I want to ask you to imagine something with me.  What if Missouri Good Neighbor Week became much more than a week on the calendar? What if MU Extension became the spark that helped create a statewide movement of people intentionally connecting with the neighbors who live right around them? Think about the network we already have. MU Extension has approximately 300 employees across Missouri. We also have 114 county Extension councils. If we conservatively imagine an average of 15 council members per county, that represents another 1,710 community leaders. Add the 114 county office secretaries, and we have a potential network of approximately 2,124 people connected directly to MU Extension. Now imagine that every one of those people simply reached out to eight neighbors during Missouri Good Neighbor Week. That’s 16,992 individual acts of neighboring . Sixteen thousand nine hundred ninety-two opportunities to introduce ourselves to someone next door. To check on an older...