Coeur d’Alene Reservation, ID

Sponsored by Youth Activities
Attend the 3-on-3 Kick Butts Tournament (April 2nd) and the Juggling Workshop (April 3rd) and Receive a $15 AMC Movie Pass! For more info call Rachel 686-9355 ext. 456
Tom Sparough performs at the Wellness Center Gym, Plummer ID, April 3rd, 2008
Middle School Students 9am-noon and High School Students 1-4 p.m.

www.spacepainter.com Tom Sparough, professional juggler and storyteller, will lead two dynamic hands-on sessions for middle school and high school youth. All of life is perspective. Come to one of these sessions to get the juggler’s perspective. EVERYONE who comes will get in on the act. How many plates do you spin in your life? Have you found your balance point? Can you handle what others toss to you? These sessions will be fun, fast-paced, and a chance to work with one of the nation’s top performers for youth.

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The Western Benewah Ministerial Fellowship extends an invitation to everyone in Plummer and its surrounding area, to join together as a community to celebrate the events that has had greater impact on human history than any other –the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Messiah. Sunday, March 23, 2008 at Lakeside High School Gymnasium 9:00 a.m. Breakfast of pastries, fruit, coffee, hot chocolate, and juice 10:00 a.m. Easter Service

Western Benewah Ministerial Fellowship includes: Plummer Bible Church, Plummer Assembly of God, Living Water Ministries, and Christian Life Fellowship

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As most of you probably know, JoAnn Brown-Sonder has been hospitalized since March 7 for congestive heart failure. (Baby Archer is doing fine). The doctors say this is extremely rare at her young age. She has responded well to the medication (her heart is now pumping at 25% instead of 12% - although it is supposed to be at 55% as I understand it) and they are now allowing her to walk around the hallways, whereas before she was only allowed to get out of bed to go to the bathroom. JoAnn is scheduled for surgery Thursday morning (March 20) for the doctors to put in a defibulator. I do not know how much longer she will be in the hospital. Needless to say, expenses are piling up for the family, due in part to the high price of gasoline.

The Lakeside Boosters are coordinating a benefit Spaghetti dinner on March 28, 2008, at the Longhouse in Worley, beginning at 4:30 p.m. and going until we run out of food. Price will be $5 per plate for spaghetti, salad, French bread, dessert, and a drink. Donations will also be accepted. We will be scheduling shifts for people to help cook on the 28th, and to serve, and do cleanup at the end. Please contact Mindy Parker if you want to volunteer to work.

Food donations can be made through the following people:

Lakeside High School – Dawn Sifford – 686-2158
Lakeside Middle School – Sherry Chapman – 686-2204
Lakeside Elementary – Mindy Parker – 686-2117
CDA Tribe – Chris Dohrman – 686-6106.
(We have already received 10 pounds of burger from Dale Johnson)

The Dahlby’s, Joseph and Joyce, Alder Creek home was destroyed in a fire in January and the elderly couple lost everything. Donations of household items, kitchen goods, bedding, furniture, etc. to help the couple establish their home will be accepted. To donate contact Sandy at 245-1341

Tom Agte will be celebrating his 80th birthday at the Senior Center/American Legion Hall, Plummer ID on March 15th from 2-9pm. More information contact Joan Pilgrim-Agte at 208-582-2213 or appyjoan@aol.com
No gifts please - only stories.

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) is an IRS certified program that can help prepare your income tax return for the following:
• 1040 EZ – 1040 A (with schedule 1, 2, 3, & EIC)
• 1040 (with schedule (A, B, EIC & R) – 1040 V
• 1040 ES – 2441 (Child and Dependant care credit)
• 8863 (Education credit)
• 8812 (Add. Child Tax credit)

Assistance will be provided on a first come, first served basis, no appointment necessary.
All sessions will be held at the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s Information Technology Center and are open to the public. The program is being sponsored by the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, University of Idaho, and Red-Spectrum Communications.

DATES:
• February 16, 2008 10 am to 1 pm
• CANCELLED March 1, 2008 10 am to 1 pm
• March 29, 2008 10 am to 1 pm
• April 12, 2008 10 am to 1 pm

Coeur d’Alene Tribal member John Daniels will be volunteering his time to teach beginners Arts and Crafts to area youth every Tuesday and Thursday from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Tribal Social Services Office on P Street in Plummer. His goal is to get the kids interested in traditional crafts, teach skills that they can be proud of, and provide them with something to do with their time.

Start up materials were donated by the Wellness Center. Shawl material, shawl fringe, beads, bones and other craft items are needed. If you have materials to donate, please call Julian Mathews at 686-1800.

