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Make sure you make it down to Newell City Hall on Thursday, as the annual Field and Home Happenings will be taking place. Community Club is sponsoring a free lunch, there will be musical entertainment, various booths, and demonstrations or enter your craft in an open class and win a prize!
Parents Who Care are working to raise money for post prom events. They will be selling Irrigator hoodies for $30 each during tonights BBB game that starts at 5pm tonight in AA. For more info contact Mrs. Shaykett or Mrs. Waterland.
To meet requirements that can earn us free technology the blog must answer a few questions each month. Comment below or post your own blog and answer a question! The more input the better!!! I answered one to get us started….
Category 10: Building skills and mobilizing around community
How has your community changed since joining Horizons?Is your community more hopeful about the future? How do you know?
What evidence do you have that community members see poverty as a community issue?
Are more people involved in creating ideas, plans and taking actions on behalf of the community? What difference does this make?
What new partnerships have been created (within your community, or between your community and others)? Horizons has partnered with the city during the last clean up day, and then with Community Club for the annual Santa Day. Those are just two examples of the efforts Horizons has made to partner with exsisting groups within the community of Newell.
On the right hand side bar under pages you’ll notice a new option called TAKE A POLL! Here is where all past (yet still relevant) polls are in one handy to vote on and read page! If you haven’t checked out the results in a while, or forgot to vote - take a few minutes to look at this new added feature.
Four School Boards seats are up for election this year. Starting March 1st interested individuals may obtain a petition from the Newell Schools Business Office, petitions MUST be returned by March 25th at 4pm.
One of the many services that the Newell Public Library offers includes a Book Club! Free of charge and open to anyone, this club meets once a month in the Library at 7pm to discuss the book of the month.
February’s book is Old Deadwood Days by Estelline Bennett, the club will meet on February 18th.
To obtain a complete list of upcoming books, contact the NP Librarian Glynda Smith at 456-2179 during Library hours or email the library at NewellLibrary@yahoo.com
Library Hours
Monday 2-6pm
Tues - Friday 1:30-5pm
WRCTC is offering a $500 scholarship to NHS Seniors, applications are being accepted until March 31. To obtain an application contact Connie Humble (Guidance Counselor) or go to www.westrivertel.coop
On Saturday, February 2nd at the NVN center from 5-7pm enjoy a pancake supper sponsored by the Senior Center and Newell Lions Club. This is part of an annual membership drive and bake sale I’ve been told!
Horizons had a nice break for the Holiday season. Now it’s time to get going again. We are having a meeting on Jan. 26th at 10:00 a.m. at TJ’s Cafe. We are asking the steering committee,strategic planning committee, and all committee members to attend. We will be getting an update of progress made, things that need done yet, resources needed and any other information that Carolyn has to share with us. Please plan to attend. Daycare is provided! Contact Amanda Keller or Julie VanDerBoom for more information.
Whether you have a few extra dollars in your pocket or equipment and/or hands that are willing to pitch in and work, the Town of Nisland is looking for you. They are working hard to raise funds to match a grant that will help them to restore the Grandstand and other areas of the Butte/Lawrence Co. Fairgrounds. For more info email them at townofnisland@sdplains.com
The Church Release program sponsored by Newell Christian Fellowship Church is slated to begin again at the end of the month. They welcome any child from K-5th grade to attend, the program is held once a week during school hours. For more information contact Sean or Jani Carney.
It’s that time again…Newell City Council will meet at Newell City Hall on Wednesday, January 9th at 7pm for their regular scheduled meeting.
Nisland Town Board will also meet on Wednesday, January 9th at the Nisland Town Hall at 7:30pm for their regular meeting.
Be active in your town government - attend the meetings!
It was reported recently that our local Cub Scouts led by Jim & Tricia Anderson and Kurt Olson recently took part in the Care and Share Food Drive. Between the Newell and Nisland area the scouts were able to collect approximately 500 pounds of food. Newell’s Food Pantry was the receipent of all the generously donated items.
Way to go SCOUTS!!
Horizon’s offers Regional Seminar #1
REGIONAL COLLABORATIONS & COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS
Mon. Jan. 28, 2008
Mitchell Technical Institute, 6:30 pm
Click below for more information on this event
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!
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.
Click below to see more detailed results from this poll
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.
