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The wait is over! The much anticipated playground equipment for the Kendrick City Park was installed over the holiday weekend and is now ready for children to enjoy. The new play structures were funded through private donations, grants, and fund raisers.
Congrats to Judy of Cascade, she’s our weekly winner! Thanks to all the new bloggers who’ve signed up. If you’re part of the steering committee, hopefully these questions will help you work on the final report that is due June 30. Please let us know if you have any questions about the blog or the report.There is a Blogging Handbook available on our Horizons website at http://extension.ag.uidaho.edu/horizons/coaches.htm at the very top of the page… Thanks to MJ for writing this beginner’s guide! Also, for those communities that may be looking for a little more training, please contact MJ at merijoz@uidaho.edu / 208-885-8949 to see how she can help you.Rules: Post your answers on your blogsite by Tuesday, June 3 by midnight and be entered in the drawing for one of our book titles… I will be at a conference May 27-30 so this will give you a whole extra week…NOTE: Please enter your answers as either a comment to the original question OR as a brand new entry on your blog so that the answers are easy for people to find.Reflective Questions:
Scavenger Hunt Question:· Which Idaho Horizons community is working with the University of Idaho to help with their vision to “rebuild a community center to assist local families fight back against the ravages of poverty. They are looking to the future when they will have a center that provides central business offices for the city, a town library and public computers with Internet accessibility, expanded recreational facilities for youth and adults, a hall for future leadership and life skills training.”The winner will receive a copy of the book: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People will Follow You by John C. Maxwell.
Congrats to Andrea of Grangeville, she’s our weekly winner!
Thank you all for the interesting responses about your community and what makes it ‘unique’ to you compared to other rural communities in Idaho.
I grew up in a small farming community in Idaho near the Utah border and I still think about it every day, the views and colors and smells and intense farm work we did (pulling rye, driving around and around in a tractor for 12 hours a day, herding cattle, etc) helped shape my life and world view. It’s that sense of place that helps define who we are and how we relate to the world around us.
I hope you’re all getting comfortable and familiar with the blogging process. Mary, MJ and I thank you for all the time and hard work you’ve devoted to this part of Horizons and know it’s just a small part of what you are all doing in your communities.
Please let MJ (merijoz@uidaho.edu) or me (dgray@uidaho.edu) know if we can help you with any questions you might have about blogging.
A ‘how to blog’ handbook is now available on our Horizons website at http://extension.ag.uidaho.edu/horizons/coaches.htm at the very top of the page…
Reflective Questions:
As we near the ‘end’ of this phase of Horizons, take a moment to look back on the past 18 months to answer these questions.
Has your community sought any additional resources outside of Horizons for your projects?
How has your community partnered with communities and/or organizations beyond Horizons?
Scavenger Hunt Question: Which Horizons community has an organization sponsoring a ‘Volcano Breakfast’ and what IS a Volcano Breakfast?
This week’s winner will receive a copy of:
One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All / Mark Robert Rank
Rules: Post your answers on your blogsite by May 20 (midnight) and be entered in the drawing for one of our book titles…
NOTE: Please enter your answers as either a comment to the original question OR as a brand new entry on your blog so that the answers are easy for people to find.
Just one week until the firm community newsletter deadline of May 15, 2008. Any news items to be included for the June-July-August newsletter must be here at kjand7r@gmail.com by midnight May 15, or news items may be mailed to arrive by May 15 in PO Box 54, Kendrick, Idaho 83537.
Thank you,
Community Communications Action Team
Guidelines for submission of articles to “What’s Happening”, our community newsletter:
This newsletter is meant to provide a stronger sense of community through the sharing of information. Appropriate articles are upcoming events, current community needs and services and new activities of organizations. The newsletter is written and edited entirely by volunteers so to get it out on time and in a readable format we need your help. Please submit articles using these guidelines: Submit articles by May 15th to kjand7r@gmail.com
Please supply your own title and byline (author’s name)Articles should be about 500 words (a single typewritten page) or less.Articles may be shortened by editors depending on space available.Please use a common, standard font such as Times New Roman.When submitting by email, if you send an article as an attachment, also please paste the article into the newsletter in case it does not open.
Sky/star gazing is a fun, family thing to do. Now that the weather is warming up, be sure to check out the nighttime sky before retiring in the evening. You may be delighted in what you see.
May is the perfect time to see the planet Mercury in the evening sky. All you need to do is look west-northwest through binoculars about an hour after sunset, you’ll see a lovely tapestry of the Pleiades (a cluster of stars in the constellation of Taurus), Mercury, and the V-shaped Hyades cluster with the orange star Aldebaran woven low above the horizon.
On Tuesday night, May 6, the 1.5-day old crescent Moon will sit a couple of degrees above and slightly to Mercury’s right.
During the first three weeks of May, this reddish planet is easy to see with the naked eye, beginning the month brilliant, then gradually fading. However, its setting time improves to just under two hours after the Sun on the 14th, when the planet reaches greatest elongation, 22-degrees almost directly above the Sun’s setting point, and is visible – albeit briefly – in a completely dark sky.
