Here are the dates for the upcoming Study Circle Facilitator trainings for the horizons III Communities.
Thursday, September 25 - West River Ag Center, Rapid City, SD
Saturday, September 27 - St John’s Lutheran Church, Webster, SD
Sunday, September 28 - Mitchell Tech, Mitchell, SD
Contact your community coach for specific information.
Here are some photos from Conde on their recent youth project day. One of their strategic goals was to provide family friendly activities for youth and adults. The day was also used as a day to provide postive youth mentoring opportunities. Lots of new skills learned and lots of fun!
Milan Wall from the Heartland Center for Leadership Development shared ideas with communities about Marketing Your Community. Milan did a whirlwind tour of South Dakota presenting in Armour, Kadoka and Conde. See the video below for a snippet of his presentation.
Not sure how many are aware of this site, so I thought I would pass it along…
It is a searchable database of grants available in our area, and nationwide. The database is managed by the South Dakota State Library. If your community is looking at finding grants, you can search by specific grants, fields of interest, keywords or specific grantor. Click the picture to follow the link to the website.
Presenting: Dr. Milan Wall, Heartland Center for Leadership Development
The Heartland Center in Lincoln, NE, helps local leaders respond to current and future challenges in their community by bringing people together to learn how to become better decision makers.
Milan Wall, Co-Director of the Heartland Center, is a management and communications expert with more than 30 years of experience in dealing with critical issues facing American society and culture. Milan will work with SD communities to discover stategies useful for marketing their areas to future residents and businesses.
Join us at one of the following locations:
We will begin each session with a free supper at 5:30 pm, followed by the seminar with Milan Wall. We will wrap up at 9:15 pm.
Please RSVP to Kari at 688-4946 or fruechte.kari@ces.sdstate.edu at least 3 days prior to the event for a meal count!
Estelline was featured in a recent news article in the Watertown Public Opinion…
Estelline plans farmer’s market
Published: Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:15 AM CST
ESTELLINE — The Estelline Horizons Program is organizing a farmer’s market in the area that will open this year. A committee has been formed and volunteers are still needed.Area residents interested in the farmer’s market are encouraged to attend a farmer’s market workshop at the Northern Plains Biostress Laboratory on the South Dakota State University campus in Brookings.To register for the workshop, log on to www.downtownbrookings.com and look under the events section.
Did Horizons Project Director, Kari ask Santa for something special for Christmas this year? I wonder what’s on her Christmas list? Thanks to Presho for capturing this ever so wonderful photo of Kari!
The Horizons I communities learned to blog at a training in Timber Lake on Wednesday, December 5th. Dondra, Megan, Sr. Pegge and Sr. Darlene worked hard to learn a lot of stuff in a short amount of time. We used the new laptop labs from the Cooperative Extension Service and hooked up to the internet using the FREE! city-wide wireless broadband network. It worked pretty well, just a little slow at times, but it is a great asset in a small town.
We took a virtual tour of the Horizons II communities through the blogs, I showed them the great work already started all across the state. The newly trained bloggers may need some help getting started, so if our Horizons II communities can give them a hand that would be great! You can access their blogs on the sidebar on the South Dakota page.
Have you been reading the blogs? There have been a lot of really clever ideas shared on the blogs already.
Elementary School kids learn the importance of giving in community, learn about this simple lesson in civic engagment at Whitewood Elementary Giving Chain.
What great ideas are just waiting to be discovered in your community?
Sometimes the simple ideas have the greatest impact. Keep sharing these great ideas, they serve as great inspiration for other communities!
Here are some instructions on how to do a Picasa Slide Show.
After a whirlwind trip across South Dakota in October I am so glad that the Blog Trainings are done! I’m also glad to see the enthusiasm, excitement and creativity from the community members who attended the trainings in Mitchell, Tyndall, Sturgis and Webster.
Thanks to the 45 people who attended trainings and were willing to take on the blog responsibilities for their communities! We are really looking forward to seeing what each of the communities add to the blogs and we know that you will all be working towards those great technology incentives for your community! Here’s a group photo from Webster that sums it up:
“FOR SUCCESS, ATTITUDE IS AS IMPORTANT AS ABILITY!”
This will be a great opportunity for old and young alike to experience the future - communication via the technology wave! Embrace the potential to share information about your community - exciting new projects, community dialogues and future ideas. Enjoy!
Each Horizons community will be encouraged to use their own individual blog pages to report what is happening during the Visioning phase. The blogs are set up and ready to go. It’s easy to go directly to your community site and begin typing. You can add photos, videos, and other items of interest. This is your chance to be truly creative and share you “stuff” with other communities. Let the juices flow!!
