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Join in the fun after the Irrigator Basketball games on January 3, 5, 8 ,10,11, 15, 17, & 18th stop at the First Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall to enjoy Darts, pool, air hockey, foosball and eat some sloppy joe’s, brownies, chips, hot chocolate, lemonade and coffee.
Both Youth and Adults are welcome!
If anyone happens to notice a lost baby Jesus wandering around town, he has parents, shepherds and even a lamb, that are missing him at the Newell Christian Fellowship Church.
Starting on January 1st the Steve & Kay Smeenk family will take over ownership of Newell Amoco BP. More details will run in the next edition of the Valley Irrigator. Congrats and good luck with your new venture!
On the right tool bar a short explaination of how to register has been added. Remember to qualify for our community laptop we’ll need at least 5 registered users who are actively participating in the blog (commenting and/or posting). This is one area we still need to continue to work on. So take the time to officially register, then come back login and start blogging!!! From what I understand we could get the laptop as early as February if we meeting the requirements!
If you’d like to read more detailed registration instructions, they are available under pages - Blog Users Guide.
If you shopped out of town for Christmas gifts, or at any time in the past year - why?
One of Horizons Strategic Goals is to implement a “Gator Card” - a type of Shop Newell incentive to encourage citizens to spent their money in our community rather than out of town or county.
It might be beneficial to explore the many reasons that folks do go out of town to shop. Are there products that Newell just doesn’t offer? Is it because you can find it out of town more affordable? Are you working out of town and it’s easier to do your shopping there also? Simply explain why you shop out of town, maybe the feedback can help Horizons and local business owners to work to serve more of our citizens.
To read more about the Gator Card idea, click on Newell Stragetic Plan on the right toolbar and read through the many goals Horizons has set for themselves! If you would like to join in to help see some of these goals through, contact Amanda Keller for more information.
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I received this message today - heads up everyone!
The blog system (everything that has communityblogs.us at the end of the web address) will be down starting at noon on Friday, December 28 It will be down for no more than 24 hours (and may be up again as early as the evening of December 28). We will be upgrading to the new version of Wordpress MU. You should see no significant change in how the blogs work or look. This upgrade will fix some potential security issues and add some features.
For the techies in the crowd: We are upgrading to WordPress MU 1.3, which incorporates the changes in WordPress 2.3.1
The Newell Public Library will be closed on December 24, 25, & 26 due to Christmas, and also on January 1st for New Year’s Day! If you have any questions email NewellLibrary@yahoo.com or call Librarian Glynda Smith during Library hours at 456-2179.
The Library is open Mondays 2-6pm and Tues-Friday 1:30-5pm.
If you are a subscriber of The Valley Irrigator - your in town delivery will not occur until Thursday, December 27th and Thursday, January 3rd due to Christmas and New Years falling on the regular print day (they are printing a day late, so delivery will also be a day late).
There will be a special meeting of the Newell City Council on Thursday, December 20th at 7pm at Newell City Hall. Be active in your town government, attend the meetings!
On Sunday the 16th, Vale Community Club organized a community wide potluck, santa visit and buggy rides. There was no charge to enjoy the event, as it was meant to be a fun family and community gathering.
Events like the one shown above not only show that our area is quite aware of one of our valuable assests (or strengths) which is simply; community. Our small town areas still have a strong sense of community unity and strive to keep that alive no matter how diverse our backgrounds or lives become.
Our newest restuarant in town officially opened today, hours will be 5:30am-10pm everyday, with possibly extended evening hours as the crowd dictates. Formerly known as the Royal Oak, the building sat empty for over two years before current owners Jeremiah and Tracy Heath bought, remodeled and opened the business.
During the recent Newell City Council mtg the finance officer reported that Martin Trucking had paid the city $20 per ton for the scrap metal he crushed , and compacted from the city rubble site, meaning the city received a payment of $1,795.60! Newell Horizons played a large part in getting this much scrap iron to the rubble site, they lined up volunteers, machinery, and dump trucks to help haul items out of town and the surrounding area. They took time out of their busy schedules to take calls and make numerous trips to the site.
The clean up projects have helped to gain awareness of one of the strengths Newell possesses - we are able to pull together to get things done. By recognizing that not all folks have the means, physical ability, or vehicles to bring items to the rubble site area residents worked to make sure anyone that needed help received it. The awareness of the diversity within our community helped to ensure that needs were met and projects were completed to the best of everyone abilities.
TJ’s (formerly known as the Royal Oak) opened their doors this evening for a private meeting of the SD Stockgrowers Association. For more information on the SDSGA check out their website
http://www.southdakotastockgrowers.org/
Video Pro owners have added an additional store to the premises - ETC. is currently open and accessible through the Video Pro store located on the corner of Girard and 3rd St. Christmas items and various other products are available for purchase. As you might have already guessed - check an upcoming issue of the Valley Irrigator newspaper for more information, or stop in and take a look for yourself.
According to the sign outside the restaurant formerly known as the Royal Oak - it is set to open to the public at 5:30am on Friday, December 14th as TJ’s Cafe! More details will come out in an upcoming Valley Irrigator article.
Vale Community Club will be hosting their annual community potluck at 1pm on Sunday, December 16th at the Vale Community Hall. Sounds like Santa might be making an appearance during the event also!
On December 8th at Newell City Hall Horizons co-sponsored the annual Santa Claus Day with Community Club. The official tree lighting ceremony, and then caroling in the hall started the event out. Horizons Member Lisa N made delicious homemade chili that was offered FREE to all that attended. Horizons Nathan K ran the Turkey Bingo games, and Julie ran the cakewalk - both were fundraisers for the Horizons Beautification Fund. With the big guy in the red suit handy to listen to all the kids wishes the day sure was one for the scrapbooks!
Four of the six kids that won the Elks Hoop Shoot district competition in Lead on December 8th were from Newell. They will now be heading on to State competition in mid-January in Pierre.
Congrats to Kellsie C, Cole V, Tera W, and Ian S!
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Last nights GBB games were re-scheduled for tonight. At 6pm the GBB Varsity Game will begin and 7:30 the BBB Game will start; for a more complete schedule click on the “Upcoming Events and Meeting Dates” or “Newell Schools” on the right hand side.
GO IRRIGATORS!!
Nothing brings the Community together like a good ball game!
Members of Newell PTO & Horizons recently joined forces to make hundreds, YES hundreds of popcorn balls! Children enjoyed them after the recent elementary concerts, and will again receive the yummy festive treat during the Santa Claus Day on Saturday.
*This shows leadership and community skills, mobilizing, action and also structural change. Throwing in to accomplish things together are prime examples of the leadership that unites a community.
My apologies to the Catholic church’s - it was brought to my attention that neither of them had the same large print billing in the Church Directory that the other churches received. This (I’ve now learned) was due to the fact that when I’d pasted the info on the page a few lines of code were left out. Now that I’ve gotten a little more website savy I’ve figured out the problem and I’m happy to say that it’s now resolved. So all churches have the same large print heading! There was no disrespect intended, just a “learning how to - on the computer glitch”. Thanks for bearing with me!
