Cottonwood, ID

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.

There doesn’t seem to be a time in recent memory when Prairie community members can recall the Quad Cities (Cottonwood, Ferdinand, Keuterville, Greencreek) plus two (Monastery of St. Gertrude and North Idaho Correctional Institute) coming together as a group to work on the same program. In addition, each group is actively advocating for the best interests of the other groups. “Do we have anyone from Keuterville on the committee?” “Make sure the sisters can come on that day!” “Does the Ferdinand city council know about this opportunity?” There is a changing mindset happening from local to regional, what one steering committee member referred to as, “a oneness of communities.” This is how a vision becomes a reality!

The Communication, Coordination, Celebration Action Team submits regular newspaper articles and blog entries for consistent communication on agendas, minutes, trainings, and action team updates. The team is working with a local website designer to get a “Planting the Seeds of our Vision” website up and running. Keep checking the weekly Community Events at a Glance column for action team meeting times and locations.

The Intergenerational Action Team has been working together with their co-chairs, Chinh Le and Mary Uhlorn on two very large projects that are part of the communities’ vision.

Their December meeting was dedicated specifically to the Assisted Living Center project. The committee members have been researching various Elder Care models nearby and are looking at others in the state as well as other parts of the country. They are also looking for potential colaborators, assistance in completing a feasibility study, financing ideas, and possible sites for this center.

The other project being worked on is the Community Center and how it can be utilized in the future to meet the goals stated in the communities’ Vision Statement. This is the topic of their January meeting.

The action group extends an open invitation to anyone who has interest or ideas in either of these areas to come and participate in the visioning of these projects. Remember that your ideas and help is what makes change happen!

Their January meeting is Tuesday, January 17th, 6:30 p.m. in the multi-purpose room of the Community Center.

The Prairie Area has now upgraded with the Horizons program. We are now apart of the blogging world. The community can look at this blog site and see what’s happening in our area.