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.
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.
Please choose one or two questions in EACH category to address on your blog:
8. Sustaining action and creating structural change around leadership
What is your community’s plan for maintaining a strong community leadership system?
How can your community sustain the changes it has already made in its leadership?
What structural changes have been made in how the community does its work/makes decisions?
What structural changes have been made so that your community leadership sustains partnerships with others?
12. Sustaining action and creating structural change around community
How will your community make decisions about seeking further resources to support its plans?
Is a system in place to seek, receive, monitor and report on new resources to support community work?
Is a system in place to maintain contact with, or to continue work with other communities? With your Delivery Organization? In other partnerships?
What new resources have been secured to assist the work of the community?
Presho: Would like to see more active users, at this time there are 1 or 2 active bloggers, and a few others who have blogged once or twice. Technically you are meeting the requirement of having 5 bloggers for this incentive level, but only 2 of the 5 are “making contributions to the blog” consistently. Secondly, we would like to see posts specific to progress on your goals in the strategic plan. Overall, your community is still working at the Shoot for the Stars incentive….just barely. Your “to do list” through the end of Horizons:
1. Get 1 or 2 more people to blog consistently through the end of the project.
2. Add posts about the progress on strategic plans (records of committee work, meeting minutes, photos of projects in action/completed, how things have changed, etc.
3. If you haven’t already, include answers to the monthly questions. We would like to read more than one person’s perspective.
4. Also, we would like to stress quality versus quantity through the end of the project. We would really like to see posts on how your Strategic Plans are being implemented.
I would like to shout out a Thank You to all the participants who brought bars and desserts. I would like to give a special thanks to Kim Halverson who taught everybody how to blog!!!
This weekend The Presho Horizons Group is scheduling a clean up, paint, clean,dust etc. We ask that if you have a group or club that would be willing to donate there time helping out with the cleaning etc.
Please choose 1 or 2 questions in EACH category to address on the blog:
4. Sustaining action and creating structural change around poverty
What structures have been changed that will enable your community to address poverty in the long term?
Will you monitor and evaluate your community’s progress in reducing poverty?
What community resources will be needed to sustain the community plan to reduce poverty?
What additional resources would make a difference in your community’s work to reduce poverty?
11. Taking action on community
In what ways is your community operating or working differently?
In what new or expanded ways are people contributing to your community?
How are low income involved?
What structures have been created or changed that will help your community?
What new partnerships have been created, and what difference have they made for your community?
Have you learned anything about how nearby communities like yours are taking action to reduce poverty? Do you see any opportunities to exchange information or combine efforts in this work?
What kinds of concrete steps are being taken by your community to address poverty?
The Horizons group has made the decision to go ahead with the Thrift Store idea. A building has been secured and volunteers are being found. Change Presho containers are being placed in business’s to collect money for startup costs. A name contest is being held to get community interest. A board is being assembled to oversee the Change Presho projects, this includes the Thrift Store. A business plan is being prepared for the Thrift Store. There are many concrete steps being taken to get closer to our goal of opeing a Thift Store in Presho.
The canisters for the project have been ordered and should be here soon. I have talked with Pastor Lori and I will meet with the Youth Group on Feb. 26.
We should have a canister at the Farm and Home show and a very good explanation what Change Presho is. Since the Thrift Store is what the community was interested in having the money used for that is also a issue we need to be well versed in. I am currently working on lots of info for the Thrift Store and will make another post on that before the Farm and Home Show.
We need to decide which business’s the canisters will go in and who will be in charge of getting the money collected and where that money will be kept. Lots of questions, we need to have a meeting as soon as possible.
We need more volunteers to man the booth at the Farm and Home Show!! We still have about 3 hours open and that is having only one person there at a time. Even if you can only stay for 1/2 an hour please let the public know that you support Horizons and what we are trying to do for the community.
Please let me know ASAP if you can be there on Feb 23.
There will be wireless internet access, so we can show the blog, if you have any ideas what you think we should showccase at our booth please comment. Thank you