Leadership in Action
Brockway community members have gone through Study Circles, leadership training, visioning and made action plans to make their community better. That was a first time that such a diverse group had gotten together to examine their past and their future and looked at poverty. They so enjoyed the process they had promised to do it every few years. Poverty could best be defined as lack of resources in the small dying town that no longer has a grade school but used to be the largest cattle shipping site in MT because of it’s location half way between the Missouri and the Yellowstone. Now as the population ages, lack of resources means lack of medical care - no dentist, no optometrist or pharmacist and only one physician assistant in the whole county. They are proud to be the first Medical Assistance Facility in the nation offering short term medical care in the clinic attached to the nursing home. They are an independent resilient group used to making do. That includes taking someone elses’s used item (the Wolf Point Stampede chute) and recycling it for the Brockway Dairy Day rodeo. That’s good collaboration between communities and fellow rodeo supporters.
The Brockway Horizons steering committee came together as a group and has worked with the Brockway Commercial Club to work together to help keep the effort started in the Brockway Community moving forward. The partnership with MSU Extension and the Northwest Area Foundation has been a huge help to the community. We will always be grateful to the Northwest Area Foundation and the hand up and help that their efforts have provided to our community.