May is National Community Action Month, highlighting the agencies started during the Lyndon Johnson administration in the 1960’s as part of President Johnson’s “War on Poverty.”  Washington Gorge Action Programs and Mid-Columbia Community Action are just two of the over one-thousand Community Action agencies in the country.  WAGAP’s Jennifer Pauletto says the local agencies are able to decide where the gaps are in the community and how they can fill them.  WAGAP serves Klickitat and Skamania counties, while Mid-Columbia Community Action covers Wasco, Hood River, and Sherman counties.