Rippling Effect Exercise highlights recent PC projects

Business and community leaders met at the Great Northern Lodge Room in Malta last Wednesday to participate in a Ripple Effects Mapping exercise to map and highlight some of the areas of improvement that several meetings held with the Montana Economic Developers Association have hosted in Phillips County since 2014.

Co-host for the event was Dr. Lorie Higgins, Community Development Specialist from the University of Idaho, who had a large, blank white piece of paper stuck to a wall in the Lodge Room for the mapping exercise. Dr. Higgins had the 30 or so people in attendance form into teams and d...