Estelline, SD

What do you think of having the SD sanctioned chili cook-off in Estelline?  It is one of the ideas that came up after the Tues. meeting.

Who would like a job in Estelline?  Can you help us find a  Farmers Market manager (every Friday night for 18 weeks and promotions time), and a unit director (full time) and a part time staff person to serve a Boys and Girls Club.   Here are three new jobs for Estelline — exciting      YES!     Job descriptions need to be developed: can you help?

We also need leadership help for getting the Club going.  So speak up if you could help out with working or giving ideas.   Contact Tonya Williams.

SDSU Cooperative Extension Service and our community coordinator popped the question  –HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO CELEBRATE  — achieving intermediate Horizons goals?  After mid July sometime they’ll provide the cake and funds!! Whoooopeee!!!!

April 15th we mulled it over a bit and thought a party on Friday in conjunction with Farmers Market would be good.  What do you think?

And “thank yous” to Northwest Area Foundation, and SDSU,and CES staff, and especially the always cheerful Cheryl Jacobs, our coordinator.

A burst of April get togethers — getting prepared for summer!

9th    Grant writing,  school cafeteria 6:30- 8pm

14th   Farmers’ Mkt committee  school cafeteria  6-6:20pm followed by Garden committee 6:30- 8:30pm

15th   Strategic Planning  east room Trails’ Edge  6:30-8:30pm

16th   Green Group meets to discuss spring cleanup etc.    school cafeteria  6:00-6:20pm followed by

16th   Grant writing   school cafeteria  6:30-8pm

Friday evenings 4-7pm starting June 20, 2008, Estelline Horizons will sponsor vendors of produce and flowersand crafts from those things, eggs, poultry, and (if we can locate and use a community commercial kitchen) value-added produce and baked goods.  Location provided by the Estelline Coop Grain Co is the site of the aluminum recycling trailer at the south end of Main Street.  Rules and Regulations, and Vendor Applications for the market were defined by the committee and will be available in print format soon.  Persons who grow their own materials within a 100 mile distance of town are qualified to participate.   A manager for the Market is needed still. 

Readers of the Estelline Blog–please notice that the right-hand bar now contains links to the minutes of the Horizons Executive Committee meetings (in Microsoft Word).

Let’s get the ‘letterhead’ on our site to the gazebo photos on our Strategic Plan.  Cyndi and David have the file and have been eager to share. 

Also, can we gear up for grant writing and have some materials ready to work on March 22?    

The Welcome Wagon subcommittee has had several meetings to get started on putting a Welcome Wagon together for our area.  They are now looking for businesses and area groups that wish to get their information out to new residents in our area.  Please  contact Lisa Loomis at 873-2261 with questions on how to be part of this program.  If you need to develop some promotional materials for your business, help will be available to create flyers, coupons, etc.

 I do not know if anyone else put the crew up that completed the Leadership Plenty Series last fall with the “Can Do” T-shirts but I have one to share with the group!  Again, since I attended the blog traning, I am trying to catch up by sharing some photos. 

I learned how to blog this week at the blog training in Estelline from Cheryl and am sharing photos of the group that attended the program last September in Huron.   Harvey was part of the panel discussion of communities attending and represented the Estelline Horizons group extremely well.

The next monthly meeting of the Estelline Area Horizons will be Tuesday March 18th at 6:30 p.m., at the Trails Edge.  Everyone is invited to hear updates on current projects or to become involved in various projects or bring forth ideas.  Monthly meetings are scheduled for the 3rd Tuesday of each month.  Please plan on attending.  For further information, please feel free to contact David Ebbers at davide@reliabank.com or 873-2261.