At long last, the lights are on in the Navajo community of Westwater, Utah
"We’re so excited, so happy," she told FOX 13 News on Friday."Some of us are still getting used to it."
At the time, political leaders promised action and residents were skeptical. After all, they'd heard these same promises for years before and they'd always been broken."I didn’t know if I should cry my happy tears because, you know, it was a lot of work from the time we first started to now," Gene said."So it’s very touching to me.""It’s tribal land, not reservation land, it’s not part of the city of Blanding," Lt. Gov. Henderson said.
Lt. Gov. Henderson pushed the legislature to do more and helped to broker agreements to get Westwater utilities. She advocated for using COVID-19 relief money to make it happen. The Navajo Nation also spent money. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints donated funds.