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!

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!

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!

 Join us for our annual Good Friday Service presented by the combined churches of the Newell Assembly of God and Newell Christian Fellowship churches.  Our service this year will be held at Newell Christian Fellowship Friday, March 21 at 7:00 p.m.  We are located at the corner of Elmira Avenue and 4th Street.  Refreshments will be served following.   The combined choirs of the two churches will perform as well as a message presented by Pastor Nathan Keller of the Newell Assembly of God. 

Any questions? Please call Pastor Sean Carney at 456-2544, carneyquartet@sdplains.com or Pastor Nathan Keller at 456-2121.

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!

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.

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!

More questions - I answered one, I’m hoping others will chime in too! We need your input and participation. 

Category 3: Taking action on poverty

What kinds of concrete steps are being taken by your community to address poverty? I think one of the steps I’ve seen taken are the massive clean up efforts, helping those who either can’t physically or monetarily manage to get junk off their property has made a noticable change in the astetics in town. Cleaning up empty lots, then seeing other property owners follow suite and demolish old junk houses and in turn a nice new residence and family that either are building houses or move houses on to the cleaned up lot is nice to see. We’ve got a great little town, its nice to see folks unite to help out their neighbors.

How did your community make choices about the actions most likely to have an impact on poverty?

How are low income involved?

How does your plan for poverty reduction link with existing leaders, groups and organizations?

What other partnership will help your community carry out its poverty reduction plan?

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.

There are various committtees being formed in Newell to help research and develop plans to improve our city. Horizons needs your involvement to help better our town. Below is a list of committees; if you can be involved please call 456-2121 or simply leave a blog post under this blog.

City Signs/Street Signs
Centennial Planning
Beautification
Community Center
Assisted Living
Economic Development

The annual DADS (Dads are Doing Stories) Reading Night drew a good sized group of fathers and children spending quality time together reading books in the Newell High School Library. With insanely cold wind chills, it was neat to see so many make the night a priority!

Sunday the Newell City Hall was full of Scouts and handmade cars, the annual Derby netted a large group of spectators that cheered on their favorite cars.

Newell Cub Scouts is for children in first through fifth grade, if interested in joining or learning more contact Kurt Olson (Cub Master).

Saturday’s Benefit for Ramona Voeltz who lost her house in a fire earlier this week was well attended. A pancake feed, silent auction and bake sale were offered.

YOU can help! 

The Newell Lions Club has organized a benefit pancake feed for Ramona Voeltz who recently lost her home in a fire. On Saturday, Janauary 19th from 5-7pm at the NVN Center enjoy a meal, partake in the silent auction and buy some baked goodies to take home and enjoy all weekend.

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.