Cottonwood, ID

Movies On the Wall - Community Hall Fundraiser

katie — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:31:16 +0000

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

katie — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:29:33 +0000

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.

A Unified Voice Brings Higher Visibility

katie — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:26:38 +0000

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.

Camas Prairie Non-Profit Organization

katie — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:24:27 +0000

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 Prairie Gets Organized, Energized, and Powerful

katie — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:15:52 +0000

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.

Thank You - U of I for Being “A Guide on the Side”

katie — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:13:06 +0000

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!

Prairie Horizons Action Team Reaches out Nationally

katie — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:10:08 +0000

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.

Welcoming Team’s Prairie Resource Directory

katie — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:08:47 +0000

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.

Grant Writing Bloggers

katie — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:07:35 +0000

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 & BSU to Contribute Time and Talent in Assessment

katie — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:06:16 +0000

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.