Lakeside High School hosting a blood drive TODAY 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Contact the high school for more information 686-1937

I just wanted to update everyone and let you know I have since found a wonderful sitter for my boys. She is truly a blessing to us!

Can you imagine losing everything you own? That is what I tried to do Tuesday night. Everything. It was devastating to just think about it. Linda and Delbert Zurcher are living it. They lost their home recently to a fire and have no insurance to replace it.

I spoke to Linda at the spaghetti dinner that was held to help them out after their loss. Her positive attitude impressed me. She told her story about jumping out into a snow bank with only the clothes she was wearing. No shoes. No coat. All that is left for her are memories and ashes. Delbert adds burns to his list of what remains.

Linda is looking forward to replacing their home in the spring and has a picture to start a new collection of household belongings. A community member gave her a framed photograph of two Australian Shepherds previously purchased from the Zurchers. This gift was more than a picture. It became obvious that it touched her heart when Linda spoke of her dogs and showed off the picture, now the only one she has to commemorate this memory.

The dinner brought some much needed cash to the Zurchers who are currently living with their son. Once the snow melts and their house replaced, more community support will be needed to help add other belongings to that picture in creating a new home.

A spaghetti feed will be held on Tuesday February 5th to raise money for Delbert and Linda Zurcher who recently lost thier home and all belongings in a devastating fire. The dinner will begin at 4 pm at the American Legion Hall in Plummer. Please contact Anna Marie Willard or Kathy Kolar for information.

There will be a Horizons Action Teams meeting on February 4th at the Tribal Wellness Center in Plummer, from 5:00 to 8:00. A dinner will be served by the Lakeside High School Senior class (mmm… lasagna… yummy!!)
This meeting is for all four action teams to work on shoring up their schedules after a nice holiday break, and to make sure each team is fully aware of each others’ plans. We also would like to make sure that new people who may not have had a chance to get involved in the past can join in this year’s activities! Call the Extension Office, 686-1716, with any questions.

Hi! My name is Leslie and I am the Office Manager for Red-Spectrum Communications. I will be doing my best to keep you informed of what is going on on the Reservation regarding the technical side via Red-Spectrum. We will be starting some really fun classes soon that are free and open to the public. We are still finalizing the schedule but as soon as it is completed I will post it here. Classes will include music and video editing, digital art and scrapbooking, basic internet searching skills and email accounts, and E Commerce. Our goal is to make sure that everyone on the reservation will learn and utilize computer skills to help connect them to the world and furthur their education and careers.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at lzahir@cdatribe-nsn.gov or 208-686-1164.

The Action Teams all presented their work plans verbally at the Community Breakfast November 29th. Complete work plans are available as separate pages to the right.

Life Long Learning will be focusing on building and strengthening educational programs for all ages, increasing the proportion of graduates from the High School, defining a process for identifying factors that contribute to dropping out of school, establishing a career program with job sahdowing, internship and visitation experiences for high school students to explore the many career opportunities in the communities, passage of bonds for the construction of a new school and library, and providing a continuous learning clearing house through establishing connections with local universities, community and technical colleges and through establishing a format for visiting speakers. Basically, they would like to increase level of optimism and appreciation within the local communities through involvement in educational activities.

Communication and Leadership will be working to improve communications by promoting the blog as a useful informational tool, hosting informal gatherings for leaders to build relationships, exploring options for a formal leadership group that would encompass all of the entities, starting a cooperative project of a non-controversial nature to foster working together, and trying to determine the most effective way to provide communication. They hope to have an impact on reducing poverty by building strong community leaders who make more efficient use of resources through cooperative efforts.

Community Vitality

Community Pride

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS!!!!!!! Training for volunteers will be held from 8:15 to 9:00
a.m. this day.

This major event is being held for approximately 500 high school
students from schools located in Moscow up to Bonners Ferry and surrounding area, including Lakeside High School in Plummer.

The University of Idaho is sponsoring and the Idaho Council on Economic Education is very involved in this event. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS!!!!!!! We would like volunteers representing the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, Coeur d’Alene Casino and Horizon Community Volunteers. The International
Economic Summit is a global trading simulation that is full of excitement, creativity and competition as nearly 100 high school teams representing various countries work aggressively to better the economic situation of their country. Teams are also working to improve the world
addressing many issues such as, pollution, deforestation, AIDS and human trafficking. In order for the Summit to be successful the event requires 45 community volunteers to assist in score keeping, bankers, summit monitors, registration, etc. Training and lunch will be provided. If you can help recruit volunteers please have them email me at jamie.k.olson@wellsfargo.com or call me at (208) 819-3977 with contact information and I will forward that information to Heidi Rogers, U of I whom is helping to coordinate this event. The particulars are as follows:

Northern Idaho International Economic Summit
Coeur d’Alene Casino and Event Center
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
8:15 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Training for volunteers from 8:15 to 9:00 a.m.

