Newell Summer Blast Off 

SATURDAY, JUNE 21 – Newell City South Park

8 a.m. – 1 p.m.

COMMUNITY YARD SALE

Noon – 4 p.m.

FARMER’S MARKET

PRODUCT VENDOR’S

COMMUNITY CARNIVAL

Inflatables, bingo, dunk tank, games, food and FUN!  

Vendors Wanted – Call Kim Smeenk 456-0200  

Due to weather this event is postponed until Saturday 5/3! 

Community Action Team Holds OH

On Thursday, May 1st the NVN CATS will be holding an open house at their new building in Nisland, which is also the former Nisland Town Hall.

Check out their new services, which includes a clothing store!

CATS provides commodities, senior care packs, the Meals on Wheels program and many others!

Boom Concrete poured the concrete floor for the new park shelter today!

Finshed product!

Newell School put on another fun filled Family Reading Night straight from Hawaii!

Spring Has Sprung!

And with it the construction continues on the picnic shelter. Boom Concrete is preparing for the pour of concrete. Cold weather is always more work with pouring a slab and presents more opportunities for the unexpected. Now, with the warming of things, we see construction begin again. Stay tuned to see how it progresses.

On April 17th from 1:30-4:00 the Newell Library is putting on an Open House with the theme of “The Wild West.” There will be a raffle along with prizes to win and refreshments with books, books, books!

Opinion Polls & Market Research

The Nisland election will take place April 8th at 7am - 7 pm at the Town Hall. Make sure you make it to vote!

http://www.vizu.com/poll-results.html?n=85218 click here for results 

The shelter has been delayed due mostly to winter weather. The supplies are purchased and the work crews are on board. We just need some good weather and time to get the volunteers together to finish. The concrete floor and walk path is the next step which will be done by Boom Concrete and then Bob Newth will organize the work to finish the shelter. We are a little later than originally planned, but then this winter hasn’t exactly been conducive to concrete or volunteer labor. Please bare with us as we work toward finishing this project this spring.

We have scheduled this night for Thursday, March 27th. We will eat at 6:00 p.m. and then work will begin at 6:30. We will be meeting at the Senior Citizen building. If you need to have research done before you can begin planning, please try to have it done before this night. The committee and their chairs are listed below. Committee Chairs please call your volunteers and let them know about this meeting. It is very important that we work hard until the end so we can receive our $10,000 dollar grant amount. We have worked too hard to lose it now. The end is in sight! If you have questions, please let me know! Thanks so much!

Beautification- Committee Chairs
Carol McCarthy
Scott Wince
Ann Hodgman
Cheryl McCann
Beautification Volunteers
Harlon Robbins
Kim Wince
Mike & Diane Petts
Donavan DeBoer
Heather Kari
Pinky Catron

Signage Committee Chairs
Carol McCarthy
Scott Wince
Ann Hodgman
Cheryl McCann
Signage Volunteers
Kim Wince
Michelle DeBoer
Lisa Nelson
Donavan DeBoer

Community Unity Committee Chairs
Kim Smeenk
Lisa Nelson
Fred Sulzbach

Local Businesses and Fund Raising Committee Chairs
Bob Newth
Donavan DeBoer
Kelsey Morovits
Sean McCann
Local Businesses and Fund Raising Volunteers
Roger Monson
Melanie Williamson
Kim Wince   Assisted Living Center Committee Chairs
Bob Newth
Donavan DeBoer
Kelsey Morovits
Sean McCann
Assisted Living Center Volunteers
Fred Sulzbach
Pinky Catron
Happy CatronIf you are not on a list, please feel free to come and join any committee you would like to. We welcome everyone!

This was sent with the Report cards - FYI!

For ALL Horizons communities: 

It will be up to your community to decide what happens with your community blogs in the future. Some communities may see the value of continuing the blogs after Horizons is officially completed this summer. We also realize that some community blogs may choose to end when Horizons ends.  NWAF has told us that the blogs will be active for as long as your community wishes to use them. Some benefits of community blogging include: ·         A place to share ideas in your community.·         Open forum for discussion/decision making.·         Interactive way to measure your progress on projects.·         Marketing tool to attract new residents, potential project funders, positive press from local news outlets, etc.·         A way to stay accountable/build momentum/gather volunteers and resources for planned projects, dreams and goals.

Final Blog Report Card – Carolyn’s Communities

This is the last “report card” we will send to your community, but your work should continue through the end of the project. Many of you have followed the suggestions for improvement we had given you on the report cards sent in January/February.

