Glades Community Group Organizing

MOORE HAVEN, FL. -- A grass-roots alliance of community leaders in Glades
County has organized a coalition of Community Associations (of Glades
County), with the dedicated purpose of sharing ideas and solutions to
problems encountered among growing rural communities. This group will
serve the County by presenting the consensus of its communities to the
Board of County Commissioners addressing issues of county-wide importance,
as well as seeking to resolve those issues with direction from that Board.

Glades County has recognized and supported several Community Associations
including those in Buckhead Ridge, Indian Hills, Lakeport, Muse, Ortona,
Palmdale, Port LaBelle Ranchettes, River Oaks and Washington Park. In the
past, some received funding from the one-percent discretionary sales tax
collected in Glades County, which was approved by referendum vote for
capital improvements and recreation endeavors.

Interested Glades County community leaders are urged to attend the next
meeting May 3, at 7 p.m., at 3345 Coffee Mill Hammock Road in Ortona.
For more information, call Ellen Hawk Geake at 983.2922 or Donna Storter
at 675.8850. Those unable to attend are invited to submit issues, ideas,
suggestions for helping Glades County communities.