There will be plenty of action this Saturday as Kendrick has it’s monthly sale featuring everything from plants, lawn art, antiques, secondhand items, breakfast and lunch as well as clothing and collectibles from That Place, Aunie’s Antieks, The What Not Shop, Kendrick Grange Sale, Culpeppers, and The Lighthouse Cornerstone Bakery. Our local Kendrick Juliaetta Farmers Market will start at 8am in the Kendrick Park. Three local fundraisers will be happening on that same morning! The Juliaetta Library will be holding a rummage sale from 8am-2pm. Pug Marks CSI will be serving breakfast at the Kendrick Park and the JK Firefighter’s will be holding a Mother’s Day carwash by the Kendrick Firehall. See everyone there early!
Reflective Questions:
What is something unique about your Horizons community that you’d like to share with the rest of the world? What makes your community different from the one right down the road? Is it a strength your community can capitalize on or a burden you have to bear? Or both? For example, Sun Valley has the beautiful landscape, ski resorts, etc. but the tourism industry has also left behind many local people who are now unable to afford to live in the town they work in…
sheldondenier - The unique thing about our community is that it is actually two communities and they have not always seen eye-to-eye. If you are not a long-time member of the community, you never know when you will be stepping on someone’s toes or potentially opening an old can of worms.
We are very like the communities “right down the road”. The things that fed our community in the past - saw mills, railroad, orchards, etc. - are no longer here. Farms cannot support the farm families like they once did. We are in great measure bedroom communities. We struggle with the lack of local jobs for experienced workers and those just entering the job force. We are not a destination spot, but we are on the road to destination locations. There are a few key people in our community working to encourage traffic to stop in our communities. Or make it an outing to check out our local antique shops, special sales, and unique businesses such as The Cornerstone Harvest Lighthouse Bakery.
As the old addage goes “Divided we fall; together we stand.” As our community (actually two communities) continues to work together we will find a way to battle poverty in all its faces.
Scavenger Hunt Question: This week the scavenger hunt is a simple assignment. Find an entry on one of the Horizons community blogs (or even your own blog) and leave a comment to the author. It’s fun to give and get feedback about things we’re doing and talking about.
sheldondenier - I left a comment to vintagerose’s Kudos to Those Who Attended The “Meet Your Sheriff” Forum. I also left the comment - Just a suggestion - Have an administrator go to “Options” and under there click on “Reading”. The second main topic down is “Blog Pages”. In the box following “Show at most:” change the number to something higher - at least 15. I think Couer d’Alene Reservation uses 20, we use 25. Almost no-one clicks “previous” when scrolling down your page to see what is posted. It would improve your opportunities to have someone stop, read, and become interested enough to return to view the blog again. This is one of the few easy fixes for the blog site. - on Bonners Ferry Summer Hours set for the NIC Center, Bovill Going Beautiful, Kooskia A REALLY great forum for homesteading lifestyles, Stites Stites News May 2008, and Up River EVENTS!–U R Invited!!! These were all sites with the # ten blog (the preset number to show at once) less than one month old. I felt they could possibly benefit from more showing posts. The communities of Couer d’Alene and Kendrick/Juliaetta already show more posts. Cascade, Cottonwood, Grangeville, Riggins, Silver Valley, St.Maries, and Troy had a # ten blog more than one month old. I felt they are not blogging enough to make it worth my while to make my suggestion to them.
It has been over a year that members of our community have been working in the Northwest Area Foundation’s Horizons program locally. There are a very few people that have been involved from the very beginning of the Horizons program here in Kendrick/Juliaetta. Even though the person I write about wasn’t involved in the very first step, she is one member of our community that has been actively involved more fully and deeply than any other member of the program. This person has attended Facilitator Training and been a Facilitator. She was one of three from our community to go to a three day Leadership Plenty Training while traveling back and forth to Lewiston one of the evenings, where the others stayed, to keep a prior commitment to her “job”. She helped lead local Leadership Development classes. This person was very active in the preparations for the Vision Rally and was honored to be able to introduce the Rally speaker/facilitator, Davie Buerle, to officers at her place of work. She did not disappear when it was time to have the vision launch. She stepped right in to help and was named a co-chair of an action team. She was unable to fulfill that position, but it did not keep her from being active in relation to that action team. She was instrumental in developing their most successful project - Pug Marks CSI and is the newly formed advisory board vice president. She has also made herself available to help the action team responsible for getting out the community newsletter. And, at times has sat in on meetings dealing with leadership development.
All the while she has been involved in Horizons, she has held a full time and part-time job. She has also found time to further her knowledge with workshops offered by Horizons and other groups such the Clarkston School District’s offering of Ruby Payne’s Framework for Understanding Poverty. She has mentored at an afterschool mentoring program for grade school students, participated in a scholarship program that required a large committment of time, and helped plan, cook and serve meals at the Salvation Army Meal Site in Lewiston four times in this past year. She was involved in after “work” athletic programs from August until February. She is an active member of A.C.T.I.O.N. (Advisory Council to Improve Our Neighborhood) serving as it’s vice-president, an Ambassador for LCYAC (Latah County Youth Advocacy Council), and participated in the U of I’s Humanities Outreach Program. She is an officer in her “department” at work and has been noted as doing her “job” very well.