 Shoot for the Stars (Laptop Computer) 

Faith, Newell & Whitewood – Would still like to see more active users, at this time there is one or two main bloggers, and a few others who have blogged once or twice. Technically you are meeting the requirement of having five bloggers for this incentive level, but only two of the five are “making contributions to the blog” consistently. Secondly, we would like to see posts specific to progress on your goals in the strategic plan. Overall, your community is still working at the Shoot for the Stars incentive…some, just barely. Your “to do list” through the end of Horizons:

1.       Get one or two more people to blog consistently though the end of the project.

2.       Add posts about the progress on strategic plans (Records of committee work, meeting minutes, photos of projects in action/completed, stories about people, how things have changed, etc.)

3.       If you haven’t already, include the answers to the monthly questions. We would like to read more than just one person’s perspective, for example, you may choose to give this as an assignment to committee members and/or other community members.

4.       Also, we would also like to stress quality versus quantity through the end of the project. We would really like to see specific posts on how your Strategic Plans are being implemented.

A few photos to get you thinking about where Newell Horizons was just a half a year ago…

The youngest Horizons members taking a quick break from painting benches at the Newell Church Museum.

Horizons members scrape old paint off, then paint primer at the Newell Public Library.

Horizons hosted the first Homecoming Festival on the Newell School Track!

In the Austin Auditorium at 7:00 pm  March 20th the Annual Battle of the Sexes will be taking place. This is a fundraiser for post prom so the cost to get in is $3 for adults and $2 for students. There will be a pie auction and a shoot out at half-time for $1 per try. Chance to win a Gatorade or PowerAde. Come and watch your Irrigator Basketball players and coaches compete!

March 15th began with the annual Community Club Easter Egg Hunt.

Lunch, fun and games provided by the Newell Horizons group.

Ending with roller skating sponsored by the local Cub Scout Pack at City Hall.

Proving that with three local groups cooperating and supporting each others events really is three times the fun!!!

Tonight from 4-7pm in the MPR at the Newell Schools the GBB & BBB will have a “Potato Bar”, cost is $5 a person. Come and support your Irrigators!

You’ll be missing out if you don’t stop by the school at 11am on Saturday for the annual Community Club Easter Egg Hunt open to children 0-9 years of age. Afterwards stop at the NVN Center for a meal sponsored by Newell Horizons along with fun games and give aways. The Boy Scouts are sponsoring roller skating next door at City Hall that afternoon - so make a day of it with your family in Newell!

The Valley Irrigator recently put on an indoor garage sale in Newell, with all proceeds from booth rentals being donated to the Newell Horizons group!

Horizons members also ran a concession stand during the event.

Newell’s newest bloggers practice their newly learned talents!

Thanks to all who participated at the pancake supper at the Newell Christian Fellowship. Servers and eaters turned out in good form to cook, eat and clean on Saturday, March 1st. The pancake flipper was kept hopping from 5:00 to 7:00 and the kids especially liked the ice cream and cookies. If you missed the occasion, you missed a great time of stuffing faces and catching up on the latest Newell news. The money raised will go to the general fund of the church.

Thanks again to all who participated!

Come join our community blood drive in Newell on Tuesday, March 25 at the NVN Senior Center sponsored by the NVN Ministerial Association.  Sign up to donate at your local church or by calling 456-2544 or email janicarney@hotmail.com.   Sign up early to get the time that works best for you.  The blood drive is from 11:30-6:30 with a staff break from 2:30-3:30.  Thank you to all our faithful donators.  Your participation is greatly appreciated!

Join us for FREE family fun!

March 15, 2008

Easter Egg Hunt

Ham Bingo

Bake Walk

FREE Food

Fun for EVERYONE!

The Easter Egg Hunt will begin at the Middle School at 11 am–after all of the eggs are found, we’ll head to the Newell City Hall for lunch and oodles of fun!

Please join us!

Learn to blog - TONIGHT!

At 5pm and 7pm at the Newell Public Library Horizons members will be on hand to teach you how to use the Newell blog. From setting up a free email account, basic web navigation to commenting and even posting your own blogs entries! It’s free, daycare and transportation are available if needed. So stop on by!

Horizons was planning a Family Fun Night for tomorrow night, but have decided to postpone it and hold it in conjunction with the Community Club Easter Egg Hunt on March 15th!  Watch for more details to come in emails and in the paper!  We hope you’ll join us that day for Easter Egg hunting, Ham Bingo, a Bake Walk (Cakes and more) and FREE FOOD!

Here’s a few pictures from the 5th Grade’s Enterprise Fair held in the MS Gym yesterday. Look for an upcoming article in the Valley Irrigator on this talented class of entrepreneurs!

The Newell 5th graders have been working on a graded project lately - they have each come up with a handmade product they will be selling during during the Science Fair on Tuesday the 26th in the MSGym. Each students has made expense reports, learned about advertising and worked hard on their product - come see what they’ve got to offer - and don’t forget to bring a few dollars!