Jamie K. Olson
VP Senior Business Relationship Manager
Coeur d’Alene Business Banking
301 E. Sherman Avenue 2nd Floor
Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814
(208) 769-1019 - Office
(208) 819-3977 - Cell
(208) 769-1006 - Fax
jamie.k.olson@wellsfargo.com

For further information or to RSVP
for an event please contact:

Meri Joswiak
Horizons Program Assistant
merijoz@uidaho.edu

208-885-8949
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Non-Profits that Work
Kay Sohl, Executive Director of Technical
Assistance For Community Services (TACS)

December 6, 2007 9am-3pm
Grangeville, ID–Super 8 Meeting Room

December 7, 2007 9am-3pm
Plummer, ID–Tribal Wellness Center

Learn how you can strengthen your nonprofit organization, rest easy that you are providing effective direction and oversight for its work, and increase the resources your nonprofit brings to your community.
For more information about the training
and Kay Sohl.
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Building Social Capital: Connecting
Newcomers and Locals to Strengthen
Community
Lynette Flage, Community Leadership
Development Specialist, North Dakota State
University Extension

January 15, 2008 9am-3pm
Grangeville, ID–Super 8 Meeting Room

January 16, 2008 9am-3pm
Plummer, ID–Tribal Wellness Center

How does a community assist those that have recently moved in to become engaged, feel at home and connected to this new place? A community with ample social capital will be able to do just that as they make newcomers feel connected and welcome.
For more information about the training and
Lynette Flage.
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Idaho Horizons Community/Partnership Summit

January 23, 2008 9am-3pm
Worley, ID–Coeur d’Alene Tribal Longhouse

January 24, 2008 9am-3pm
Grangeville, ID–Elks Lodge

The Idaho Horizons Community/Partnership Summit is an exciting and interactive opportunity to connect our Horizons communities with potential partners. We hope that the partnerships made during this summit will provide communities with valuable resources for completing their action items, as well as offer attending organizations the chance to develop and expand upon their services to rural
Idaho communities.

The Summit will include presentations by the Horizons communities on their action items and community visions, as well as guided networking sessions to connect the partners and commmunities. The community presentations will not only give the other Horizons communities, but partnering organizations as well, an idea of the upcoming work that will be done in the region.
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So You Want to Build a Community Center?
Craig Smith, Rural Development Initiatives, Oregon

February 26 and 27, 2008
1 day sessions in 2 locations (TBA)
Check back soon for more details.
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Entrepreneurial Boot Camp Series
March/April 2008
4-three hour sessions to be offered in 3 different locations
Check back soon for more details.
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Mobilizing Your Community
David Beurle, Innovative Leadership Australia

March/April 2008
1 day sessions in 2 locations (TBA)
Check back soon for more details.
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Specialized Marketing for Entrepreneurs
April 2008
1 day session in 2 locations (TBA)
Check back soon for more details.
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Internet Business/E-Commerce
Western Rural Development Center (WRDC)

May 2008
2 day session in Moscow, Idaho
Check back soon for more details.
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Grantwriting Training
Dates and Location(s) pending
Check back soon for more details.
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To help with medical costs for Ashlyn Sheridan (Courtney Bierce’s daughter)
$5.00 a plate Includes spaghetti, salad and French bread

Thursday, November 29th from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Wellness Center

The Energy Fair was great fun and everyone involved hopes to make it an annual event. Although the attendance was small, those who went left with their arms full. Compact flourescent lights were the big give away with people receiving a total of nine from various vendors. Shower heads, shower timers, thermometers, and lots of literature were also given away. Drawings for numerous doorprizes such as 5 gallon tanks of propane, LED Christmas lights, night lights, smoke detectors and much more added to the excietment.

You are invited to a Community Thanksgiving Celebration, Tuesday, November 20 at the Fort Sherman Chapel on the North Idaho College Campus. The event will begin at 7pm.

This will be an inter-faith celebration with the sharing of writings, prayers and music from a variety of faiths and cultures. It is an opportunity for the community to come together and express thanks for all the blessings we have received. The celebration is informal and there will be no offering. We are encouraging those coming to bring non-perishable food items for the local food bank.

The program is sponsored by “Diakonia” the area inter-faith group.
Questions? Please call 664-5410

The second Community Coalition Breakfast will be held Thursday, November 29th at 7:00 am at the Rose Creek Longhouse in Worley.  Community leaders from the public sector, private businesses, and community organizations are invited to come together to build relationships and share information.

Representatives from the four Horizons Action Teams will present their respective work plans to the group.