Community Action Forum December 8th, 2008

Over 32 Deer Park community members met at the Senior Center for the Horizons Action Forum.

Pizza from West Side Pizza was served and several ideas on how to make Deer Park a better community were talked about. Most of the participants have been involved with the study circles and contributed to the large lists which included social services, family resources, business resources and many other community resources to help improve poverty in the area. Voted on from the study circle lists and other suggestions of the group were action projects that could be done feasibly in a short length of time.

#1. Start and maintain a Deer Park Youth Help training program. Example- Babysitting Class.

#2. Gather records of community resources and activities.

#3. Get a community Bulletin Board to post the Deer Park Activities and Resource List.


The Horizons Deer Park Blog was talked about by Sidney Coyle and Dusty Finafrock and cards were given out to encourage the people to visit and participate on the blogspot.

PR and Blog Training in Spokane

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Public Relations and Blog Training in Spokane

What we learned at Horizons PR Advanced Training

This photo is from a communications training session held in Spokane, Washington at WSU. We learned a lot at this session, including how to:

• Insert photos
• Create 72 resolution photo headers with text on them
• Access free photo editing software online
• Organize our posts with labels that show on
• the sidebar
• Create links by highlighting text and using the link tool
• Use gadgets and widgets
• Understand differences between Content
• Management Systems and Blog Systems
• Use blogger.com for organizing large amounts of information
• Create horizontal links on blogger.com
• Use Wordpress.com for a home base environment, especially to load documents/pdfs