Cottonwood, ID

Movies on the Wall
When: Fridays, August 1st & 15th
Where: Cottonwood City Park
Showing: August 1st - Disney/Pixar’s Ratatouille
August 15th - “Spiderwick Chronicles”
Donations only/concessions available

This fundraiser is also for the renovation of the Community Hall sponsored by the Welcome to the Prairie, 3 C’s, and Intergenerational Action Teams. All proceeds will benefit the project.

1st Annual Dutch Oven Cook-Off
What: Register in teams of up to two, enter as many categories as you
want
When: Saturday, August 23rd, 9:00am-2:30pm
Where: Cottonwood, City Park - Idaho County Fair
Registration Deadline: August 10th - call Barb Michels (208) 962-3408 or email her at
barbmichels@connectwireless.us for registration form
Prizes award to Best Dish & Taster’s Choice
PUBLIC TASTING & VOTING: 12:30-2:30pm

This is a fundraiser for the renovation of the Community Hall project and is sponsored by Prairie Horizons and the Cottonwood Chamber of Commerce.

By involving the entire community, via study circles, leadership
training and the action group meetings it better addresses the issues
and situation within the community.

One of the projects from the Horizons program was the development
of a community center. At the city council meeting one individual stated
that he had heard no complaints about the current building. The co-chairs
present were able to present documented information from hundreds of
participants that stated the public did feel they wanted a new center.
This type of community involvement is what is needed to get things
accomplished in a small community. Additionally, by utilizing the program
we were able to work with several smaller local communities that
assisted in merging all of them together.

We have the potential to bring more resources into the community through
shared leadership of a regional NPO. We are changing the “we can’t do it
here, we don’t have the resources” pervasive attitude. The
LeadershipPlenty class gave people an “oh, I can do this” attitude.

Both Grangeville Horizons and Prairie Horizons Groups are in the process of pooling
their resources in order to help community projects in both areas.

Another networking project is the result of a day’s conference in Post Falls by the Inland Northwest Partners who did an excellent job connecting Washington and Idaho for an even
larger regional impact.

The vision rally was powerful and generated energy among the people, the
businesses and schools - Can we generate that kind of thing again? People
spoke very positively about our community.

The center core group is still working to help make the vision come true.
Our first fundraisers are in the works.

The University of Idaho gave us the energy and technical support we
wouldn’t have had. More importantly, they gave us the “thinking” that it
(community vision) could be that way. Horizons would never have gotten
off the ground-we wouldn’t have known how to plan, how to move forward,
what to do.

An extra big thanks to our Coach, Kathee Tifft who’s always been available to help us in all that we’ve accomplished so far. We do hope we can continue to keep in touch with Kathee as we continue on realizing our communities’ vision. THANKS, KATHEE!

A Long Term Care expert from AARP DC was visiting Boise on June 27th and
participated in a conference call with Cathy McDougall, Associate State
Director, AARP Idaho and representatives of the Intergenerational
Relationships action team to talk about national trends and connecting
our local efforts to additional resources.

The Welcome to the Prairie Action Team hasdeveloped a resource
directory to recruit/welcome new families into our community.
We’re improving prospects for our community. We’re starting the
conversations and getting the emotional support that builds
key community relationships. Working with Grangeville is a significant
accomplishment. It’s remarkably wonderful because of the generational
competition between Cottonwood and Grangeville.

The grant writing class led to the development of a grant network. We’re
on a blog for grants and we’re truly collaborating by offering resources
and working on projects together. Elk City offered training on NPO board
development in our community.

AARP Idaho Boise State University are contributing expertise to the
Prairie Horizon Long Term Care Project.

It is confirmed that the BSU students will design and AARP will
administer a Long Term Care needs assessment for Cottonwood. The survey
will be approved by BSU. This will begin in September and AARP will
work with Prairie Horizons on the details.

Cody Gehring is completing an internship with the 2 Degrees Northwest
Program along with Horizons, and will be conducting historical research
in the Horizons communities this summer. He is currently seeing if he
can get Kathy Hodges, an oral historian from the Idaho State Historical
Society to do a workshop on oral history in some of the Horizons
communities. He feels oral history is a great way to help communities in
identifying their historical and cultural assets. He is also researching
historical information for the points of interest in the area.
(Cottonwood Butte, Keuterville Church, Keuterville Pub, Foster’s Grave).
Oral History Project

June meetings are as follows:

June 10 - Town Hall Meeting and Celebration @ Community Hall 7:00-9:00 PM
June 19 - Steering Committee Mtg @ Community Hall 6:00-8:00 PM
June 24 - Welcome to the Prairie Action Team Mtg @ monastery small dining room 3:30-5:00 PM
June 26 - Communication, Coordination, & Celebration Action Team Mtg @ Angie’s Crafts and Supply 7:00-8:30 PM

Please join the action team you are interested in and help us meet our vision

Please note the following classes to be held at Angie’s in downtown Cottonwood.

April 12 - Saturday - 9:30-4:30 PM - Water Color Class
April 17 - Thursday - 6:30-8:30 PM - “All Wired Up” - Wire Wapping Class
April 24 - Thursday - 6:30-8:30 PM - Beaded Bracelet Class
May 1 - Thursday - 6:30-8:30 PM - Polymer Clay Class
May 8 - Thursday - 6:30-8:30 PM - Earring Class
May 15 - Thursday - 6:30-8:30 PM - Beaded Bracelet Watch Class
May 22 - Thursday - 6:30-8:30 PM - “All Wired Up” - Wire Wrapping Class

Note: Some classes have a minimum number before they are taught. One such class is “Fly Tying.” We need ten people to sign up before it can be held. It lasts six weeks (one night per week). If this one interests you, please call and let Angie know.

These classes are open to all who are interested. Please give Angie a call at 962-7727 to find out more information about these classes.

Those of you who are artisans and would like to offer a class to others in our community, please let Angie know this.

This Monday, March 17th, the Prairie Horizons Steering Committee will meet at 6:00 pm in the multi-purpose room at City Hall. Budgeting will be discussed and all co-chairs are asked to bring their needs to this meeting.

Tuesday, March 18th, the Intergenerational Action Group will meet at 6:30 pm in the multi-purpose room at City Hall. Please bring your reports regarding your visits to assigned community center or assisted living center with you. Everyone is welcome to attend and share your ideas, thoughts, and questions. These are two very large projects which need more help from more people within our Quad City communities.

On February 27th, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. at the Spirit Center at St. Gertrude’s Monastery, the University of Idaho Extension will provide free training on community center development.

Anyone in the North Central Idaho Horizons communities including Cascade, Riggins, Grangeville, Cottonwood, Keuterville, Greencreek, Ferdinand, Kooskia, Stites, Pierce, Weippe, Kamiah, and Orofino are invited to attend.

This training will help community members recognize opportunities and challenges for building a community center as well as how to plan, design, fund, and operate a community center.

Craig Smith, deputy director of Rural Development Initiatives out of Portland, OR will lead the training. Crait has considerable experience and education in non-profit and business development, community organization, and fund acquisition.

The training is FREE and open to all members of Horizons communities, as well as other interested rural Idaho residents. Lunch will be provided to those attending the Cottonwood event.

Those planning to attend are asked to contact Meri Joswiak, Horizons program assistant by email at merijoz@uidaho.edu or by telephone at (208) 885-8949.

For additional information about the Horizons program go to this website http://extension.ag.uidaho.edu/horizons/training regional.htm