The St. James community photo taken at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, July 30, for the St. James Horizons story that will appear in Source magazine. Photo is from St. James Plaindealer web site. Thanks to Extension for setting it up, and thanks to Sue Harris (back row, right side) to get everyone to show up so early.
Congratulations, St. James!
After 18 months of planning, organizing, great conversations, and hard work, your work plan is complete! Click the link below to find details of the Horizons Team organizational plans, focus areas, and projects.
The following attachment are meeting minutes from our Horizons meeting that was held on May 8, 2008.
The first Horizons money requests were granted at the Leadership Team meeting on Tuesday. The Education Future Squad will get $750 for interpreter services for Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) classes. The classes are being held by the Good Samaritan community in May, June and July.
The other grant was $500 to the Green Team Future Squad to get their names on the reusable shopping bags that are going to be sold at grocery stores and around town. Besides being environmentally friendly, the project is a social contribution because the proceeds from selling the bags will go to a scholarship fund for low-income students.
This money comes out of the first $1,500 payment from the Northwest Area Foundation (the parent of Horizons) to St. James. Another $8,500 will be coming upon the completion of the Horizons program.
Fighting complacency with a single task force, the Future Squads were set at tonight’s Horizons meeting.
I didn’t count, but there must have been 45 people at the meeting. We came up with a vision statement and four solid Future Squads to work on the issues important to St. James. Two liasons were appointed from each Future Squad. They are:
Education: Shiree Oliver and James Piper (preschool up to higher education)
Green Team: Jill Henderson and Mark Anderson (energy/environmental issues)
Youth: Caitlin Olson, Kristen Shumate (youth issues)
Unity: Emily Boelke, Joe McCabe (engaging the community to work together)
If any of you would like to join a team, contact these people.
Three pizzas, six water bottles and a big can of Jolt fueled seven St. James students as they poured over a stack of applications to the St. James Youth Council.
The students, Erik Romsdahl, Hilario Alvarado, Julio Zelaya, Anna Asendorf, Josie Oliver, Tory Clark and Irma Marquez, were not just looking for the best resumé or the most popular applicants. Instead, they kept talking about finding unlikely leaders, looking for people who wanted to get involved.
The applications were excellent. Many of them said they wanted to change the way peer pressure was controlling what kids did in and out of school.
It will be fund to find out who the seven leaders selected for the Youth Council. Hopefully, when things get going, the Youth Council members will blog about their activities.