Horizons group and anyone interested in Horizons come to the next meeting on Monday June 8Th at 5:00 pm.
Place of meeting :DEER PARK LIBRARY
We will discuss information on where the Deer Park Horizons is going with the committees and surveys/contests etc.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Kiosk Committee Tues 1 pm, Deer Park Senior Center
The Kiosk Committee for Horizons III Deer Park Area community project meets Tuesday May 26 at 1 p.m. at the Deer Park Senior Center, lower level of the city hall. Thanks for your continuing support for this project.
DEER PARK HORIZONS POSTER/ESSAY CONTEST AND SURVEYS
The surveys have been placed at the elementary schools in Riverside and Chattaroy and they have a poster contest going on. The Deer Park High School is participating with the Seniors filling out the surveys and involved in an essay contest.
Churches are being contacted and preschools as well. People are filling them out at the Deer Park Chamber when they have a few minutes at the counter and some of the senior citizen apartments and the Deer Park Senior Center are being asked to participate in the surveys.
A group represented Horizons at the Deer Park City Council meeting and updated the Council as to what is going on with Horizons and talked about the surveys.
The school surveys are to be back by the end of the month so the Deer Park Horizons group can decide who the poster and essay winners are.
Read more about the winners on the blog later!
Churches are being contacted and preschools as well. People are filling them out at the Deer Park Chamber when they have a few minutes at the counter and some of the senior citizen apartments and the Deer Park Senior Center are being asked to participate in the surveys.
A group represented Horizons at the Deer Park City Council meeting and updated the Council as to what is going on with Horizons and talked about the surveys.
The school surveys are to be back by the end of the month so the Deer Park Horizons group can decide who the poster and essay winners are.
Read more about the winners on the blog later!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
August 15-19: School Gardens
Building the classroom connections from the soil to the table. For teachers, administrators, parents, or volunteers who are wanting to start a school garden or evolve their present garden: We will explore regional support networks, curriculum and essential learning requirements, basics of gardening, food safety, small livestock, and the kitchen connection. $355 per person (tuition includes food and lodging)
http://quillisascut.com/farm-school/school-gardens/
Quillisascut School Garden workshop for school teachers, administrators, parents, or volunteers who are wanting to start a school garden or evolve their present garden: We will explore how planting a garden can feed us healthy foods as well as save the Earth, how composting closes the loop in our farm to table cycle, and how we can learn from ‘Natures Operating System’ and the simple joy of putting ourselves back in the garden circle.
Building Regional Networks that Support School Gardens: Speaker from Puget Sound School Garden Collective will explain how their organization has evolved and some of the highs and lows of garden projects. Examples of challenges that have come up and how they are being resolved.
How to get started (planting the seed and breaking ground) Gardens come in all shapes and sizes some are on asphalt, or rooftops and others look more like traditional gardens. (slide show of regional school gardens)
How to of basic gardening (composting, direct seeding, transplanting) These will be taught using existing school garden curriculum so participants will get a feel for the process as well as examples on how to teach these topics.
Integrating small livestock ( honeybees and chickens)
Bringing it into the kitchen: the flip side of growing produce is how to handle it properly, food-safety (food born hazards) and how to prepare it into a nutritious and tasty meal.
Examples of Filling Essential Learning requirements with garden curriculum: Health, nutrition, reading, writing, art, social studies, culture, science, and math. Garden journaling filled with images- essays- feathers-artwork.
Gardens and food as carriers of culture. Themed gardens with herbs and plants from different cuisines. Asian, Italian, Mexican.
http://quillisascut.com/farm-school/school-gardens/
Quillisascut School Garden workshop for school teachers, administrators, parents, or volunteers who are wanting to start a school garden or evolve their present garden: We will explore how planting a garden can feed us healthy foods as well as save the Earth, how composting closes the loop in our farm to table cycle, and how we can learn from ‘Natures Operating System’ and the simple joy of putting ourselves back in the garden circle.
Building Regional Networks that Support School Gardens: Speaker from Puget Sound School Garden Collective will explain how their organization has evolved and some of the highs and lows of garden projects. Examples of challenges that have come up and how they are being resolved.
How to get started (planting the seed and breaking ground) Gardens come in all shapes and sizes some are on asphalt, or rooftops and others look more like traditional gardens. (slide show of regional school gardens)
How to of basic gardening (composting, direct seeding, transplanting) These will be taught using existing school garden curriculum so participants will get a feel for the process as well as examples on how to teach these topics.
Integrating small livestock ( honeybees and chickens)
Bringing it into the kitchen: the flip side of growing produce is how to handle it properly, food-safety (food born hazards) and how to prepare it into a nutritious and tasty meal.
Examples of Filling Essential Learning requirements with garden curriculum: Health, nutrition, reading, writing, art, social studies, culture, science, and math. Garden journaling filled with images- essays- feathers-artwork.
Gardens and food as carriers of culture. Themed gardens with herbs and plants from different cuisines. Asian, Italian, Mexican.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
MAKE DEER PARK A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE SURVEY
Members of the Deer Park Horizons LeadershipPlenty team met Monday, May 11 with their Horizons Community Coach at the Deer Park City Hall Chamber to devise a plan to get 400 surveys completed by the community.
We will be distributing the surveys to the Greenhouse, local Churches, preschools, chamber, businesses and other locations where people will congregate. In addition, in order to get more feed back by the community members who may be facing different types of poverty issues,
we decided to have a "Grade School Poster" Contest.
The rules will be given to the participants and the"Grade School Poster"
winner of the contest will be featured in the Community Services Brochure.
The "Grade School Poster" CONTEST and the SURVEYS will go to the Deer Park Elementary and the Contest to extend to the Riverside Elementary on approval .
We will be distributing the surveys to the Greenhouse, local Churches, preschools, chamber, businesses and other locations where people will congregate. In addition, in order to get more feed back by the community members who may be facing different types of poverty issues,
we decided to have a "Grade School Poster" Contest.
The rules will be given to the participants and the"Grade School Poster"
winner of the contest will be featured in the Community Services Brochure.
The "Grade School Poster" CONTEST and the SURVEYS will go to the Deer Park Elementary and the Contest to extend to the Riverside Elementary on approval .
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
HORIZONS MEETING
The Horizon Team is having a meeting on Monday, May 11th at 5:00 PM Deer Park City Hall
to discuss ways of getting the surveys out to the public. Please join us if you have any ideas.
to discuss ways of getting the surveys out to the public. Please join us if you have any ideas.
Free Non Profit Training:
FROM MISSION TO MONEY: A Regional Training on Nonprofit “Start-Ups” and Fundraising.
Saturday, May 16th, 8:30am to Noon
Davenport Memorial Hall (511 Park Street)
Davenport, WA
There will be gas cards available through the Horizon program for those who need travel assistance.
Saturday, May 16th, 8:30am to Noon
Davenport Memorial Hall (511 Park Street)
Davenport, WA
There will be gas cards available through the Horizon program for those who need travel assistance.
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