I am sure I have forgotten some of her services to her community, but I have never failed to notice that she almost always has a smile on her face and a can-do attitude. Her part-time job is as a janitor at her church. Her full-time job depends on the time of year. In the summers she works as a lifeguard and swim instuctor assistant in Moscow. The rest of the year she is a student in the junior class at Kendrick High School. Do you know who she is? Has any one other person done more for Horizons in Kendrick/Juliaetta?
The students’ displayed work was terrific. The pizza and salad was a good dinner. Door prizes were won by a lot of people as there were lots to give out. Over 300 people attended and had a good time.
Thank you to all the staff at JES and others who helped make it a fun night. And a thank you to Josi, a member of the advisory board of Pug Marks CSI, for painting pug marks on the faces of anyone who wanted one while board members Jana and Laura explained our new community service group to anyone that wanted to know more about it.
Congrats to Christine of Kooskia, she’s our weekly winner! Thank you to all who have recently signed up and started blogging.
Please let MJ or me know if we can help you with any questions you might have about blogging.
Reminder: MJ has created a ‘how to blog’ handbook that is now available on our Horizons website at http://extension.ag.uidaho.edu/horizons/coaches.htm at the very top of the page… Thanks MJ!
Also, for those communities that may be looking for a little more training, please contact MJ at merijoz@uidaho.edu / 208-885-8949 to see how she can help you.
Rules: Post your answers on your blogsite by May 6 by midnight and be entered in the drawing for one of our book titles…
NOTE: Please enter your answers as either a comment to the original question OR as a brand new entry on your blog so that the answers are easy for people to find.
Reflective Questions:
What is something unique about your Horizons community that you’d like to share with the rest of the world? What makes your community different from the one right down the road? Is it a strength your community can capitalize on or a burden you have to bear? Or both? For example, Sun Valley has the beautiful landscape, ski resorts, etc. but the tourism industry has also left behind many local people who are now unable to afford to live in the town they work in…
Scavenger Hunt Question: This week the scavenger hunt is a simple assignment. Find an entry on one of the Horizons community blogs (or even your own blog) and leave a comment to the author. It’s fun to give and get feedback about things we’re doing and talking about.
This week’s winner will receive:
The working poor: invisible in America by David K. Shipler
And
Building Communities From the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets by John P. Kretzmann and John L. McKnight.
Someone told me it was my turn again to answer the weekly question when I had time. (I have no time.)
It Has Broadened My Horizons!
January 19th, 2008 by pineappleprincess
~ by Josi K. McConnell-Soong When the Horizons program, which focuses on poverty and how to help eliminate it from our community, first came to Kendrick-Juliaetta, I volunteered to be a facilitator for the study circles. That had me going to St. Marie’s to a training on how to facilitate in a productive way. I helped facilitate a study circle group that was a mix of adults and teens. It was great hearing everyone’s ideas and opinions on what is good (a lot!) and what needs to be improved in our community to help eliminate poverty.A few months after the facilitator training I had an opportunity to be one of three people sent to a three day leadership training provided by Horizons. It was an awesome training. I made a lot of new friends from other communities in our area , a few even my age. I came away from that training a certified Leadership Plenty Trainer and feeling that Connie Reid and Amy Lynne are two awesome ladies and I am glad to consider them friends. We were able to train new leaders in our community with the skills we learned.My involvement in Horizons has given me an opportunity to meet some of the most active and caring citizens of our community and to get to know better the great citizens I already knew. When given the chance to work with caring, motivated adults it is not at all boring as some teens might think. It is really great to have people want to know my opinion and really care what it is. I would encourage any teen or young adult to try to become more involved in our community. The “Live News Letter” meetings at 6:00pm the third Thursday of the month would be a good place to start. At the “Live News Letter” an overview of what is happening in the community is given and a chance to find out what projects are being developed to help make our community even better.
There are more trainings coming up that may be of interest. Trainings are usually intended for anyone in our community that is interested. Most of the trainings are free of charge, and the expenses of the ones that cost can often be paid or partially paid by funds available through the Horizons program.
In addition to Facilitator Training and Leadership Plenty Training, I have also been trained to blog and to teach others how to blog. I can help others set up their own blog and learn to navigate through their blog site. And of course, this blog is always looking for anyone that would like to add articles of community interest.
On February 9th I will attend another training. This one is Ruby Payne Framework for Understanding Poverty. This workshop discusses how individuals in poverty think and act differently than those people in the middle and upper economic classes.
I would also like to attend a workshop on Feb 5th - New Board Member Orientation - understand the fundamentals of operating as an effective governing body. I hope to be an active participant in our new community service group “Pug Marks” and the information from this workshop could help me be better prepared.
All these opportunities are available to anyone in our community. You just need the interest in increasing your knowledge. Hopefully that new knowledge can be used to help others and I am sure what I have learned will help me not only now, but in my future.