WAKE COMMUNITY WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR ....

Wake Community hopes all grassroots/public policy activists and groups will move beyond inside the box cookie cutter solutions in tackling the challenges we face locally and statewide.

Sometimes others can say things better than ourselves and I draw upon a quote by Mark Kleinschmidt, a Chapel Hill Town Council Member, speaking on former Chapel Hill resident, Town Council member and homosexual advocate Joe Herzenberg:

"He didn't move to New York and make a lot of money and complain with his friends over cocktails about the plight of poor people in the South," Kleinschmidt said. "... He was an activist in the real sense of the word: He was active."

In other words, he didn't forward emails, set up facebook groups or head down to the local eatery to hear a monthly speech.

Judges 8:4