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—Barbara
Miller, Project Director "As a major asset to the Uptown neighborhood, the Mother Lode and Orphan Girl Theatres provide a key entertainment, educational and social resource….We are proud to join forces with IMAGINE BUTTE as it strives to reach out to each household to obtain data about what people find most successful in this area. It appears to us that the efforts of IMAGINE BUTTE will help to integrate the community into a cohesive, hardworking, self-reliant group of people with vision, hope and a dream for the future….Oscar Hammerstein may have said it best in a lyric from "South Pacific:" You gotta
have a dream —Helene
Guthrie Miller, President, Board of Directors
—Dr.
Joanne G. Cortese, Professor Emeritus,
—William
Bartholomew, Principal, “The whole concept of focusing on Butte's successes and positive history is very important at this time in our evolution as a community. We are in full support of this process and will be happy to provide any assistance we can as the Archives and I can personally. Thanks for taking the initiative on.” —Ellen
Crain, Director “As a Butte native, a business owner and a parent, I view this program as an essential tool for restoring the City of Butte. Butte has an incredible history and is situated in the best location in the country. We need to take this step forward to enhance the existing infrastructure and generate new and productive interest in Butte.” —Janel
Madrazo “Butte needs the vision of all its people to be the basis of a new identity. Our businesses support IMAGINE BUTTE because it has the potential to energize our community …. We urge other organizations in town to support this effort, and we look forward to seeing the outcomes of the imagination of our people and the improvements to our town due to the energy that happens when we work together.” —John
J. Taras “It is time to stand up and make our community a better place. Imagine Butte will be focusing on revitalization of neighborhoods as a means of showing pride in our community…. This is a town effort…. As a representative of the School District, I see the need and commend the efforts of the IMAGINE BUTTE group and look forward to continued involvement in this program.” —Charles
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"By working cooperatively,
the town can obtain the support it needs to transition to a sustainable,
desirable future with resources and advantages for all our people.
Our organization pledges support and will actively seek resources
on behalf of IMAGINE BUTTE from community development foundations
and housing related agencies that can help support this planning
action. If ever a town needed this assistance, it is Butte. If
ever a town were better suited for success, it is Butte."
"Butte has so many assets to build on, and
it is time to gather the united power that this town can generate
when so many wonderful people work together on a dream and a
vision. At present, the neighborhood we are working in Butte
so desperately needs the support this type of effort will generate….We
also … see that this effort dovetails with the Habitat "21st
Century Challenge" to lay a detailed, workable plan to eliminate
poverty housing in Butte within a foreseeable period of time….Butte,
as the CAN DO city, will meet the challenge."
"It's time to achieve
a balance between Butte's astounding past and what lays ahead
for our city's future. This is why Mainstreet Uptown Butte strongly
supports Imagine Butte as a mechanism to get a collaborative
vision developed for Butte, to energize its younger people to
use their imaginations to help solve long-standing challenges…much
needed formal neighborhood revitalization plans will allow private
and public investment … and we hope will result in valuable
market analysis information about the nearly 100 small businesses
in our historic Uptown district to better …support their
growth and expansion in coming years."