Are You Reading the Blogs? Great Ideas from Communities
I wanted to take some time to highlight some of the recent stories from our communities across the state. There is so much to be learned from other communities and often communities have the same issues they are trying to find solutions to. You know the old saying, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel…here are some examples of great work happening in our Horizons communities:
Murdo: Their newly formed volunteer program is getting started. A great way to help those in your community who aren’t able to do tasks themselves. Keep building that social capital! Read more about it at http://murdo.communityblogs.us/2008/05/29/volunteer-program/
Philip: Philip is looking at its assets, including the numerous things that all of their social organizations do in the community. An ice cream social will be used to highlight the work done by groups, to encourage new volunteers and to celebrate community spirit. Great idea Philip! Read more at: http://philip.communityblogs.us/2008/06/01/celebration-of-community-spirit/
Sanborn Central: A community wide rummage sale will be held, they got donations of bags from local grocery stores and donations of rummage sale items from the community. Proceeds of the sale go to help people in poverty in their community. Read more at: http://sanborncentral.communityblogs.us/2008/06/08/horizons-rummage-sale/
These are just a few of the great stories shared on the blog in the first part of June. We hope that communities will continue to blog after Horizons is officially done so we can see the great work you are doing in your communities continue.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
I just wanted to give credit where credit is due. We got the idea to do the “Bag Sale” for our Community Rummage Sale from Tyndall. Their Bargain Shoppe had a bag sale, which gave us the idea for ours.
We asked for donations for the rummage sale. Then we sold the donated bags for $5.00 each and told people to fill them up. It worked out great and saved us from marking everything.
It was such a success that we’re having another rummage sale at the Community Center in Letcher on June 14th. Just goes to show that you can get some great ideas from checking out the other community’s blogs. Thanks, Tyndall!!!
Dawna/Sanborn Central