In October of 2006, more people attended the Horizons Project in Northport than any other community in Stevens County. The wide base representation which consisted of the Mayor, schools, and people of the community made the project a success and birthed the Northport Community Preservation and Restoration (N.C.P.R.) organization which formed in May of 2008.
While yet unformed as NCPR, we perceived the need of our community, and wanted to be part of the Horizons Project. We met with the Mayor and others in the community of Northport to see if we could meet criteria for the Horizons Project Community Grant that was being offered to study poverty in rural communities such as ours.
A grant was written to this end, and was accepted on November 14 of 2006 to bring change to our community through the studying of poverty.
As part of the Horizon Project we studied poverty, its effect on the community, and ways to change the trend of those effects. Now as the Northport Community Preservation and Restoration organization we are implementing those changes for the betterment of our community.
Under the NCPR banner we have:
In the future, NCPR is looking forward to: