A Horizons meeting was held on June 17 at 7:30 at the Presho Public Library. Dan O was present and there was a discussion about the plans for the celebration in the park on June 26. A meal will be served at 5:30 with free swimming for those interested. A program will follow; Kari will make some presentations to the Horizons committee. The Horizons group is hoping for a large attendance at this event.
Horizons II is planning a graduation celebration Thursday June 26th at 5:30pm in the City Park. There will be a free meal at the picinic shelter and free swimming at the pool. Local groups will be speaking about various community projects and Kari will be there to present our check, laptop and printer. The whole community is invited to attend, hope to see you there!!
The Thrift Store open house was a great success. We served over 100 people for the BBQ lunch and had brisk business inside the store. Mandy Cole won the quilt. The raffle and free will offering raised $510.00 and Modern Woodman will match up to $500.00. We plan on building a new step with hand rails with the money.
The Thrift Store and More board would like to say thank you to all that have volunteered and donated items to the store. It is great to see so many people involved in this project.
The store will be opening May 29th and the open house/fundraiser will be on June 7th. We will be accepting donations on May 10th and then on any day we are open for business. We plan on being open Thursday and Friday, 10-6, and Saturday 10-4. We are still looking for volunteers to work during these hours, if you are interested please contact Michelle or Teresa.
Dan has arranged a Grant Writing Workshop to be held in Presho at 5pm on May 13th. All communites are invited to attend, it will be held at the Presho Public Library on Main Street. Dr. Pat Johnson and Mindy Hubert from SDSU with be presenting. I encourage anyone who is interested in grant writing to participate.
Horizon members, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans members, Modern Woodmen members, and the Lyman County Museum members worked together to work at arranging articles at the new Thrift Store and More; cleaning up the town; cleaning the Merchants Park and cleaning at the Museum to get it ready for the opening on Memorial Day. Thanks to all who so generously donated time to work on these projects to make Join Hands Day activities a success. Flower plots were cleared at the park and the museum and flowers will be planted when the danger of frost has passed.
Blog training had some new participation. It’s good to see more people taking the time to participate and learn how to blog. Thank you to all our new bloggers!!
In what new or expanded ways are people contributing to your community? I’ve been pleased with the phone calls and comments from people in the community on the projects we’ve started and the donations, offers of volunteer work and ideas are very welcome indeed. There’s seems to be excitement about the Thrift Store and others have commented about projects that are in the works such as the bike/walking path. Now we are asking people to join us in these ventures. We will be asking groups as well as individuals to help with clean-up, painting, shelving, and more. This is a project for the people, by the people.
In what new or expanded ways are people contributing to your community? One of the questions for the month of March. I’m glad to see new faces joining forces with the Horizons group. We need to continue to invite people to our planning sessions. Let it be known out there that Horizons will meet the 4th Monday of the month at the library. Our next upcoming meeting is Mon., Mar. 31 but will be at the High School so more people can be shown how to blog on this site. Please keep watch in the Lyman Co.Herald for more details and times.
We’ve added some new faces to the new Thrift Store board and are hoping to hear from the other committees that they’ve added some new ones, too. People probably won’t join if they aren’t invited. Let’s invite people that haven’t had the opportunity to work on community projects yet so that we can see change here in Presho. Who else can tell us of new or expanded ways people are contributing to our community?
What community resources will be needed to sustain the community plan to reduce poverty? One of our March questions that needs answering…COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS are needed to help clean and paint the inside of the building we will be renting from Chad Johnson at the N. end of main so that we can start bringing in racks and shelving that is also needed at this time. I am excited to get this project off the ground finally. Teresa has gotten a business plan put together and the board had their first official meeting. So one of the things we need to look at is the resources to get this project moving ahead. This could definitely reduce poverty when we have the opportunity to offer clothing and household goods at a greatly reduced price to local residents and, hopefully with advertising, other communities as well. Our residents are our most valuable resource we have! Money, paint, cleaning supplies, racks, shelves, counter, storage containers, etc. are small things that are needed. Once the store is open people, again, are the resource we need to frequent the Thrift store for it to thrive. There is a lot of community interest in this project and so far the Change Presho canisters have done pretty well to start with. We would like to be able to put some of this money back into the community businesses as well by purchasing the supplies we need. But most importantly, as already stated, volunteers are the most needed resource right now. We will also need volunteers to run the store once we get it off the ground. There are great, fun ways to reward these volunteers, too. Call and find out how we plan to do that!! Contact Michelle Lintvedt or Teresa Shook.