Russ Garner

1/2 🇨🇦 All 🇺🇸 | Rural/Small Town Renaissance is my jam | Map Junkie | Opinions mine

[USA Hockey @usahockey]

Feb. 22, 1980 in Lake Placid, N.Y. 📌

45 years ago today, the U.S. Men's Olympic Ice Hockey Team defeated the highly favored Soviets. A day that will forever be known as the Miracle on Ice 🤩

[Kirk Herbstreit @KirkHerbstreit]

Thank you again for all the outpouring of love for our Ben. I can’t tell you how much it means to me and my family.

He wasn’t just my best friend – he was America’s best friend ❤️

[CommunitiesUnlimited @CommunitiesU]

AL State Coord. Dinah Foreman was recently in Athens for a Strain Road Community Meeting.

Pictured are Kirk Parker (Community Leader), Dinah Foreman (CU), Dianne Steel (NAACP), and Pastor James Jamar (St. John Missionary Baptist Church)

More at https://t.co/No8cKZloPW

[CommunitiesUnlimited @CommunitiesU]

Episode 2 of our GIS podcast series is live! Join Trent Neathery from CU as we explore more of what GIS can help rural communities accomplish. #morethanamap

Listen live at https://t.co/fXe3dujv5E or anywhere you get podcasts

[CommunitiesUnlimited @CommunitiesU]

Our Community Sustainability team held a poverty simulator today in Texarkana in partnership with the Texarkana Homeless Coalition. Attendees learned what it was like to try and live a sustainable life when faced with inherit challenges that poverty creates.

[CommunitiesUnlimited @CommunitiesU]

Russ Garner from our Community Sustainability team was recently in Mountain City, #Tennessee to work on a project making their downtown more accessible with more improvements soon! Excited to be a part of the projects in Mountain City!

Read about it at https://t.co/ZryJjEZEal

[CDI Central @CDICentral]

Congratulations to: Danielle Housenick with Main Street Russellville, Kaitlyn Rigdon with the El Dorado-Union County Chamber of Commerce, and Anna Powell with the Hempstead County Economic Development Corporation!

[Russ Garner @duckmisser]

@CaptainVolding @AStateFB Because win or lose you post the score. It would be more cowardly not to post it.

[Russ Garner @duckmisser]

We are watching a Tom Clancy novel in real time

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

In opposition to Putin, the Russian people are out on the streets of Rostov, chanting:

“Wagner, Wagner, Wagner”

This is far from over…

[CommunitiesUnlimited @CommunitiesU]

New episode of the Small Talk Podcast ready for your 👂!

CU Area Director Of Housing, Audra Butler joins us for a 3 Episode series discussing housing in rural communities. Listen anywhere you get your podcasts (search Communities Unlimited) or at https://t.co/WEr92tawOH

[CommunitiesUnlimited @CommunitiesU]

Wednesday was the first CU Listening Stop for the Arkansas Broadband office. The stop was held at the 100 Families Facility with lots of input from underserved community members.

CU Community Sustainability staff and CU Area Director of Broadband Catherine Krantz facilitated.

[Russ Garner @duckmisser]

@reaper_overland @WxZachary Over Noxubee County, Mississippi

[Chance McDavid @chancemcdavid]

https://t.co/UXNQEfWvHa

[Rural Partners Network @RURALgov]

From grant writing to community coordination, RPN engages with Community Networks in impactful ways. Today, Community Networks in @RD_Mississippi attended a workshop in partnership with @RuralLISC & @CommunitiesU, where they learned about grant writing and technical assistance.

[RD_Mississippi @RD_Mississippi]

We’re in Water Valley, MS this morning @basecampcoding hosting a statewide Rural Partners Network meeting with Mississippi’s Community Networks! For more information, visit @RURALgov.

[Partners for Rural Transformation @PfRTorg]

Beginning April 1st, damaging storms and tornadoes ripped through the central US, uprooting the lives of thousands in PRT's service areas and beyond. In the words of @CommunitiesU CEO @InesPolonius, "Persistently poor places just got a lot poorer."

[CommunitiesUnlimited @CommunitiesU]

Listen to "A recipe for a rural policy renaissance" from the Reimagine Rural podcast featuring @CommunitiesU CEO @InesPolonius talking about policy changes that could impact rural communities.
https://t.co/7Tj0fmQ2rz

[RuralRISE @RuralRISE]

We're back to our regular schedule for the monthly RuralRISE Speaker Series. Next week, we're excited to welcome Dale Rutherford of @CommunitiesU to the virtual stage. He'll be chatting with us about building rural entrepreneurial ecosystems, a topic near and dear to our hearts!

[CommunitiesUnlimited @CommunitiesU]

Community Facilitator Kelle Menogan, Jr. was in Belzoni, MS recently for the first of many meetings. Gonna be the start of something good! Kelle is pictured with Humphreys Co. Chancery Clerk Mack Liddell, Jr.

Belzoni is known as the Catfish Capital of the World!

[Tony Pipa @anthonypipa]

This East TX ConnectRURAL initiative b/t @CommunitiesU & @TLLTemple is exactly the kind of creativity we need for enabling capacity in local rural communities to access federal & state investment for economic renewal. @InesPolonius @TLLTF_Wynn Jerry Kenney https://t.co/mIjcLZuS13