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a leader is someone that uh I don't mind
following or someone that'll teach me
more than I already know someone that
will help me to help someone else I feel
a good leader must be able to see
further down the road than the folks
that he's trying to lead a quality in
good Community leadership is standing
for what you believe in but also that
when you make a mistake in your decision
that you man enough want say hey I made
a mistake we going on the wrong path
leadership Rural America today faces
staggering problems to solve them each
Community needs leaders who understand
the people and the
situations our state capitals and
Washington can't and shouldn't fill all
of our needs for us first we should look
to ourselves for leadership because some
surprising new leaders are emerging in Rural
Rural
America Jackie Wartman is an individual
who particularly comes to mind I've
known Jackie for several years and have
known her to be a very progressiv minded
uh sensitive and concerned individual
particular when it comes to the needs of
disadvantaged people and I've seen
Jackie as the type of person who has
both the concern and the energy to try
to do something about
it I sit out to help people and I end up
helping them I do door knocking voter
registration and basically I go to talk
to people just to see if they have any
problems that I could help them
with we really didn't had no Road
through here it wasn't a passable but
since Jack and those been working on it
they the one got this road through here
she has well for for the fact I said she
worked on this road she pushed P you
know she went around and she got
everybody to communicate with her to get
here and this lady was saw funeralized
today oh Lord she have did wonderful for
that lady she was in that old house down
there and then I don't know have y'all
saw the house or
not but she worked and worked and worked
till she got her in that trailer but
when we pulled it out she started crying
and even the day we moved her in she
started crying that day and she said I'm
actually going to sleep in my house and
I said yes you're going to sleep in your
house and after that Sheryl and I went
to different communities and different
churches raising monies and we raised
enough money to buy all the stuff that
was in her house and she enjoyed
everything and every time we came in she
would say there come my children I first
met Jackie she was working in the church
and doing various things in the
community that impressed me with her uh
her ability to work with people and her
concern concern for people and I thought
that that uh uh leadership quality that
she had could be greatly enhanced if she
developed uh a few more skills that she
needed then as we moved her into
Fairfield United action as she became
part of the organization she came to
understand a broader Vision a vision
that was about how we improve an entire
community and now she's understanding
not only a community but a state and a
nation as her vision broaden
and it feel like that I'm doing
something that I was put here for and I
didn't realize my task until I met John
and kamayu and they taught me how to
organize and I went out into the
community and I began door knocking and
it just gave me a good feeling that I
was actually doing something for other
myself the Laurel Community which is
made up of several Creek valleys on the
on the far side of Madison County is
isolated I think because of that
isolation the people there have retained
a lot of the values that the mountains
are known for yeah Mars Hill where my
mom and dad went is about 30 35 miles
you know and uh I remember spending
maybe all day going take my mother or
daddy there to get medical care and
theyd spend the whole day and my mom
especially she'd be exhausted when she
get home and I felt it must a better way
than that so that's how come me get
involved again leaders often come forth
when they realize a deep personal need
is shared by their neighbors farmer
Dennis Tweed is an example he helped
bring a medical clinic to his isolated
Mountain Community I guess uh being a
dreamer as I am I just could uh like to
see a better
facility Dennis learned that money was
available for a new Clinic if the
community would pitch in and buy the
land when we've had the first meeting we
said at the meeting we were going to
have a medical center of some sort we
didn't know how big or how fine or
whatever but we intended to have one
everybody got involved we had many
volunteers who was excited as I was in
fact everybody was chomping into bits
the night before we set out on the
fundraising drive because they wanted to
get started the next day and uh you get
the people work together and there's not
very much you can't accomplish you know
and we had that we had 100% coroporation
I don't know if one person that I uh
approached or worked with or came in
contact during all that time that was
negative about it because um some would
give 20 cents some give $20 some uh my
neighbor brought me I believe it was
$600 to my house so uh everybody gave
something though those
people I think were drawn out in the
process because of the the need and
because they saw that this facility and
this progam program this health program
was going to be theirs they were able to
to get those points across in in a
language that was familiar with the
community people and so I think the
process and the the uh the product of
this process Drew those people out of
their their
leaders
one of the keys to community leadership
is persistence never giving up the
Dunbar Community never wavered from its
dream of a community center even though
it took years to
realize Forest Pitman a disabled Bakery
worker joined the Dunbar Community
Development Club soon after moving to
the area within a few years he was
elected president and set about to find
a way to put a building on land the club
already owned he was convinced that just
because people live in the country they
shouldn't have to give up certain things
I think it was in 1975 we had wrote Mr
Joe maretic of the state legisl Ry for
some fors to help and he wrote his back
and said money was a little bit scared
but when to come available he would
think about it so in 84 I was a delegate
to Democrat convention and I met him in
poison and I talked with him after that
he came out here and he told us that he
thought he could get us some help so in
85 he got us a $40,000 masching Grant
but it would had to be used in a
historical type
building and that money would have to be
matched by US Forest contacted local
agencies for assistance and he went to
the public library to look up names and
addresses of foundations that might help
and it takes some hard work and most of
all you don't give up we have wrote a
lot of foundation we got announc that
they was unable to participate at this
time after all they thought it was a
good project but we didn't stop riding
we just kept on writing you you have to
to keep on pushing you can't give up on
like that I look at far Pitman as being
a leader that had not been
unveiled I think that his role with the
Dumar Community has unveiled his
leadership abilities
for example when we got the grant of
$40,000 that was mansion and everybody
just said well gosh we can't do it far
Pitman said we can do it we must do it
and it's
done okay you pin that right
there this Center serves as a light it
says to community leaders that with good
planning working your plans and being
persistent that you can have a success
story I look at this Center as as being
not a final accomplishment of the Dumar
Community but I look at it as being a
things this used to be
the community organizations succeed when
everyone feels they're a part of what's
Happening that's the case at the kohari
intertribal council where the emphasis
is on the group not the individual Jane
Jacobs is council president
our people has always had a lot of Pride
and they've always stood independently
you know of themselves but yet they've
always seen the need to stand together
too uh to work together uh any your
people if you find if you give them a
goal that they want to obtain they work
hard together to get it done they're
easy to work with kind of people you
just got to tell them exactly what's
going on what it's all about and what
it's for yes I checked the water PH in
it and it's fine since we had all that
rain it all looks good they're eating
real well and there's no disease you
haven't detected any disease on the fish
or anything whatsoever catfish Farms are
a new idea in Samson County the council
created a demonstration project to raise
money for tribal needs and to set an
example for
individuals she persuaded me to take
this job I said I know nothing about
agriculture but she said we'll learn she
gives me the freehand to try different
ideals that I have like if I say I think
this will work better than what we have
learned from the workshop she'll say try
it to me that's the
leader someone that's willing to give
you your space to try to expand as well
as themselves I like to push people
rather than lead a person I like to kind
of be behind the scenes and tell them
they can do it and get them you know to
apply themselves to it and and try it
because I believe that anything you want
to do you can do it I've noticed
something in Jane that I've always
admired she goes out for the underdog
the person that she sees that's sort of
shy and don't want to do those are the
push you have to get above the point of
just looking at self and being concerned
about self and looking at what can we do
as a community as a whole a lot of folks
out there have skills to be leaders
they often don't know that they have
those skills they don't believe that
they have those skills a key piece of a
training program like Community Voices
is to bring folks together to explore
how they can change their communities
and understand the power that they already
possess communities do benefit when new
leaders come forth and share their ideas
and energy the greater good comes When
leaders help bring along other leaders
Community Voices strongly believes in
this idea of growing new leaders
Community Voices is leadership
development to make this happen all over Rural
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