Be Your Best helps set a foundation for community success

DANA MERRYDAY

First of a two-part series.

Be Your Best started as a dream and has grown from a loose-knit collective into an almost formal organization about to embrace 501-c-3 status.

It is another one of those “only in Cottage Grove”-type stories that involve people seeing a need and collaborating with others in the community to make things happen. The connections across many strands led to some of the amazing results we see here. For…