Presho, SD

Meeting held on June 17

pl49 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:56:18 +0000

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.

Graduation Event-June 26th

teresa — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:08:27 +0000

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!!

Thrift Store Open House

teresa — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:00:56 +0000

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.

Thrift Store and More

teresa — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:54:48 +0000

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.

Grant Writing Workshop, May 13th

teresa — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:50:00 +0000

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.

Join Hands Day Activities, May 3

pl49 — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:14:02 +0000

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.

Sustaining action

pl49 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:28:00 +0000

Question 8. Through the Horizon session our community has learned that there are many potential leaders who can and will take charge and promote activities that they feel are important. A number of individuals have stepped forward to help with the Thrift Store that is being started in Presho. Different people have stepped forward to help promote and insure the success of the newly implemented Senior Meals program. Horizons has helped to generate interest in welfare of the citizens of the community and has brought more people into the decision making process. Communication among the citizens about the projects and donations of time and resources has increased.

Blog Questions for April (last set)

pl49 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:52:19 +0000

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?

Thrift Store Fixup Crew

khal — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:34:14 +0000

Final Blog Report Card (Shoot for the Stars-Laptop Comp)

pl49 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:04:31 +0000

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.