plan, finance, build/buy our own community center building

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